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Ezzatolah Entezami

Actor | * 06/21/1924 († 94, 08/17/2018) | Tehran (Iran)
Ezzatollah Entezami or Ezzatolah Entezami (Persian: عزت‌الله انتظامی, 21 June 1924 – 17 August 2018) was an Iranian actor. Entezami, Ali Nasirian, Mohammad Ali Keshavarz, Jamshid Mashayekhi and Davoud Rashidi are known as "the five most important actors in the history of Iranian cinema" because of their influence. ()

Ezzatolah Entezami (also spell Ezatollah Entezami, born 1924 in 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 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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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | History | Comedies

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The film relates the story of a surgeon (Doctor Pārsā) who returns to Iran after living in Germany for 33 years. Arriving in Tehran, Doctor Pārsā performs a heart operation on the nephew of the fa ...

Colors of Memory

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2008 | 1h 42min
 
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A young man leaves his birthplace, Isfahan, to come to capital city ,Tehran, to forgot his childhood memories. He is the storyteller and he tarts revealing his dreams which have been started a few mon ...

The River's End

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2004 | 1h 36min
Drama
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Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Re ...

A House Built on Water

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2002 | 3.5/5 | 1h 51min
 
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An old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there, the cow dies and now the villagers are afraid of his possible reaction to it when he returns. ...

The Cow

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1969 | 3.9/5 | 1h 45min
Drama
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Movies with Ezzatolah Entezami as Actor(48)

2021 RESURRECTION OF LOVE
as Slave Merchant2011 The Maritime Silk Road
as Judge2010 Forties
as Colonel Amiri2009 Motherland
as Ghanati2008 Colors of Memory
as Judge2008 The Green Fire
as Dr Parviz2007 The Night
as Reza Ma'roofi2005 Verdict
as Rafi Golkar2005 To be a Star
as Eydi Mohammad2004 A Place to Live
2004 The River's End
2003 Summit of the Wave
as Dr. Sepidbakht's father2002 A House Built on Water
as Detective Alavi2001 Twilight
2000 The Mix
as Takhti's father1997 Takhti
as Khan-e Mozaffar1997 Punishment Committe
as himself1996 Stardust Stricken - Mohsen Makhmalbaf: A Portrait
as Rasul Rahmani1995 The Blue-Veiled
1995 The Fateful Day
1994 Battle of Oil Tankers
as Ghadir zafarlu1993 Baziche
as Niyyatollah1993 Day of the Angel
as Ghorban Salar1992 The Lady
as Nassereddin Shah1992 Once Upon a Time, Cinema
1991 The Shadow of Imagination
as Dabiri1990 Hamoon
1989 The Ship Angelica
as Amir Houshang1989 Eye of the Hurricane
as Aghaiev1989 Grand Cinema
as Haj Khaloo1988 Shirak
as Mr. Sajjadi1988 The Suitcase
as Namdar khan1987 The Stone Lion
as Abbas1987 The Tenants
1985 Jafar Khan az farang bargashte
as Nasereddin Shah1984 Kamalolmolk
as Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori1982 Hajji Washington
1980 The School We Went To
as himself1979 First Case, Second Case
as Dr. Sameri1978 The Cycle
as Mahmoud Khan1977 The Sleeping Lion
1976 The Divine One
as Heydar Khan Amoo-Ughli1972 Sattar Khan
as Sergeant Vali Khan1972 Sadegh the Kurd
as Niyatollah1972 The Postman
as Bita's Father1972 Bita
as Mohammadipoor / Fathollah Khan1970 Mr. Gullible
as Masht Hassan1969 The Cow

TV Shows/Series with Ezzatolah Entezami as Actor(1)

as Hezardastan1988 Hezar Dastan

Movies with Ezzatolah Entezami as Crew(1)

Writing/Writer1993 Day of the Angel

Full Name: Ezatullah Entezami
Citizenship: Iran
Born: Saturday, 06/21 1924 (June) in Tehran (Iran)
Died: Friday, 08/17 2018 (August) in Tehran (aged: 94)
Zodiac sign: Cancer (Chinese zodiac sign: Rat)
Languages: Persian (FA)
Educated at: Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media
Children: Majid Entezami
Other names for Ezzatolah Entezami (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"عزت اله انتظامی"
"آقای بازیگر"
"عزت الله انتظامی"
Ezzatolah Entezami frequently works together with these people:
Dariush Mehrjui (25x, Crew)
Ali Hatami (17x, Crew)
Ali Nasirian (11x, Actor)
Hassan Hedayat (9x, Crew)
Masoud Jafari Jozani (8x, Crew)
Muhammad Bozorgnia (8x, Crew)
Mohammadali Keshavarz (7x, Actor)
Abdollah Eskandari (7x, Crew)
Turaj Mansuri (7x, Crew)
Behruz Afkhami (7x, Crew)
Ferdous Kaviani (6x, Cast)
Rogheyeh Chehreh-Azad (1x, Actress)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:1192516, Added: 02/23/2019, Last updated: 04/13/2024