Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 18, 1961
Died
Sep 03, 2020
Place of Birth
Silifke, Mersin, Turkey
Credits
54 titles
Birol Ünel
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Birol Ünel (born 18 August 1961) was a Turkish-German actor who played in German and Turkish films, television, and theatrical productions. His name, "Birol", means "unique" in Turkish. Ünel was born in Mersin in southern Turkey. In 1968, his family moved to Brinkum near Bremen in Germany. He studied acting at Hanover Conservatory. Ünel began as a theatre actor at the Berliner Tacheles where he played the lead and also directed the play "Caligula". Ünel made his film debut in 1988's The Passenger. He played a private detective in the film Dealer which he followed up with a role in Fatih Akın's Im Juli. Birol then acted in the award winning Gegen die Wand as Cahit Tomruk. He won the German film prize for best actor for this role. His latest films have been Transylvania, Seven Heroes and Soul Kitchen. Ünel also acted in the hit Turkish film Hırsız var! in 2005. Description above from the Wikipedia article Birol Ünel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Hürkuş: Göklerdeki Kahraman
İvan
Falling
Aslan
Plan B
Hausmeister
Back to Nothing
Kongo
I'm Off Then
Americo
Netekim Karakolu
Looking for Eimish
Lupô
Showman Olli Schulz
Therapeut
Sleepless Night
Yilmaz
The Cricket
Worker
Soul Kitchen
Shayn Weiss
The Moon and Other Lovers
Gansar
Valerie
Jaro
The Unpolished
Axel
House of the Sleeping Beauties
Herr Gold
Transylvania
Tchangalo
KRIMI.DE
Herr Weiß
Robbery Alla Turca
Pamir
Kalbin Zamanı
Demir
German Dream
Birol Ünel
Head-On
Cahit Tomruk
Leute am Donnerstag
himself
Not a Lovestory
Guru
King of Thieves
Birol
Der gestohlene Mond
Nick
Blackberry
Sylvester
My Mother
Hasan
Inspektor Rolle
Tschokan Bischkek
Enemy at the Gates
Politruk
Planet Alex
Milan
Der Puma - Kämpfer mit Herz
Bernd Schlegel
In July
Club Doyen
Tour Abroad
Osman
Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht
Günther
Unknown Friend
Moritz
Dealer
Erdal
Der Clown
Cosmo Nunnari
Frankfurt Millennium
Mustafa
Tierarzt Dr. Engel
Siggi Kirchlechner
Dead Pool
Zohair Y. Akache aka 'Captain Mahmoud'
Buddies - Leben auf der Überholspur
Friedemann Brix - Eine Schwäche für Mord
Dieter Lohmann
Landgang für Ringo
Yusuf
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
Harkan Bülent
Balko
Tobias Wölke
Mau Mau
Schulte
A Wopbobaloobop a Lopbamboom
The Passenger – Welcome to Germany
Der Fahnder
Nick Peters
A Case For Two
Klaus