Actor Esmaeil Soltanian die
Esmaeil Soltanian, a film and television actor and member of Iran’s Veteran Artists Institute, has died.
Soltanian died at the age of 69, on June 13, due to a heart attack, IRNA quoted Seyyed Abbas Azimi, the head of the Veteran Artists Institute as saying.
Azimi further expressed his condolences to the family and announced that details of the funeral and farewell ceremony for the late artist would be forthcoming, to be held in the Artists’ Section of Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery.
Soltanian was born in 1954 in Kermanshah and graduated in acting and directing from the Drama Arts School.
He began his artistic career in 1970 in theater as a writer, actor, and director. In the same year, he also completed a six-month course at the Kermanshah Center for Dramatic Arts under the supervision of the Iranian theater, cinema and TV actor, Atash Taqipour.
He started his work in cinema in 1985, with his role in the film, ‘The Hunting of Hunter’.
He also performed in several theaters on the front lines during the Iraq-Iran War (1980–88).