TEHRAN -- The outstanding Iranian offscreen announcer Mohammad-Hossein Baghi died of brain damage on Monday. He was 60.

Baghi was known to the younger generation by his voice, which vocalized major characters in the TV series “Secret Army” created by Gerard Glaister and “The Old Fox” (original German title “Der Alte”).
Born in 1940, Baghi was a graduate in translation and began his career as a dubber in 1969, but the next year he shifted his focus to TV commercials. Since then, his voice has almost always been the one heard in most teaser ads, the Persian service of MNA reported.
His voice was used for dubbing the starring roles in blockbuster hits such as “Ben-Hur” (1959), an epic film directed by William Wyler, and “Spartacus” (1960) by Stanley Kubrick. In addition, his voice was also used regularly in animations and in advertisements, for example, it was used in an ad for a watch.
He was so talented that he was able dub the voice of several characters in a movie at the same time.
Baghi pursued his career with intensity and took the reactions of audiences seriously.
He believed that a dubber needed to experience the real situation where the film or the product was produced. “I had to announce a product that probably had taken from 3 to 7 years of work to be produced. That was a huge responsibility,” he had once said.
Photo: Hossein Baghi in an undated photo