Ezzatollah Entezami
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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.
Known for
Credits
Twilight (2001)
as Detective Alavi
The Sleeping Lion (1977)
as Mahmoud Khan
Shirak (1988)
as Haj Khaloo
The Ship Angelica (1989)
Actor
The Cow (1969)
as Masht Hassan
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait (1996)
as Self
To be a Star (2005)
as Rafi Golkar
Kamalolmolk (1984)
as Nasereddin Shah
The Cycle (1978)
as Dr. Sameri
The Postman (1972)
as Niyatollah
Eye of the Hurricane (1989)
as Amir Houshang
First Case, Second Case (1979)
as Self
Hajji Washington (1983)
as Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori
Battle of Oil Tankers (1994)
Actor
Bita (1972)
as Bita's Father
The Divine One (1976)
as M.L.
Colors of Memory (2008)
as Ghanati
The Blue-Veiled (1995)
as Rasul Rahmani
The Night (2007)
as Dr Parviz
Baziche (1993)
as Ghadir zafarlu
Takhti (1997)
as Takhti's father
The Insane Flew Away (2003)
as Mostofi
Dariush Mehrjui: Making of the Cow (—)
Actor
Sattar Khan (1973)
as Haydar Khan Amo-oghli
The Quiet Home (1992)
as Ghadir zafarlu
Mr. Gullible (1970)
as Mohammadipoor / Fathollah Khan
Summit of the Wave (2003)
Actor
Hamoon (1990)
as Dabiri
Resurrection of Love (1973)
as Mr. Kamal
The Fateful Day (1995)
Actor
The School We Went To (1980)
as The librarian
Shabi Ba Setareha (2013)
Actor
The Suitcase (1988)
as Mr. Sajjadi
Verdict (2005)
as Reza Ma'roofi
Once Upon a Time, Cinema (1992)
as Nassereddin Shah
Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report (2016)
as Self
The Condemned (1977)
Actor
The Lady (1992)
as Ghorban Salar
A Place to Live (2004)
as Eydi Mohammad
Jamshid Mashayekhi (2007)
Actor
The Tenants (1987)
as Abbas
And the blue sky (2010)
as Himself
Jafar Khan is back from the West (1985)
Actor
The Teacher without Master (2016)
Actor
The River's End (2004)
Actor
The Green Fire (2008)
as Judge
The Mix (2000)
Actor
Punishment Committe (1997)
as Khan-e Mozaffar
The Stone Lion (1987)
as Namdar khan
Sadegh the Kurd (1972)
as Sergeant Vali Khan
Motherland (2009)
as Colonel Amiri
A House Built on Water (2002)
as Dr. Sepidbakht's father
Oboist (2017)
as as Himself
The Maritime Silk Road (2011)
as Slave Merchant
Day of the Angel (1993)
as Niyyatollah
Grand Cinema (1989)
as Aghaiev
The Shadow of Imagination (1991)
Actor
The House of Spider (1983)
Actor
Forties (2010)
as Judge
Once Upon a Time in Tehran (1999)
as Khan-e Mozaffar