Ezzatolah Entezami

Ezzatolah Entezami (June 21, 1924 – August 17, 2018, Tehran, Iran) is 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 the 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.

The Cow, 1969
Mr. Naive, 1970
The Postman, 1972
Bita, 1972
Sadegh the Kurdish, 1972
Sattar Khan
Love’s Tumult, 1973
Kingdom of Heaven
Sleeping Lion, 1976
The Cycle
The Dust Dwellers
Hezar Dastan, TV series, 1978–1987
Condemned, 1978
The School We Went To, 1980
Hadji Washington, 1982
The Spider’s House
Kamalolmolk, 1983
The Suitcase, 1985 (released in 1988)
The Tenants, 1986
Stony Lion, 1986
Shirak
Jafar Khan Returns from Europe, 1987
In the Wind’s Eye
Grand Cinema
The Ship Angelica, 1988
Hamoun, 1989
The Shadow of Imagination, 1990
Banu,1991 (released in 1998)
The Quiet Home
Once Upon a Time, Cinema, 1991
The Toy, 1992 (released in 1994)
The Battle of Oil Tankers
Day of the Angel (also-sc.), 1993
The Blue-Veiled
The Fateful Day, 1994
Typhoon
Takhti, the World Champion (the first version, unfinished) 1996
Wind and Anemone
The Punishment Committee, 1998
The Mix (guest star)
The Dark Room
Twilight, 2001
A House Built on Water, 2001
A Place to Live, 2003
Order, 2004
Stars, 2005
Colors of Memory, 2007

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