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Ezzatollah Entezami
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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 I…
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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.
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Ezzatollah Entezami's Filmography
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Oboist
as as Himself
The Teacher without Master
Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report
as Self
No Poster
Shabi Ba Setareha
The Maritime Silk Road
as Slave Merchant
And the blue sky
as Himself
Forties
as Judge
Motherland
as Colonel Amiri
The Green Fire
as Judge
Colors of Memory
as Ghanati
The Night
as Dr Parviz
Jamshid Mashayekhi
Verdict
as Reza Ma'roofi
To be a Star
as Rafi Golkar
A Place to Live
as Eydi Mohammad
The River's End
The Insane Flew Away
as Mostofi
Summit of the Wave
A House Built on Water
as Dr. Sepidbakht's father
Twilight
as Detective Alavi
The Mix
Once Upon a Time in Tehran
as Khan-e Mozaffar
Takhti
as Takhti's father
Punishment Committe
as Khan-e Mozaffar
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
as Self
The Fateful Day
The Blue-Veiled
as Rasul Rahmani
Battle of Oil Tankers
Baziche
as Ghadir zafarlu
Day of the Angel
as Niyyatollah
The Quiet Home
as Ghadir zafarlu
Once Upon a Time, Cinema
as Nassereddin Shah
The Lady
as Ghorban Salar
The Shadow of Imagination
Hamoon
as Dabiri
Eye of the Hurricane
as Amir Houshang
The Ship Angelica
Grand Cinema
as Aghaiev
Shirak
as Haj Khaloo
The Suitcase
as Mr. Sajjadi
The Stone Lion
as Namdar khan
The Tenants
as Abbas
Jafar Khan is back from the West
Kamalolmolk
as Nasereddin Shah
The House of Spider
Hajji Washington
as Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori
The School We Went To
as The librarian
First Case, Second Case
as Self
The Cycle
as Dr. Sameri
The Condemned
The Sleeping Lion
as Mahmoud Khan
The Divine One
as M.L.
Resurrection of Love
as Mr. Kamal
Sattar Khan
as Haydar Khan Amo-oghli
Sadegh the Kurd
as Sergeant Vali Khan
Bita
as Bita's Father
The Postman
as Niyatollah
Mr. Gullible
as Mohammadipoor / Fathollah Khan
The Cow
as Masht Hassan
No Poster