A Dying King: The Shah of Iran (2017) featured a cast of 51 tracked actors. Of these, 8 (21%) are still alive today and 31 have passed away. The oldest surviving cast member is Farah Pahlavi, age 87. This film starred Bobak Kalhor and Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran.
21% still with us· verified cast16% of full cast · incl. 12 unverified
Survivorship
Cast Reunion Index: 21% still living
Avg. Age at Death: 79.1 yrs
Deaths by Year
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Cast51 members
| Person | Character | Status | DOB | Age | DOD | Age in 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bobak Kalhor Self - Narrator | Self - Narrator | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
 Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 26/10/1919 | 60 | 27/07/1980 | 98 |
 Farah Pahlavi Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Living | 14/10/1938 | 87 | — | 79 |
 Jimmy Carter Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 01/10/1924 | 100 | 29/12/2024 | 93 |
 David Rockefeller Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 12/06/1915 | 101 | 20/03/2017 | 102 |
 Henry Kissinger Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 27/05/1923 | 100 | 29/11/2023 | 94 |
Ben Kean Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
Robert Armao Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
 Ruhollah Khomeini Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 24/09/1902 | 86 | 03/06/1989 | 115 |
 Anwar Sadat Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 25/12/1918 | 62 | 06/10/1981 | 99 |
 Michael DeBakey Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 07/09/1908 | 99 | 11/07/2008 | 109 |
| Self | Deceased | 22/11/1919 | 101 | 18/02/2021 | 98 | |
Jerry Berlin Self | Self | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
Lyn Boyd-Judson Self | Self | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
Jorge Cervantes Self | Self | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
Morton Coleman Self | Self | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
| Self | Unverified | — | — | — | — | |
Manouchehr Ganji Self | Self | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
Leon Morgenstern Self | Self | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
Iraj Shaham Self | Self | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
Abbas Safavian Self | Self | Unverified | — | — | — | — |
 Ardeshir Zahedi Self | Self | Deceased | 16/10/1928 | 93 | 18/11/2021 | 89 |
 Richard Nixon Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 09/01/1913 | 81 | 22/04/1994 | 104 |
 Reza Shah Pahlavi Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 15/03/1878 | 66 | 26/07/1944 | 139 |
 Ashraf Pahlavi Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 26/10/1919 | 96 | 07/01/2016 | 98 |
 Reza Pahlavi Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Living | 31/10/1960 | 65 | — | 57 |
 Farahnaz Pahlavi Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Living | 12/03/1963 | 63 | — | 54 |
 Ali Reza Pahlavi Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 28/04/1966 | 44 | 04/01/2011 | 51 |
 Leila Pahlavi Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 27/03/1970 | 31 | 10/06/2001 | 47 |
 Hamilton Jordan Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 21/09/1944 | 63 | 20/05/2008 | 73 |
 Mohammad Mosaddegh Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 16/06/1882 | 84 | 05/03/1967 | 135 |
 King Hassan II Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 09/07/1929 | 70 | 23/07/1999 | 88 |
 Valéry Giscard d'Estaing Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 02/02/1926 | 94 | 02/12/2020 | 91 |
 Assadollah Alam Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 24/07/1919 | 58 | 14/04/1978 | 98 |
 Barack Obama Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Living | 04/08/1961 | 65 | — | 56 |
 José López Portillo Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 16/06/1920 | 83 | 17/02/2004 | 97 |
 Gerald Ford Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 14/07/1913 | 93 | 26/12/2006 | 104 |
 James Callaghan Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 27/03/1912 | 92 | 26/03/2005 | 105 |
 Helmut Schmidt Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 23/12/1918 | 96 | 10/11/2015 | 99 |
 Donald Trump Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Living | 14/06/1946 | 80 | — | 71 |
 John Kerry Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Living | 11/12/1943 | 82 | — | 74 |
 Mohammad Javad Zarif Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Living | 07/01/1960 | 66 | — | 57 |
 Sadegh Ghotbzadeh Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 24/02/1936 | 46 | 15/09/1982 | 81 |
 Hassan Rouhani Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Living | 12/11/1948 | 77 | — | 69 |
 Ali Khamenei Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 17/07/1939 | 86 | 28/02/2026 | 78 |
 Rosalynn Carter Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 18/08/1927 | 96 | 19/11/2023 | 90 |
 Franklin D. Roosevelt Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 30/01/1882 | 63 | 12/04/1945 | 135 |
 Joseph Stalin Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 18/12/1878 | 74 | 05/03/1953 | 139 |
 Winston Churchill Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 30/11/1874 | 90 | 24/01/1965 | 143 |
 Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 14/04/1906 | 68 | 25/03/1975 | 111 |
 Leonid Brezhnev Self (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) | Deceased | 19/12/1906 | 75 | 10/11/1982 | 111 |