Gholamhossein Naghshineh, the renowned actor best known for portraying “Dear Uncle” (Daei Jan) in the television series My Uncle Napoleon, was born in Tehran in 1908. He graduated from the first class of the Tehran School of Dramatic Arts in 1939 and began his artistic career in 1920 by performing in productions of the Comedy Group at the Grand Hotel Theater. He later continued his stage work with the Dehghan Theater and subsequently the Tehran Theater.
Among the many plays in which he appeared were The Lovers, Ghias the Brickmaker, A Night in Naser al-Din Shah’s Harem, Stubbornness and Obstinacy, Nader and Setareh, Shah Abbas and the Battle of Darband, The Liar and the Fabricator, The Bureau of Love, The War Between Husband and Wife, Scandal, Gambling, Revenge of the Spirits, The Blind Girl, Bijan and Manijeh, Nader Shah and the Battle of Karnal, Rostam and Sohrab, The Borrowed Lover, The Devil’s Tears, The Story of Two Women, The Battle of Eleven Faces, Everything for Money, The Barber of Seville, Haj Abdolshakam, We Recognized Our Fiancée, Montserrat, Love, Peace, Affection, and Fidelity, Layla and Majnun, The Tragedy of Ramadan, The Rose and the Nightingale, The Legend of Winter Nights, The Unknown Woman, The Fake Uncle or the Innocent Prostitute, Good and Evil, The Iranian Constitutional Revolution, The Trial of Mary Dugan, Murder in the Theater, A Warm Reception, Mehrgiah, Educated Women, Herdambil, The Boar-Tiger with Tusks, That Long Hot Day, and Lovers and Other Strangers.
