[1] Born in Givatayim to a shoemaker and a housewife, Zamir began acting in children's plays at age 11 and then studied at Thelma Yellin High School.
These include stage adaptations of King Lear, Pied Piper of Hamelin and A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Other Hebrew dubbing roles Zamir performed included the Beast in Beauty and the Beast, John Smith's singing voice in Pocahontas, Hopper in A Bug's Life, Tweedledum and Tweedledee in Alice in Wonderland, Gus in Cinderella, Alan-a-Dale in Robin Hood, Henk in Alfred J. Kwak, Jethro in The Prince of Egypt and more.
In November 1999, Zamir was convicted of sexual and indecent assault towards male students while he was serving as a drama teacher at the Ironi High School.
On 21 December 2011, Zamir died after suffering from complications from diabetes mellitus at the age of 48 and was laid to rest at Kiryat Shaul Cemetery in Tel Aviv.