Ezzatollah Entezami

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.

عزت الله انتظامي متولد 1303 تهران، فارغ التحصيل از مدرسه شبانه تئاتر و سينماي هانوفر آلمان، دانشكده هنرهاي زيباي دانشگاه تهران و دكتراي افتخاري از وزارت فرهنگ و ارشاد اسلامي است. وي فعاليت هنري را با پيش پرده خواني در تماشاخانه كشور آغاز كرد. بازي در فيلم «واريته بهاري» به كارگرداني پرويز خطيبي نخستين تجربه سينمايي اوست. انتظامي ملقب به «آقاي بازيگر» سينماي ايران است كه بارها برنده جوايز جشنواره هاي داخلي و خارجي گرديده است. از ديگر فعاليت هاي او ميتوان به بازي در تئاتر، مجموعه هاي تلويزيوني از جمله «هزاردستان» به كارگرداني علي حاتمي، تدريس در دانشگاه هاي مختلف و داوري در جشنواره هاي مختلف اشاره كرد. وي در 26 مرداد 1397 در بيمارستان باهنر تهران در 94 سالگي درگذشت.