Ezzatollah Entezami
Biography
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.
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Movies (49)
Oboist
as as Himself
2017
The Teacher without Master
2016
Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report
as Self
2016
Shabi Ba Setareha
2013
The Maritime Silk Road
as Slave Merchant
2011
And the blue sky
as Himself
2010
Forties
as Judge
2010
Motherland
as Colonel Amiri
2009
The Green Fire
as Judge
2008
Colors of Memory
as Ghanati
2008
The Night
as Dr Parviz
2007
Jamshid Mashayekhi
2007
Verdict
as Reza Ma'roofi
2005
To be a Star
as Rafi Golkar
2005
A Place to Live
as Eydi Mohammad
2004
The River's End
2004
The Insane Flew Away
as Mostofi
2003
Summit of the Wave
2003
A House Built on Water
as Dr. Sepidbakht's father
2002
Twilight
as Detective Alavi
2001
The Mix
2000
Once Upon a Time in Tehran
as Khan-e Mozaffar
1999
Takhti
as Takhti's father
1997
Punishment Committe
as Khan-e Mozaffar
1997
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
as Self
1996
The Blue-Veiled
as Rasul Rahmani
1995
The Fateful Day
1995
Battle of Oil Tankers
1994
Baziche
as Ghadir zafarlu
1993
Day of the Angel
as Niyyatollah
1993
The Quiet Home
as Ghadir zafarlu
1992
Once Upon a Time, Cinema
as Nassereddin Shah
1992
The Lady
as Ghorban Salar
1992
The Shadow of Imagination
1991
Hamoon
as Dabiri
1990
Eye of the Hurricane
as Amir Houshang
1989
The Ship Angelica
1989
Grand Cinema
as Aghaiev
1989
Shirak
as Haj Khaloo
1988
The Suitcase
as Mr. Sajjadi
1988
The Stone Lion
as Namdar khan
1987
The Tenants
as Abbas
1987
Jafar Khan is back from the West
1985
Kamalolmolk
as Nasereddin Shah
1984
The House of Spider
1983
Hajji Washington
as Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori
1983
The School We Went To
as The librarian
1980
First Case, Second Case
as Self
1979
The Cycle
as Dr. Sameri
1978
