Actor

Ezzatollah Entezami

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Movies: 59Series: 1Crew credits: 1

TMDB ID: 931289

IMDb ID: nm0258168

Known for: Acting

Born: January 1, 1924

Died: August 17, 2018

Age: 94

Place of birth: Tehran, Iran

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1969 - 2017

Years active: 49

Average TMDB rating: 7.4

Wikidata: Q360665

Also known as

عزت اله انتظامی • آقای بازیگر • عزت الله انتظامی • Ezatolah Entezami • Ezzatolah Entezami • عزت خان انتظامی

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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.