Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1924-01-01
Day of Death
2018-08-17
Place of Birth
Tehran, Iran
Ezzatollah Entezami
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 (59)
Oboist
2017
The Teacher without Master
2016
Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report
2016
Shabi Ba Setareha
2013
The Maritime Silk Road
2011
And the blue sky
2010
Forties
2010
Motherland
2009
The Green Fire
2008
Colors of Memory
2008
The Night
2007
Jamshid Mashayekhi
2007
Verdict
2005
To be a Star
2005
