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Ezzatollah Entezami

Ezzatollah Entezami

Actor · Born 1924-01-01 · Tehran, Iran

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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.

Movies & TV Shows

  1. The Cow (1969) — Masht Hassan
  2. Hamoon (1990) — Dabiri
  3. The Tenants (1987) — Abbas
  4. The Postman (1972) — Niyatollah
  5. The Cycle (1978) — Dr. Sameri
  6. First Case, Second Case (1979) — Self
  7. Once Upon a Time, Cinema (1992) — Nassereddin Shah
  8. Mr. Gullible (1970) — Mohammadipoor / Fathollah Khan
  9. Hajji Washington (1983) — Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori
  10. The Blue-Veiled (1995) — Rasul Rahmani
  11. Takhti (1997) — Takhti's father
  12. Verdict (2005) — Reza Ma'roofi
  13. A House Built on Water (2002) — Dr. Sepidbakht's father
  14. Kamalolmolk (1984) — Nasereddin Shah
  15. The Fateful Day (1995)
  16. Hezar Dastan (1988) — Khan -e- Mozaffar (Hezardastan)
  17. Jafar Khan is back from the West (1985)
  18. The Maritime Silk Road (2011) — Slave Merchant
  19. Bita (1972) — Bita's Father
  20. The Ship Angelica (1989)
  21. The Lady (1992) — Ghorban Salar
  22. Eye of the Hurricane (1989) — Amir Houshang
  23. The School We Went To (1980) — The librarian
  24. The Divine One (1976) — M.L.
  25. Sattar Khan (1972) — Heydar Khan Amoo-Ughli
  26. Sadegh the Kurd (1972) — Sergeant Vali Khan
  27. The River's End (2004)
  28. Forties (2010) — Judge
  29. Punishment Committe (1997) — Khan-e Mozaffar
  30. The Stone Lion (1987) — Namdar khan
  31. The Mix (2000)
  32. Grand Cinema (1989) — Aghaiev
  33. Shirak (1988) — Haj Khaloo
  34. Battle of Oil Tankers (1994)
  35. Resurrection of Love (1973) — Mr. Kamal
  36. Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait (1996) — Self
  37. The Sleeping Lion (1977) — Mahmoud Khan
  38. The Green Fire (2008) — Judge
  39. Motherland (2009) — Colonel Amiri
  40. The Night (2007) — Dr Parviz