Ezzatollah Entezami
Actor
Born January 1, 1924 in Tehran, Iran
Ezzatolah Entezami (also spell Ezatollah Entezami, born 1924 in Tehran, Iran) was an award-winning Iranian actor. Graduated from theater and cinema school in Hanover, Germany in 1958, Entezami started his career on stage in 1941. He has been acting in movies since 1969. His debut performance in Darius Mehrjui's admired classic film, The Cow(Gaav), received the Golden Hugo in Chicago International Film Festival in 1971. He shined in the role of a naive villager who cannot endure the death of his beloved cow and starts to believe that he is the cow himself. He is known as one of the most prominent actors in Iranian cinema and has been labeled as the greatest actor in history of the cinema of Iran. He has worked with most of the prominent Iranian film directors, including Darius Mehrjui (eight films), Ali Hatami (four films), Nasser Taqvaee, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Behrouz Afkhami and Rakhshan Bani-Etemad. He has been awarded the Crystal Simorgh for the Best Actor twice from the International Fajr Film Festival, for Grand Cinema and The Day of Angel. His work and accomplishments were recognized in October 2006 at the Iran cultural center in Paris.
Filmography
Oboist
as Himself
The Teacher without Master
Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report
Self
The Maritime Silk Road
Slave Merchant
And the blue sky
Himself
Forties
Judge
Motherland
Colonel Amiri
The Green Fire
Judge
Colors of Memory
Ghanati
The Night
Dr Parviz
Jamshid Mashayekhi
Verdict
Reza Ma'roofi
To be a Star
Rafi Golkar
A Place to Live
Eydi Mohammad
The River's End
The Insane Flew Away
Mostofi
Summit of the Wave
A House Built on Water
Dr. Sepidbakht's father
Twilight
Detective Alavi
The Mix
Once Upon a Time in Tehran
Khan-e Mozaffar
Takhti
Takhti's father
Punishment Committe
Khan-e Mozaffar
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
Self
The Blue-Veiled
Rasul Rahmani
The Fateful Day
Battle of Oil Tankers
Baziche
Ghadir zafarlu
Day of the Angel
Niyyatollah
The Quiet Home
Ghadir zafarlu
Once Upon a Time, Cinema
Nassereddin Shah
The Lady
Ghorban Salar
The Shadow of Imagination
Hamoon
Dabiri
Eye of the Hurricane
Amir Houshang
The Ship Angelica
Grand Cinema
Aghaiev
Shirak
Haj Khaloo
The Suitcase
Mr. Sajjadi
Hezar Dastan
Khan -e- Mozaffar (Hezardastan)
The Stone Lion
Namdar khan
The Tenants
Abbas
Jafar Khan is back from the West
Kamalolmolk
Nasereddin Shah
The House of Spider
Hajji Washington
Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori
The School We Went To
The librarian
First Case, Second Case
Self
The Cycle
Dr. Sameri
The Condemned
The Sleeping Lion
Mahmoud Khan
The Divine One
M.L.
Resurrection of Love
Mr. Kamal
Sattar Khan
Heydar Khan Amoo-Ughli
Sadegh the Kurd
Sergeant Vali Khan
Bita
Bita's Father
The Postman
Niyatollah
Mr. Gullible
Mohammadipoor / Fathollah Khan
The Cow
Masht Hassan