Tuncel Kurtiz

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Tuncel Tayanç Kurtiz (born February 1, 1936 in Bahçecik , Kocaeli ; † September 27, 2013 in Istanbul ) was a Turkish film and theater actor and director who has worked in numerous international productions.

Life

Kurtiz spent his childhood and youth in places like Kırıkkale, Reşadiye, Kandıra, Posof, Ayvalık, Michigan, Detroit, New York, Silifke, Darbogaz and Istanbul due to the changing jobs of his father. When Kurtiz was 14 years old, the family settled in Edremit. Kurtiz attended high school in Istanbul. At university he met his future film partner Yılmaz Güney in 1957 .

Kurtiz was found dead in his apartment in Istanbul's Beşiktaş district on September 27, 2013 . On September 29th, Kurtiz was buried in a cemetery near Edremit in Balıkesir Province . He was married to Mened Kurtiz.

Kurtiz as an artist

At the theater

From 1958 the son of a civil servant and a teacher, who had come to Istanbul to study , could be seen on various state and private Istanbul stages. In later phases of his theater and film career he played at the Gothenburg City Theater and the Royal Theater Stockholm , at the Berlin Schaubühne and the City Theaters in Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg and at the Peter Brook Shakespeare Royal Theater in England . In Germany Kurtiz also worked as a director for the early German-Turkish theater project of the Berlin Schaubühne Turkish Ensemble .

With the film

Kurtiz received his first film role in 1964 in the Turkish film Şeytanın Uşakları (The Devil's Servants). Kurtiz had been friends with Yılmaz Güney since his college and military years and starred in a number of his films. In 1975 he played in the Tatort episode "Death in the U-Bahn Schacht", which was set in West Berlin, and played a Turkish criminal there. From Sweden, the actor shot a documentary himself in 1978 about the so-called guest worker route , which until 1985 was known as E 5 , and u. a. connected Turkish migrant workers to their homeland before flights became more affordable. Kurtiz worked as a screenwriter for Erden Kiral's television adaptation of Orhan Kemal's socially critical novel The Fertile Land (1980).

As an actor, Kurtiz has appeared in Turkish and German film productions as well as in Swedish , Dutch , Italian , French , British , Israeli and Indian , in which he mostly played in the local language .

In his last role in the series Muhteşem Yüzyıl , he played the spiritual judge Ebussuud Efendi , but died before the production of the series was completed.

Filmography (selection)

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personal data
SURNAME Kurtiz, Tuncel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kurtiz, Tuncel Tayanç (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish film and theater actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Bahçecik , Kocaeli , Turkey
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 2013
Place of death Istanbul , Turkey