Ezzatollah Entezami
Born: 1924-01-01 in Tehran, Iran
Died: 2018-08-17
Known For: Acting
Biography
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
2017
- Oboist as as Himself
2016
2013
2011
- The Maritime Silk Road as Slave Merchant
2010
- Forties as Judge
- And the blue sky as Himself
2009
- Motherland as Colonel Amiri
2008
- The Green Fire as Judge
- Colors of Memory as Ghanati
2007
- The Night as Dr Parviz
- Jamshid Mashayekhi
2005
- Verdict as Reza Ma'roofi
- To be a Star as Rafi Golkar
2004
- A Place to Live as Eydi Mohammad
- The River's End
2003
- The Insane Flew Away as Mostofi
- Summit of the Wave
2002
- A House Built on Water as Dr. Sepidbakht's father
2001
- Twilight as Detective Alavi
2000
1999
- Once Upon a Time in Tehran as Khan-e Mozaffar
1997
- Takhti as Takhti's father
- Punishment Committe as Khan-e Mozaffar
1996
1995
- The Fateful Day
- The Blue-Veiled as Rasul Rahmani
1993
- Day of the Angel as Niyyatollah
- Baziche as Ghadir zafarlu
1992
- Once Upon a Time, Cinema as Nassereddin Shah
- The Lady as Ghorban Salar
- The Quiet Home as Ghadir zafarlu
1990
- Hamoon as Dabiri
1989
- Eye of the Hurricane as Amir Houshang
- The Ship Angelica
- Grand Cinema as Aghaiev
1988
- Hezar Dastan as Khan -e- Mozaffar (Hezardastan)
- The Suitcase as Mr. Sajjadi
- Shirak as Haj Khaloo
1987
- The Stone Lion as Namdar khan
- The Tenants as Abbas
1984
- Kamalolmolk as Nasereddin Shah
1983
- Hajji Washington as Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori
- The House of Spider
1980
- The School We Went To as The librarian
1979
- First Case, Second Case as Self
1978
- The Cycle as Dr. Sameri
1977
- The Sleeping Lion as Mahmoud Khan
- The Condemned
1976
- The Divine One as M.L.
1973
- Resurrection of Love as Mr. Kamal
1972
- Sadegh the Kurd as Sergeant Vali Khan
- Bita as Bita's Father
- Sattar Khan as Heydar Khan Amoo-Ughli
- The Postman as Niyatollah
1970
- Mr. Gullible as Mohammadipoor / Fathollah Khan
1969
- The Cow as Masht Hassan