The Persian is a major character from the 1910 Gaston Leroux novel The Phantom of the Opera. In the book, he is the one who tells most of the background of Erik's history. Erik refers to him as the "d
Phantom (Kay novel)
…Luciana, Giovanni's youngest daughter Nadir Khan, known in Leroux's book only as "The Persian", is Erik's only friend Reza, Nadir's young son, who is dying from Tay–Sachs disease…
Arthur Edmund Carewe as Ledoux (The Persian), in Universal's 1925 silent film version of The Phantom of the Opera