Ezzatollah Entezami
Actor
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.
Filmography
Hamoon
as Dabiri 1990
The Tenants
as Abbas 1987
The Postman
as Niyatollah 1972
The Cycle
as Dr. Sameri 1978
Once Upon a Time, Cinema
as Nassereddin Shah 1992
Mr. Gullible
as Mohammadipoor / Fathollah Khan 1970
Hajji Washington
as Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori 1983
The Blue-Veiled
as Rasul Rahmani 1995
First Case, Second Case
as Self 1979
Takhti
as Takhti's father 1997
A House Built on Water
as Dr. Sepidbakht's father 2002
The Fateful Day
1995
Verdict
as Reza Ma'roofi 2005
Kamalolmolk
as Nasereddin Shah 1984
The Maritime Silk Road
as Slave Merchant 2011
Jafar Khan is back from the West
1985