
Ezzatollah Entezami
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.
61 acting credits
Acting · 61

Hezar Dastan
1988

Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
1996

The Cow
1969

Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report
2016

The Stone Lion
1987
Dariush Mehrjui: Making of the Cow
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Mr. Gullible
1970

The School We Went To
1980

Once Upon a Time, Cinema
1992

The Cycle
1978

Hamoon
1990

Forties
2010

Takhti
1997

The Lady
1992

Sadegh the Kurd
1972

The Tenants
1987

Bita
1972

Verdict
2005

Day of the Angel
1993

A House Built on Water
2002

The Suitcase
1988

The Ship Angelica
1989

The Sleeping Lion
1977

The House of Spider
1983

The Maritime Silk Road
2011

The Shadow of Imagination
1991

The Insane Flew Away
2003

The Fateful Day
1995

Eye of the Hurricane
1989

First Case, Second Case
1979

Colors of Memory
2008

The Postman
1972

Once Upon a Time in Tehran
1999

A Place to Live
2004

Hajji Washington
1983

Summit of the Wave
2003

The Night
2007

Kamalolmolk
1984

The Mix
2000

The Quiet Home
1992

Jafar Khan is back from the West
1985

Shirak
1988

The Green Fire
2008

The River's End
2004

Twilight
2001

To be a Star
2005

Baziche
1993

Resurrection of Love
1973

And the blue sky
2010

The Blue-Veiled
1995

Battle of Oil Tankers
1994

Grand Cinema
1989

The Divine One
1976

Jamshid Mashayekhi
2007

Sattar Khan
1972

Punishment Committe
1997

Motherland
2009

The Condemned
1977
Shabi Ba Setareha
2013

Oboist
2017

The Teacher without Master
2016