Ezzatolah Entezami is an award-winning Iran

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Actor

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Career

Graduated from theatre and cinema school in Hanover

Hanover

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, Germany

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 in 1958, Entezami started his career on stage in 1941. He has been acting in movies since 1969. His debut performance in Darius Mehrjui

Darius Mehrjui

Dariush Mehrju'i , also spelled as Mehrjui, Mehrjoui, and Mehrjuyi, is an Iranian director, screenwriter, producer, and film editor....

’s admired classic film, The Cow

Gaav

The Cow is a 1969 Iranian film directed by Dariush Mehrjui, written by Gholam-Hossein Saedi based on his own play and novel, and starring Ezatolah Entezami as Masht Hassan. Some believe that "New Wave" of Persian cinema emerged after this film.-Plot:...

(Gaav), received the Golden Hugo in Chicago International Film Festival

Chicago International Film Festival

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  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 labelled 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

Darius Mehrjui

Dariush Mehrju'i , also spelled as Mehrjui, Mehrjoui, and Mehrjuyi, is an Iranian director, screenwriter, producer, and film editor....

 (eight films), Ali Hatami

Ali Hatami

Ali Hatami was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, art Director and costume designer.-Background:Graduated in cinema from Faculty of Dramatic Arts, his debut was Hasan Kachal , the first Iranian musical film...

 (four films), Nasser Taqvaee, Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Mohsen Makhmalbaf is an Iranian film director, writer, editor, and producer. During 2007 he was the president of Asian Film Academy.Makhmalbaf's films have been widely presented in international film festivals in the past ten years. The multi-award-winning director, belongs to the new wave...

, 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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Selected filmography

• The Cow
  Gaav
  The Cow is a 1969 Iranian film directed by Dariush Mehrjui, written by Gholam-Hossein Saedi based on his own play and novel, and starring Ezatolah Entezami as Masht Hassan. Some believe that "New Wave" of Persian cinema emerged after this film.-Plot:...
  
  , 1969
• Mr. Simpleton, 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
  Hezar Dastan
  Hezar-Dastan 1978-1987 is a highly popular TV series in Iran directed by Ali Hatami. Hezar Dastan is considered an eternal work in the history of Iranian TV...
  
  , 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
• Djafar Khan Returns from Europe, 1987
• In the Wind’s Eye
• Grand Cinema
• The Ship Angelica, 1988
• Hamoun
  Hamoun (film)
  Hamoun is a 1990 psychological drama movie directed by Dariush Mehrjui. The movie tells the story of a middle-class Iranian – Hamid Hamoun, played by Khosro Shakibai – and his struggle after his wife demands a divorce from him.-Plot:...
  
  , 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
• The House Built on Water, 2001
• A Place to Live, 2003
• Order, 2004
• Stars, 2005
• Colors of Memory, 2007

Personal life

His son, Majid Entezami is one of the most celebrated Iranian film score composers.

External links

• An interview with Ezzatollah Entezami in connection with the recently-produced biopic "... and the Blue Sky", directed by Ghazaleh Soltani and produced by Ghasem Gholipour, Mehr News Agency
  Mehr News Agency
  The isan Iranian news agency headquartered in Tehran, owned by the .Established in July 2003, MNA is the most multilingual news agency in the Islamic Republic of Iran and its’ CEO and Director General is currently Reza Moghadasi....
  
  , 21 November 2010, http://www.mehrnews.com/fa/newsdetail.aspx?NewsID=1192044 (in Persian). Photo reportage of the interview: http://www.mehrnews.com/fa/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=1188577.