Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the Iranian exile whose time spent at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport inspired director Steven Spielberg’s film “The Terminal,” died Saturday of a heart attack at the same airport’s Terminal 2F, Variety reported. The agency reported that Mehran, who also went by the name Sir Alfred, had been living at the airport again in recent weeks. He lived in Terminal 1 of Charles de Gaulle Airport. Mehran Karimi Nasseri shaves, early in the morning, in Terminal 1 of Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport It was in 1988 that Mehran first settled at the airport after the UK refused him political asylum as a refugee despite having a Scottish mother. According to Variety, he deliberately chose to stay at the airport after declaring himself stateless and reportedly always had his luggage with him. Mehran Karimi Nasseri sleeps early in the morning in Terminal 1 of Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport Mehran, who first left the airport when he was hospitalized in 2006, 18 years after he first settled there, spent time reading, journaling and studying economics, Variety reported. Spielberg decided to make the 2004 film “The Terminal” based on his unconventional situation. It starred Tom Hanks as an Eastern European man staying at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport after being denied entry to the United States. Mehran Karimi Nasseri looks at a movie poster inspired by his life In addition to this, the 1993 French film Tombes du ciel, starring Jean Rochefort, was also inspired by Mehran, who was the subject of several documentaries and journalistic profiles. According to Variety, he is believed to have been born in 1945 in the Iranian city of Masjed Soleiman, and his autobiography titled ‘The Terminal Man’ was published in 2004. (Other than the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published by a syndicated feed.)

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Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the Iranian exile whose time spent at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport inspired director Steven Spielberg’s film “The Terminal,” died Saturday of a heart attack at the same airport’s Terminal 2F, Variety reported. The agency reported that Mehran, who also went by the name Sir Alfred, had been living at the airport again in recent weeks. He lived in Terminal 1 of Charles de Gaulle Airport. Mehran Karimi Nasseri shaves, early in the morning, in Terminal 1 of Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport It was in 1988 that Mehran first settled at the airport after the UK refused him political asylum as a refugee despite having a Scottish mother. According to Variety, he deliberately chose to stay at the airport after declaring himself stateless and reportedly always had his luggage with him. Mehran Karimi Nasseri sleeps early in the morning in Terminal 1 of Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport Mehran, who first left the airport when he was hospitalized in 2006, 18 years after he first settled there, spent time reading, journaling and studying economics, Variety reported. Spielberg decided to make the 2004 film “The Terminal” based on his unconventional situation. It starred Tom Hanks as an Eastern European man staying at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport after being denied entry to the United States. Mehran Karimi Nasseri looks at a movie poster inspired by his life In addition to this, the 1993 French film Tombes du ciel, starring Jean Rochefort, was also inspired by Mehran, who was the subject of several documentaries and journalistic profiles. According to Variety, he is believed to have been born in 1945 in the Iranian city of Masjed Soleiman, and his autobiography titled ‘The Terminal Man’ was published in 2004. (Other than the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published by a syndicated feed.)

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