Ezzatollah Entezami
Acting
1924-01-01 · 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
2017 · Movie
The Teacher without Master
2016 · Movie
Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report
2016 · Movie
Shabi Ba Setareha
2013 · Movie
The Maritime Silk Road
2011 · Movie
And the blue sky
2010 · Movie
Forties
2010 · Movie
Motherland
2009 · Movie
The Green Fire
2008 · Movie
Colors of Memory
2008 · Movie
The Night
2007 · Movie
Jamshid Mashayekhi
2007 · Movie
Verdict
2005 · Movie
To be a Star
2005 · Movie
A Place to Live
2004 · Movie
The River's End
2004 · Movie
The Insane Flew Away
2003 · Movie
Summit of the Wave
2003 · Movie
A House Built on Water
2002 · Movie
Twilight
2001 · Movie
The Mix
2000 · Movie
Once Upon a Time in Tehran
1999 · Movie
Takhti
1997 · Movie
Punishment Committe
1997 · Movie
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
1996 · Movie
The Fateful Day
1995 · Movie
The Blue-Veiled
1995 · Movie
Battle of Oil Tankers
1994 · Movie
Baziche
1993 · Movie
Day of the Angel
1993 · Movie
The Quiet Home
1992 · Movie
Once Upon a Time, Cinema
1992 · Movie
The Lady
1992 · Movie
The Shadow of Imagination
1991 · Movie
Hamoon
1990 · Movie
Eye of the Hurricane
1989 · Movie
The Ship Angelica
1989 · Movie
Grand Cinema
1989 · Movie
Shirak
1988 · Movie
The Suitcase
1988 · Movie
Hezar Dastan
1988 · Series
The Stone Lion
1987 · Movie
The Tenants
1987 · Movie
Jafar Khan is back from the West
1985 · Movie
Kamalolmolk
1984 · Movie
The House of Spider
1983 · Movie
Hajji Washington
1983 · Movie
The School We Went To
1980 · Movie
First Case, Second Case
1979 · Movie
The Cycle
1978 · Movie
The Condemned
1977 · Movie
The Sleeping Lion
1977 · Movie
The Divine One
1976 · Movie
Resurrection of Love
1973 · Movie
Sattar Khan
1972 · Movie
Sadegh the Kurd
1972 · Movie
Bita
1972 · Movie
The Postman
1972 · Movie
Mr. Gullible
1970 · Movie
The Cow
1969 · Movie
Dariush Mehrjui: Making of the Cow
Movie