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.
Career
Ezzatolah Entezami started his career on stage in 1941 and graduated from theatre and cinema school in Hanover, Germany in 1958. He has been acting in movies since 1969. His debut performance was in Darius Mehrjui’s film, The Cow. 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.
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, 21 November 2010, [1]Archived 13 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine (in Persian). Photo reportage of the interview: [2]Archived 13 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine.