Azar Hekmat Shoar

Azar Hekmat Shoar
آذر حکمت شعار
Born	Azar Taj Dehghani Azar 1935 Tabriz, Imperial State of Persia
Died	1974 Tehran, Iran
Burial place	Behesht-e Zahra

Azar Hekmat Shoar (Persian: آذر حکمت شعار; née Azar Taj Dehghani Azar; 1935–1974) was an Iranian actress of cinema and theatre. She appeared in some 20 Iranian films in the 1960s.

Biography

Azar Hekmat Shoar was born as Azar Taj Dehghani Azar in 1935 in Tabriz, Imperial State of Persia.[1] Her acting career began in 1958 in the Iranian theater with the musical Khosrow and Shirin.[1][2] She entered cinema in 1961 by acting in the film, "When the Sun Goes Down" which was never released.[1]

She died in 1974 at the age of 39 in Tehran, due to a car accident.[3] Her younger brother Dariush Dehghani Azar was a high-ranking police officer and commander of the Nima Guard, who was executed in 1983 for conspiracy against the Islamic Republic of Iran.[4]

Filmography

• 1961, The Skint [fa], directed by Siamak Yasemi
• 1962, The Lost Flower [fa], directed by Abbas Shabaviz [fa; azb]
• 1963, The Claw (1963 film) [fa], directed by Amin Amini [fa; azb]
• 1963, Pretty Foe, directed by Esmail Koushan
• 1963, An Angel in My House [fa], directed by Aramais Aghamalian
• 1965, Dead End (1965 film) [fa], directed by Mehdi Mirsamadzadeh [fa]
• 1965, The Stray Hero [fa], directed by Khosrow Parvizi
• 1965, The White Devil (1965 film) [fa], directed by Ahmad Safaei
• 1965, The Bright Horizon [fa], directed by Mehdi Amir Ghasem Khani [fa]
• 1965, The Mummy (1965 film) [fa], directed by Hamid Mojtahedi
• 1966, Leilaj [fa], directed by Iraj Ghaderi
• 1966, Rebellion (1966 film) [fa], directed by Samuel Khachikian
• 1966, Never Without Love [fa], directed by Samuel Khachikian
• 1966, Confess (1966 film) [fa], directed by Naser Rafat [fa]
• 1968, A Glorious Tomorrow [fa], directed by Samad Sabahi [fa]
• 1968, The Sun's Home [fa], directed by Saeed Kamyar [fa; azb][5]
• 1968, The Power of Love (1968 film) [fa], directed by Robert Ekhart and Marduk Alkhas [fa]
• 1968, Separate Beds (film) [fa], directed by Iraj Ghaderi
• 1968, Oath of Silence [fa], directed by Iraj Ghaderi
• 1969, Song in Life [fa], directed by Mehdi Reisfirooz

References

1. Umīd, Jamāl (1988). فرهنگ سينماى ايران: زندگينامۀ كارگردانان، تهيه كنندگان، فيلمنامه نامه نويسان، بازيگران، فيلمبرداران، تدوين كنندگان، أهنگسازان، طاحان صحنه و ... [Iranian Cinema Culture: Biographies of Directors, Producers, Screenwriters, Actors, Cinematographers, Editors, Composers, Stage Masters] (in Persian). نگاه،. p. 85.
2. "آذر حكمت شعار". Soureh Cinema (in Persian). Retrieved 2023-10-17.
3. "آذر حکمت شعار | بیوگرافی + عکس‌ها و فیلم‌ها | سلام‌سینما". Salam Cinema (in Persian). Retrieved 2023-10-17.
4. "داریوش دهقانی آذر" [Dariush Dehghani Azar]. Human Rights and Democracy for Iran (in Persian). Abdul Rahman Broumand Foundation. Archived from the original on 2018-08-16.
5. Cowie, Peter; Elley, Derek (1977). World Filmography: 1967. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 285. ISBN 978-0-498-01565-6.

External links

• Azar Hekmat Shoar at IMDb