Rasoul Najafian (Persian: رسول نج٠یان‎; born in 1952 in
Tehran) is an Iranian actor, director, and singer.Rasoul Najafian was
born in 1952 in Tehran. Although he studied psychology at the
university, his passion was art. He learned the theory and practice of
music with masters like Mehrtash. He also studied acting and directing
for four years with Mostafa Oskouei and later became his assistant.He
started his acting career by playing small roles in plays produced and
directed by Oskouei. He directed the play Sisyphe et la mort written
by Robert Merle in 1973. The next year his short film Papoli Jan won
the first prize of the ABU Asian Film Festival. In 1975 he took an
adaptation of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment to the stage. His
first work as a director on Television was The Elevator (1983),
written by Hossein Panahi. Playing the role of Amir Nejati, caught in
the governmental bureaucracy, in this piece brought Najafian fame and
for many years people recalled him by that name. In the sixties he and
Panahi collaborated in writing and directing many tele-theaters such
as Flower and Spring (1984),Two Ducks in the Mist (1985), American
Style (1986), Like a Smile (1991). He was one of the writers of one of
the most popular television series in Iran Ziba Barbershop (1994)
directed by Marzieh boroumand. He adapted Chekhov's short stories for
tele-theater in 1989 and directed them for channel 2. Rasoul Najafian Top Movies & Young Movies