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.

Filmography

• 2017Oboist — as Himself
• 2016The Teacher without Master
• 2013Shabi Ba Setareha
• 2011The Maritime Silk Road — Slave Merchant
• 2010Forties — Judge
• 2009Motherland — Colonel Amiri
• 2008Colors of Memory — Ghanati
• 2008The Green Fire — Judge
• 2007Jamshid Mashayekhi
• 2007The Night — Dr Parviz
• 2005To be a Star — Rafi Golkar
• 2005Verdict — Reza Ma'roofi
• 2004A Place to Live — Eydi Mohammad
• 2004The River's End
• 2003Summit of the Wave
• 2003The Insane Flew Away — Mostofi
• 2002A House Built on Water — Dr. Sepidbakht's father
• 2001Twilight — Detective Alavi
• 2000The Mix
• 1999Once Upon a Time in Tehran — Khan-e Mozaffar
• 1997Punishment Committe — Khan-e Mozaffar
• 1997Storm
• 1997Takhti — Takhti's father
• 1995The Blue-Veiled — Rasul Rahmani
• 1995The Fateful Day
• 1994Battle of Oil Tankers
• 1993Baziche — Ghadir zafarlu
• 1993Day of the Angel — Niyyatollah, Writer
• 1992Once Upon a Time, Cinema — Nassereddin Shah
• 1992The Lady — Ghorban Salar
• 1992The Quiet Home — Ghadir zafarlu
• 1991The Shadow of Imagination
• 1990Hamoon — Dabiri
• 1989Eye of the Hurricane — Amir Houshang
• 1989Grand Cinema — Aghaiev
• 1989The Ship Angelica
• Hezar Dastan — Khan -e- Mozaffar (Hezardastan)
• 1988Shirak — Haj Khaloo
• 1988The Suitcase — Mr. Sajjadi
• 1987The Stone Lion — Namdar khan
• 1987The Tenants — Abbas
• 1985Jafar Khan is back from the West
• 1984Kamalolmolk — Nasereddin Shah
• 1983Hajji Washington — Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori
• 1983The House of Spider
• 1980The School We Went To — The librarian
• 1978The Cycle — Dr. Sameri
• 1977The Condemned
• 1977The Sleeping Lion — Mahmoud Khan
• 1976The Divine One — M.L.
• 1973Resurrection of Love — Mr. Kamal
• 1973Sattar Khan — Haydar Khan Amo-oghli
• 1972Bita — Bita's Father
• 1972Sadegh the Kurd — Sergeant Vali Khan
• 1972The Postman — Niyatollah
• 1970Mr. Gullible — Mohammadipoor / Fathollah Khan
• 1969The Cow — Masht Hassan
• Dariush Mehrjui: Making of the Cow

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2016Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report — Self
• 2010And the blue sky — Himself
• 1996Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait — Self
• 1979First Case, Second Case — Self