Ezzatollah Moghbeli (March 24, 1933 - January 2, 1989) was an Iranian actor and dubbing artist.

Ezzatollah Moghbeli was born on March 24, 1933 in Tehran. He started his artistic activity in 1945 as a theater actor in children's club.

As an actor he experienced the theatre stage by performing in "Blue Bird". Then he appeared in other plays, among which are "Social Parasite", "The Merchant of Venice", "Oliver Twist", "Youth Medicine", "A Flower and Spring", etc.

He started dubbing in 1956. As a voice-over actor, he mostly voiced Oliver Hardy and Louis de Funès.
Moghbeli's voice matched Hardy's character so much that later, after Moghbeli's death, other dubbers were never able to erase the mentality of Moghbeli's voice from the minds of television viewers.

Presenting the type of sweet-talking and light-hearted old men, including that of Walter Brennan in "To Have and Have Not", "Red River", "Rio Bravo", "How the West Was Won"; And Walter Houston in "Treasures of Sierra Madre" is one of his other successful and memorable performances.

It can be said without a doubt that Moghbeli's great work of voicing Homayoun in "Topoli" played an important role in forming the character of the film. Also, by lenting his voice to Reza Karam Rezaei in "Beehive" (Kandu), he did one of his best works in the art of dubbing, and it can be said that his efforts as a voice-over artist played an undeniable role in drawing attention to Homayoon and Karam Rezaei's performances in the Sepas film festival.

Simultaneously with dubbing, he started acting in cinema in 1956 with the movie "Devil's Spell" and continued until 1988.

In 1967, with the participation of Nosratollah Vahdat, he founded the dubbing studio "Naghsh Jahan".

His career in radio began in 1967 and he soon became known as a typical radio actor. He also performed in the radio program "Friday Morning with you" for many years.

In the 1970s, he also experienced directing on television with the series "Gozare Omr".

His son, Masoud Moghbeli, born in 1962, was arrested at the age of nineteen for being a supporter of an Iranian antirevolutionary political organisation, and was executed in the summer of 1988, while he was waiting for being released soon. A few months later, on January 13, 1988, Maghbeli died due to a heart attack in Paris at the age of 55. After being transferred to Iran on Wednesday, January 20, 1988, his body was buried in Tehran's Behesht Zahra cemetery.


Selected filmography

Actor

1988         The Suitcase
1977         Feri Dast Ghashang
1977         The Newly-Wed Bride
1976         Madar Joonam Aashegh Shode som Jafar
1971         Ayyoob som Abdollah
1966         Hashem Khan
1965         Sheitune bala
1961         The Hundred Kilo Bridegroom