[custom_adv] Fardin was born and raised in a poor area in southerN. He was the eldest of three children. After graduating from high school, Fardin joined the Air Force and became a freestyle wrestler in his twenties; he won a silver medal at the 1954 World Wrestling Championships and placed fourth in 1957. [custom_adv] Fardin died as a result of cardiac arrest on 6 April 2000 at the age of 69.The news of his death was largely ignored by state radio and television, which was run according to the dictates of the establishment, who had disapproved of his acting career and had banned his films post the 1979 revolution. [custom_adv] He was buried in the Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery. More than 20,000 mourners attended his funeral.