Mini biography

Parviz Kardan(October 29, 1937 - June 10, 2021)

Parviz Kardan (born 1937 in Shiraz) graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts of Tehran University and television director from UK.

Parviz Kardan is a highly respected and revered Iranian cinema legend, director, comedian and playwright. He is known as the crown prince of Iranian comedy as well as being a powerful dramatic actor.

Many Iranian actors attribute Parviz as their inspiration. Prior to the Iranian Revolution, Parviz Kardan did numerous command performances for the late Shah of Iran.

Parviz has performed in over 30 Persian plays throughout Los Angeles in the past 25 years.

His artistic career began with TV shows in 1959 and continued with playing in the theater scene.

His first screen credit was in 1971 with directing and playing in the movie Amu Yadegar.

His first TV experience was "Sarkar Ostvar", an old comic series of national iranian TV. Most of the parts of this series Kardan was written and directed by Kardan himself and was shown once a week for people who watched it eagerly and in summer time they watched it again.

The deceased Abdolali Homayun played the leading role of Sarkar Ostvar. A rural police officer from an unknown part of the country was good at catching the criminals by using some intelligent methods he called "Sarkar Ostvarian politics".

Many characters created in this TV series later became a movie and television subject itself.

The most famous type was Samad Agha played by Parviz Sayyad and Karamali Khan and Morad Barghi played by Kardan himself.

Then he makes "Khaneh be Doush" a tv series based on Morad Barghi, a character from "Sarkar Ostvar" that became very popular amomg people in those years...

Filmography

Actor

1976 Marde Avval (TV series)
1974 Morad barghi o haft dokhtaroon
1973-1975  Morad Barghi (TV series)
1972 Shir-too-shir
1971 Amoo Yadegar
1971 Ghesse-ye derakht-e holoo (short)
1971 Shab-e eyd, Shab-e 851, Yek shab az hezar o yek shab (Short)

Director

1971 Amoo Yadegar
1974 Morad barghi o haft dokhtaroon
1976 Marde Avval (TV series)

Director - Selected filmography

1. Mard-e avval (1976, TV Mini Series)
   
2. Morad barghi o haft dokhtaroon (1974)
   
3. Amoo Yadegar (1971)