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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Tehran, Iran, 1924-01-01

Died: 2018-08-17

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1969	The Cow	Masht Hassan	77
2	1970	Mr. Gullible	Mohammadipoor / Fathollah Khan	54
3	1972	The Postman	Niyatollah	65
4	1972	Bita	Bita's Father	50
5	1972	Sadegh the Kurd	Sergeant Vali Khan	60
6	1972	Sattar Khan	Heydar Khan Amoo-Ughli	60
7	1973	Resurrection of Love	Mr. Kamal	0
8	1976	The Divine One	M.L.	20
9	1977	The Sleeping Lion	Mahmoud Khan	0
10	1978	The Cycle	Dr. Sameri	68
11	1979	First Case, Second Case	Self	65
12	1980	The School We Went To	The librarian	20
13	1983	Hajji Washington	Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori	54
14	1983	The House of Spider		0
15	1984	Kamalolmolk	Nasereddin Shah	68
16	1985	Jafar Khan az farang bargashte		43
17	1987	The Tenants	Abbas	57
18	1987	The Stone Lion	Namdar khan	70
19	1988	The Suitcase	Mr. Sajjadi	0
20	1988	Shirak	Haj Khaloo	30
21	1989	Grand Cinema	Aghaiev	40
22	1989	The Ship Angelica		40
23	1989	Eye of the Hurricane	Amir Houshang	60
24	1990	Hamoon	Dabiri	71
25	1991	The Shadow of Imagination		0
26	1992	The Lady	Ghorban Salar	65
27	1992	Once Upon a Time, Cinema	Nassereddin Shah	63
28	1992	The Quiet Home	Ghadir zafarlu	0
29	1993	Day of the Angel	Niyyatollah	60
30	1993	Baziche	Ghadir zafarlu	0
31	1994	Battle of Oil Tankers		40
32	1995	The Blue-Veiled	Rasul Rahmani	49
33	1995	The Fateful Day		78
34	1996	Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait	Self	0
35	1997	Punishment Committe	Khan-e Mozaffar	60
36	1997	Takhti	Takhti's father	43
37	1999	Once Upon a Time in Tehran	Khan-e Mozaffar	0
38	2000	The Mix		50
39	2001	Twilight	Detective Alavi	100
40	2002	A House Built on Water	Dr. Sepidbakht's father	75
41	2003	Summit of the Wave		0
42	2003	The Insane Flew Away	Mostofi	0
43	2004	The River's End		30
44	2004	A Place to Live	Eydi Mohammad	10
45	2005	To be a Star	Rafi Golkar	0
46	2005	Verdict	Reza Ma'roofi	35
47	2007	Jamshid Mashayekhi		0
48	2007	The Night	Dr Parviz	20
49	2008	Colors of Memory	Ghanati	0
50	2008	The Green Fire	Judge	30
51	2009	Motherland	Colonel Amiri	10
52	2010	Forties	Judge	45
53	2010	And the blue sky	Himself	0
54	2011	The Maritime Silk Road	Slave Merchant	46
55	2016	Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report	Self	0
56	2017	Oboist	as Himself	0
57		Dariush Mehrjui: Making of the Cow		0
58	2016	The Teacher without Master		0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1988	Hezar Dastan	Khan -e- Mozaffar (Hezardastan)	68