Ezzatollah Entezami
Birthday: 1924-01-01 | Place of Birth: Tehran, IranEzzatolah 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Self
as Slave Merchant
as Himself
as Judge
as Colonel Amiri
as Judge
as Rafi Golkar
as Reza Ma'roofi
as Eydi Mohammad
as Dr. Sepidbakht's father
as Ghorban Salar
as Nassereddin Shah
as Dabiri
as Amir Houshang
as Khan -e- Mozaffar (Hezardastan)
as Mr. Sajjadi
as Abbas
as Namdar khan
as Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori
as The librarian
as Dr. Sameri
as Self
as Mr. Kamal
as Niyatollah
