Ezzatollah Entezami
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 1, 1924
- Died
- August 17, 2018 (aged 94)
- Birthplace
- Tehran, Iran
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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Filmography
Dariush Mehrjui: Making of the Cow
Movie
Oboist
Movie · as as Himself
Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report
Movie · as Self
The Teacher without Master
Movie
Shabi Ba Setareha
Movie
The Maritime Silk Road
Movie · as Slave Merchant
And the blue sky
Movie · as Himself
Forties
Movie · as Judge
Motherland
Movie · as Colonel Amiri
The Green Fire
Movie · as Judge
Colors of Memory
Movie · as Ghanati
The Night
Movie · as Dr Parviz
Jamshid Mashayekhi
Movie
Verdict
Movie · as Reza Ma'roofi
To be a Star
Movie · as Rafi Golkar
The River's End
Movie
A Place to Live
Movie · as Eydi Mohammad
The Insane Flew Away
Movie · as Mostofi
Summit of the Wave
Movie
A House Built on Water
Movie · as Dr. Sepidbakht's father
Twilight
Movie · as Detective Alavi
The Mix
Movie
Once Upon a Time in Tehran
Movie · as Khan-e Mozaffar
Punishment Committe
Movie · as Khan-e Mozaffar
Takhti
Movie · as Takhti's father
Storm
Movie
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
Movie · as Self
The Blue-Veiled
Movie · as Rasul Rahmani
The Fateful Day
Movie
Battle of Oil Tankers
Movie
Day of the Angel
Movie · as Niyyatollah
Baziche
Movie · as Ghadir zafarlu
Once Upon a Time, Cinema
Movie · as Nassereddin Shah
The Quiet Home
Movie · as Ghadir zafarlu
The Lady
Movie · as Ghorban Salar
The Shadow of Imagination
Movie
Hamoon
Movie · as Dabiri
Eye of the Hurricane
Movie · as Amir Houshang
The Ship Angelica
Movie
Grand Cinema
Movie · as Aghaiev
The Suitcase
Movie · as Mr. Sajjadi
Shirak
Movie · as Haj Khaloo
Hezar Dastan
TV · as Khan -e- Mozaffar (Hezardastan) · 16 eps
The Tenants
Movie · as Abbas
The Stone Lion
Movie · as Namdar khan
Jafar Khan is back from the West
Movie
Kamalolmolk
Movie · as Nasereddin Shah
Hajji Washington
Movie · as Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori
The House of Spider
Movie
The School We Went To
Movie · as The librarian
First Case, Second Case
Movie · as Self
The Cycle
Movie · as Dr. Sameri
The Sleeping Lion
Movie · as Mahmoud Khan
The Condemned
Movie
The Divine One
Movie · as M.L.
Resurrection of Love
Movie · as Mr. Kamal
Sattar Khan
Movie · as Haydar Khan Amo-oghli
Bita
Movie · as Bita's Father
The Postman
Movie · as Niyatollah
Sadegh the Kurd
Movie · as Sergeant Vali Khan
Mr. Gullible
Movie · as Mohammadipoor / Fathollah Khan
The Cow
Movie · as Masht Hassan