Acting
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.
Filmography
Oboist
Film · 2017
Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report
Film · 2016
The Teacher without Master
Film · 2016
Shabi Ba Setareha
Film · 2013
The Maritime Silk Road
Film · 2011
And the blue sky
Film · 2010
Forties
Film · 2010
Motherland
Film · 2009
The Green Fire
Film · 2008
Colors of Memory
Film · 2008
The Night
Film · 2007
Jamshid Mashayekhi
Film · 2007
Verdict
Film · 2005
To be a Star
Film · 2005
The River's End
Film · 2004
A Place to Live
Film · 2004
The Insane Flew Away
Film · 2003
Summit of the Wave
Film · 2003
A House Built on Water
Film · 2002
Twilight
Film · 2001
The Mix
Film · 2000
Once Upon a Time in Tehran
Film · 1999
Punishment Committe
Film · 1997
Takhti
Film · 1997
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
Film · 1996
The Blue-Veiled
Film · 1995
The Fateful Day
Film · 1995
Battle of Oil Tankers
Film · 1994
Day of the Angel
Film · 1993
Baziche
Film · 1993
Once Upon a Time, Cinema
Film · 1992
The Quiet Home
Film · 1992
The Lady
Film · 1992
The Shadow of Imagination
Film · 1991
Hamoon
Film · 1990
Eye of the Hurricane
Film · 1989
The Ship Angelica
Film · 1989
Grand Cinema
Film · 1989
The Suitcase
Film · 1988
Shirak
Film · 1988
Hezar Dastan
Series · 1988
The Tenants
Film · 1987
The Stone Lion
Film · 1987
Jafar Khan is back from the West
Film · 1985
Kamalolmolk
Film · 1984
Hajji Washington
Film · 1983
The House of Spider
Film · 1983
The School We Went To
Film · 1980
First Case, Second Case
Film · 1979
The Cycle
Film · 1978
The Sleeping Lion
Film · 1977
The Condemned
Film · 1977
The Divine One
Film · 1976
Resurrection of Love
Film · 1973
Sattar Khan
Film · 1973
Bita
Film · 1972
The Postman
Film · 1972
Sadegh the Kurd
Film · 1972
Mr. Gullible
Film · 1970
The Cow
Film · 1969
Dariush Mehrjui: Making of the Cow
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