Ezzatollah Entezami
Ezzatolah Entezami (also spell Ezatollah Entezami, born 1924 in Tehran, Iran) is 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.
Ghiamat-e eshgh
The Cow
(Masht Hassan)
Oboist
(as Himself)
The Cycle
(Dr. Sameri)
Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report
(Self)
Bita
(Bita's Father)
Eye of the Hurricane
(Amir Houshang)
Hamoon
(Dabiri)
The School We Went To
(کتابدار)
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
(Self)
Dariush Mehrjui: Making of the Cow
The Divine One
(M.L.)
And the blue sky
(Himself)
The Sleeping Lion
(Mahmoud Khan)
Hajji Washington
(Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori)
Once Upon a Time, Cinema
(Nassereddin Shah)
Verdict
(Reza Ma'roofi)
The Postman
(Niyatollah)
The Blue-Veiled
(Rasul Rahmani)
The Tenants
(Abbas)
Sattar Khan
(Heydar Khan Amoo-Ughli)
Sadegh the Kurd
(Sergeant Vali Khan)
The Green Fire
(Judge)
Kamalolmolk
(Nasereddin Shah)
Mr. Gullible
(Mohammadipoor / Fathollah Khan)
Jafar Khan az farang bargashte
Motherland
(Colonel Amiri)
The River's End
Forties
(Judge)
Punishment Committe
(Khan-e Mozaffar)
The Stone Lion
(Namdar khan)
The Mix
The Night
(Dr Parviz)
The Insane Flew Away
(Mostofi)
The House of Spider
The Quiet Home
(Ghadir zafarlu)
Colors of Memory
(Ghanati)
A House Built on Water
(Dr. Sepidbakht's father)
Jamshid Mashayekhi
First Case, Second Case
(Self)
Day of the Angel
(Niyyatollah)
The Fateful Day
Takhti
(Takhti's father)
Once Upon a Time in Tehran
(Khan-e Mozaffar)
The Ship Angelica
The Suitcase
(Mr. Sajjadi)
Grand Cinema
(Aghaiev)
The Shadow of Imagination
Shirak
(Haj Khaloo)
The Lady
(Ghorban Salar)
Baziche
(Ghadir zafarlu)
Battle of Oil Tankers
Twilight
(Detective Alavi)
A Place to Live
(Eydi Mohammad)
To be a Star
(Rafi Golkar)
The Maritime Silk Road
(Slave Merchant)
The Teacher without Master
Summit of the Wave
Hezar Dastan
(Khan -e- Mozaffar (Hezardastan))