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