Tuncel Kurtiz

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On the far right, from the Turkish promotional poster for The Edge of Heaven

Tuncel Kurtiz (born February 1, 1936) is a notable Turkish theatre, movie and TV series actor, playwright and film director. Since 1964, he has acted in more than 70 movies, including many international productions.

Biography

He was born in Bahçecik - İzmit, a town in the Kocaeli Province. His father was a district governor (kaymakam) and his mother a teacher. His parents' occupation was the reason the family toured many places in Turkey. After graduating from the Haydarpaşa High School in Istanbul, Kurtiz was educated in English philology in the Law School at Istanbul University.

He soon started a career as an actor playing theatre. Since 1958, Kurtiz performed on many stages in Istanbul, in state and private theatres. He was also on the stage at Gothenburg City Theatre, Stockholm Royal Thaetre and Swedish Theatre in Sweden, Schaubühne Berlin, Frankfurt City Theatre and Hamburg City Theatre in Germany and at Peter Brook Shakespeare Royal Theatre in England. Kurtiz directed plays for the German-Turkish theatre project "Türkisches Ensemble" in the late 1970s.

During his university years and later the military service period, he became friends with the renowned film director Yılmaz Güney. They made a number of films together. Their 1970 film Umut was prohibited to leave Turkey, but was shown in Cannes Film Festival by a smuggled copy.

His first film role was in Şeytanın Uşakları, shot in 1964. Since then, Tuncel Kurtiz played also in many international productions like Swedish, German, Dutch, Italian, French, British, Israel and Indian films and TV series, mostly in the original language.

Tuncel Kurtiz currently lives in Berlin, Germany.

Filmography

Movies

TV series

  • Kara Duvak (2007)
  • Hacı (2006)
  • "Vägen till Gyllenblå!" (1985 - Sweden)
  • Die Abschiebung by Marianne Lüdcke (1985 - West Germany)
  • Tatort - Tod im U-Bahnschacht (1975 - Wets Germany)

Directed movie

  • Lyckliga vi... (1980 - Turkey/Sweden)

Awards

References

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Awards
Preceded by
event not held
 Golden Orange Award
for Best Screenplay
1981
for Gül Hasan
shared with Nurettin Sezer 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Golden Orange Award
for Best Supporting Actor
1994
for Bir Aşk Uğruna
shared with Oktay Kaynarca 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Golden Boll Award
for Best Supporting Actor
1994
for Agrıya Dönüş
shared with Fikret Hakan
1995 for Bir Aşk Uğruna 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Golden Orange Award
for Best Supporting Actor
2007
for Yaşamın Kıyısında 		Succeeded by
incumbent
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