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Filmmaker · Iran

Bahram Beyzai

Died in 2025

Bahram Beyzai was born in Tehran on 26 December 1938, son of the poet Nematollah Beyzai, in a family that included several poets. A playwright before being a filmmaker, he saw one of his plays performed in Paris as early as 1963, published in 1965 an authoritative history of Iranian theatre and headed the department of dramatic arts at the University of Tehran, which he had to leave after the revolution. Censored or banned, he left in 2010 to teach at Stanford and died in Palo Alto on 26 December 2025, on his eighty-seventh birthday.

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