From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Zia Mohyeddin (born June 20, 1933) is a Pakistani actor famed for his voice.
He was born in Faisalabad, (formerly Lyallpur), British India in a Urdu Speaking Family. He passed his early life in Karachi. He was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London from 1953-1956. After stage roles in Long Day’s Journey Into Night and Julius Caesar, he made his West End debut in A Passage to India in 1960. He made his film debut in Lawrence of Arabia in 1963, playing the role of Tafas (the Arab guide who is shot by Omar Sharif for drinking water from the wrong well). He then made numerous TV and film appearances, and starred as Dr Aziz in the 1965 BBC television version of A Passage to India.
He returned to Pakistan in the late 1960s. There he founded and ran the PIA Arts and Dance Academy, and hosted his own TV talk show. Around this time he met and subsequently (in 1973) married the classical dancer Naheed Siddiqui. However after difficulties with the regime Mohyeddin returned to England in the late 1970s, shortly followed by his wife. During the 1980s Zia worked in Birmingham, Great Britain, where he produced Central Television’s flagship multicultural programme Here and Now.
He resumed his acting career in Europe, appearing in small roles in various movies and television programs. He has since traveled the world giving Urdu poetry and prose recitations. In the late 1990s, Zia remarried, and had a daughter with his wife, Azra. In February 2005 President Pervez Musharraf invited Mohyeddin to act as Chairman of the new National Academy of Performing Arts in Karachi.
To this date, despite his growing age, Zia is still active among Pakistani media as a speaker and hosts several TV programs both for National and Private Channels. He is also involved in narrating some abstract short films and commercials
Description above from the Wikipedia article Zia Mohyeddin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Zia Mohyeddin Biography / Wiki
| Name | Zia Mohyeddin |
| Also Know | Zia Moyheddin |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Lyallpur, Punjab, British India |
| Date of Birth | 1933-06-20 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 89 |
| Deathday |
Zia Mohyeddin Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Some Lover to Some Beloved | Zia Mohyeddin | Inspired by John Gielgud, veteran Pakistani actor Zia Mohyeddin (‘Lawrence of Arabia’, ‘A Passage to India’) recites readings from now fading Urdu lit… | |
| Partition | 1987-08-19 | The tumultuous events surrounding the sub-continent’s partition in 1947 into India and Pakistan are re-imagined in Ken McMullen’s complex and visually… | |
| The Day of the Fox | President Rajan | 1961-09-06 | “In Jan Carew’s explosive drama, Sammy Davis Jr gives a memorable performance as a proud but disillusioned revolutionary who aims to destroy the rem… |
| Bombay Talkie | Hari | 1970-11-18 | An English novelist travels to Bombay to watch one of her novels translated to film. She chases after the movie’s leading man while the screenwriter c… |
| They Came from Beyond Space | Farge | 1967-05-01 | A group of scientists are possessed by an alien force when they investigate a meteor shower in a rural field…. |
| King of the Ghetto | Timur Hussein | 1986-05-01 | An idealistic former soldier helps unite and house ethnic minorities in a run down area of the east end… |
| Immaculate Conception | Shehzada | 1992-09-11 | A childless British couple visit a fertility shrine of Gulab Shah in Karachi run by eunuchs and set off a huge culture clash…. |
| Last Remarks | Radio Announcer | 2012-01-01 | As the sun sets on the British Empire, the British rulers of the Indian subcontinent prepare to divide the region into two independent states: India a… |
| The Sailor from Gibraltar | Noori | 1967-01-01 | Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who’s searching for a sailor she had known many years… |
| Work Is a 4-Letter Word | Dr Aly Narayana | 1968-09-15 | Dreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate in his dreary industrial town, but changes his mind wh… |
| The Assam Garden | Mr. Lal | 1985-06-04 | An insecure, aggressive widow of a tea garden manager reluctantly develops an affectionate relationship with an Indian housewife and her family…. |
| Ghazi Shaheed | Narrator | 1996-09-06 | The film covers a story of mysterious loss of Pakistani submarine PNS Ghazi. She has participated in second and third Indo-Pakistani wars (1965 and 19… |
| Sammy Going South | The Syrian | 1963-03-18 | After he is orphaned by an air raid on Port Said during the Suez Crisis, a young boy attempts to go by himself from the Suez Canal to Durban in South … |
| Khartoum | Zobeir Pasha | 1966-06-09 | English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from… |
| Ashanti | Djamil | 1979-03-09 | Dr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and t… |
| Deadlier Than the Male | King Fedra | 1967-02-12 | British agent Bulldog Drummond is assigned to stop a master criminal who uses beautiful women to do his killings…. |
| Behold a Pale Horse | Luis, Guide of Paco | 1964-08-14 | Manuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting … |
| Lawrence of Arabia | Tafas | 1962-12-11 | The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence’s mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Law… |
Credit: TMDB
Checkout The More Celebrities Profiles in Biography World