Ezatollah Entezami, "Mr. Actor," Passes Away
Ezatollah Entezami, a famous Iranian film and theater actor, died on Friday, August 16, at the age of 94, after several years of homelessness and illness.
He worked in Iranian cinema and theater for more than six decades.
Mr. Entezami can be called the father of acting in Iran, an actor from the generation of Jamshid Mashayekhi, Mohammad Ali Keshavarz, Ali Nasirian, and Davud Rashidi, who worked with the country's best filmmakers over several decades.
Davoud Rashidi passed away in 2016.
The Iranian Students' News Agency, ISNA, which followed up and confirmed the news of the death of "Mr. Actor" from the Iranian Cinema House, says that Ezatollah Entezami died on Friday morning at Bahonar Hospital in Tehran.
Ezatollah Entezami was born on June 20, 1924 in Tehran and graduated from the Tehran Faculty of Fine Arts in 1972.
Entezami entered the film industry professionally in 1969 by starring in the film "Cow" directed by Dariush Mehrjui, and in his very first film, he created a character that is now part of the collective memory of Iranians.
Over the course of his decades of artistic career, Ezatollah Entezami worked with Iran's best directors, from Ali Hatami and Nasser Taghvaei to Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and Mohsen Makhmalbaf.
Some of the most famous films of this actor include: "Mr. Hollow", "Beta", "Postman", "Cow", "Starkhan", "Sadegh Korde", "Haji Washington", "Grand Cinema", "Kamal-ol-Molk", "Hamon", "The Tenants", "Naseruddin Shah, Cinema Actor", "The Day of the Event", and "House on the Water".
In several sources, Ezatollah Entezami's name is recorded as the first Iranian actor and actress to win an international award: He won the Best Actor Award at the Chicago International Film Festival for his role in the film "Cow."
In March 2015, Ezatollah Entezami wrote a letter to President Hassan Rouhani asking him to resolve the issue of the detention of Mehdi Karroubi, Mir Hossein Mousavi, and Zahra Rahnavard.
Source: Radio Farda
