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