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Filmmaker · Iran

Ovanes Ohanian

Died in 1961

Ovanes Ohanian was born in 1896, in Mashhad, in the Caucasus or in Ashgabat, according to the contradictory accounts he gave of his life. He claimed to have trained at the Moscow film school. Arriving in Tehran in 1929, he taught at the police school and in 1930 founded the country's first school for film actors. After a long stay in India, he returned to Tehran under the name of Reza Mojdeh, treated baldness with remedies of his own invention, claimed to be an inventor of aeroplanes and died in Tehran in 1961.

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