Jamshid Mashayekhi (Persian: جمشید مشایخی, November 26, 1934 – April 2, 2019)[1] was an Iranian actor.
His first feature film role was Brick and Mirror (1965, Ebrahim Golestan).
After a four-year break, he acted in The Cow (1969, Darius Mehrjui) and Qeysar (1969, Masoud Kimiai).
Mashayekhi commonly appeared as an elderly grandfather because of his white hair and charismatic face and figure.
He received a best performance award for The Grandfather (1985, Majid Gharizadeh) from the First Festival of Non-aligned Countries in North Korea.