Ezzatollah Entezami
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.
Acting
Movie
The Cow
as Masht Hassan
1969
Movie
Hamoon
as Dabiri
1990
Movie
The Tenants
as Abbas
1987
Movie
The Postman
as Niyatollah
1972
Movie
First Case, Second Case
as Self
1979
Movie
The Cycle
as Dr. Sameri
1978
Movie
Once Upon a Time, Cinema
as Nassereddin Shah
1992
Movie
Mr. Gullible
as Mohammadipoor / Fathollah Khan
1970
Movie
Hajji Washington
as Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori
1983
Movie
The Blue-Veiled
as Rasul Rahmani
1995
Movie
Takhti
as Takhti's father
1997
Movie
Verdict
as Reza Ma'roofi
2005
Movie
A House Built on Water
as Dr. Sepidbakht's father
2002
Movie
Kamalolmolk
as Nasereddin Shah
1984
Movie
The Fateful Day
1995
TV
Hezar Dastan
as Khan -e- Mozaffar (Hezardastan)
1988
Movie
Jafar Khan is back from the West
1985
Movie
The Maritime Silk Road
as Slave Merchant
2011
Movie
Bita
as Bita's Father
1972
Movie
The Ship Angelica
1989
Movie
The Lady
as Ghorban Salar
1992
Movie
Eye of the Hurricane
as Amir Houshang
1989
Movie
The School We Went To
as The librarian
1980
Movie
The Divine One
as M.L.
1976
