Ezzatollah Entezami

Known for ActingBorn 1924-01-01Died 2018-08-17Tehran, Iran

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Twilight

Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait

The Suitcase

The Stone Lion

The Sleeping Lion

A House Built on Water

The Cow

The Fateful Day

Sattar Khan

Kamalolmolk

Hamoon

The Lady

Eye of the Hurricane

First Case, Second Case

Resurrection of Love

Hezar Dastan

The Cycle

The River's End

Punishment Committe

Shirak

Once Upon a Time, Cinema

The Postman

Sadegh the Kurd

The Tenants

The Mix

Day of the Angel

Grand Cinema

Bita

Battle of Oil Tankers

Hajji Washington

Jafar Khan is back from the West

The Blue-Veiled

The Ship Angelica

Mr. Gullible

The School We Went To

The Divine One

The Maritime Silk Road

Forties

Verdict

Takhti

The Green Fire

The Night

Motherland

A Place to Live

Oboist

Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report

The Teacher without Master

Shabi Ba Setareha