Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 01, 1936
Died
Sep 27, 2013
Place of Birth
Bilecik, Turkey
Credits
78 titles
Tuncel Kurtiz
Biography
Tuncel Tayanç Kurtiz (1 February 1936 – 27 September 2013) was a Turkish theatre, movie and TV series actor, playwright, and film director Since 1964, he acted in more than 70 movies, including many international productions. 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 Theatre 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.
Known For
Filmography
All Over the Place - A Portrait of Tuncel Kurtiz
Self
The Legend of the Ugly King
Self (archive footage)
Happy Family Journal
Yıldırım Taşyumruk
My boy, look at the stars
Deniz Gezmiş(voice) and sings the poems
The Magnificent Century
Ebu Suud Efendi
The Lost Gift
Black and White
Pains of Autumn
Kamil Efendi
Ezel
Ramiz Karaeski
Jack Hunter and the Quest for Akhenaten's Tomb
Said
Asi
Cemal Ağa
The Edge of Heaven
Ali Aksu
Hacı
Tales of Intransigence
Alacakaranlık
On the Tiger's Back
Fatih
The Waterfall
Kel Selim
O da Beni Seviyor
Masalcı
In Foreign Soil
Self
Hoşçakal Yarın
Ali Elverdi
Vive la mariée... et la libération du Kurdistan
Uncle Ismet
Çok Tuhaf Soruşturma
Çökertme
Journey on a Clock Hand
Agah
Sawdust Tales
Fisherman
Gräfin Sophia Hatun
Işıklar Sönmesin
Somersault in a Coffin
Reis
Istanbul Beneath My Wings
Topal Recep Paşa
Love is Colder Than Death
Dursun
Gölgedekiler
Ağrı'ya Dönüş
Bir Aşk Uğruna
Dark Shadows of Fear
Mohammed
Dødelig kjemi
Ahmed Jhani
Kvällspressen
Abdel
Amforans gåta
Papa
Die Hallo-Sisters
Samy
The Guardian Angel
Ivar
The Mahabharata
Shakuni
The Mahabharata
Shakuni
Time of Vengeance
grand-father
Code Name Coq Rouge
Al-Houl
The Smile of the Lamb
Hilmi
The Frozen Leopard
On a Narrow Bridge
Kalabaliken i Bender
The Wall
Tonton Ali
Hasan the Rose
Hakan / The film director
On Fertile Lands
Zeynel