Iftekhar

Sayedna Iftekhar Ahmed Sharif, often mononymously credited as Iftekhar, was an Indian actor who mainly worked in Hindi cinema. He is known for his role as a police officer.

Iftekhar acted in over 400 films in a career that spanned from the 1940s through to the early 1990s. Like many of the older character actors who populated the Bollywood universe of the 1960s and 1970s, Iftekhar had been a lead actor in his youth during the "golden age" of Bollywood, in the 1940s and 1950s. His roles ranged from father, uncle, great-uncle, grandfather, police officer, police commissioner, courtroom judge and doctor. He also did negative roles in Bandini, Sawan Bhadon, “Call Girl”, Khel Khel Mein and Agent Vinod.