Tarık Akan
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1949-12-13
Deathday 2016-09-16 (66 years old)
Place of Birth Istanbul, Turkey
Also Known As Tarik Akan
Tarık Akan
Biography
Tarık Akan (born Tarık Tahsin Üregül, 13 December 1949 – 16 September 2016) was a Turkish film actor and producer, who started his activity in the 1970s. He acted in a total of 110 films, and won numerous awards from various festivals including Cannes and Berlin. He won an Honourable Mention at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival for his role in Pehlivan. He entered a movie actor contest of the magazine Ses ("Voice"), and ended up runner up. He studied acting under the eye of famous Turkish film director Ertem Eğilmez (1929–1989). He made his film debut in 1970 at the age of 21 in Vefasız, and adopted the stage name "Tarık Akan". Between 1970 and 1975, in the heyday of Yeşilçam, he acted in 12 films a year in average. He appeared with Emel Sayın in Mavi Boncuk, Hülya Koçyiğit in Sev Kardeşim, Hale Soygazi in Gece Kuşu Zehra, and entered into the "list of unforgettables" with Hababam Sınıfı. At first, most of his roles were in romantic comedies. Later in his career, he has taken on more political and dramatic roles. The first film of this genre was Nehir, in which he shared the role with Cüneyt Arkın. Political films like Maden, Sürü, Yol and Kanal followed.
Known For
Actor
as Self
as Mişka
as Ahmet Zeybek
as Güner Sernikli
as Baba
as Sinan
as Mahmut Şevket Paşa
as Koç
as Hüseyin Efe
as Ragıp
as Narrator
as Uğur
as Makasçı
as Ziya
as Siyabend
as Müşfik
as Mustafa Ural
as Ömer
as Cemal/Hoca/Dilaver/Ağa
as Saycan
as Mecnun
as Musa
as Erol
as Zeynel
as Sadettin
as Berde
as Tunç
as Rauf
as Yönetmen
as Çetin
as Yusuf
as Adam
as Yazar/Matbaacı
as Münir Kozan
as Haydar Rıza
as Yılmaz
as Kamil
as Haydar Ali/Seyit Ağa
as Tayfun
as Cengiz
as Bilal
as Murat
as Kerem
as Şehmuz
as Komiser Yilmakz Gürel
as Yakup
as Seyit Ali
as Ali
as Bozovalı Cemal
as Mümin
as Uğur
as Sivan
as Bülent
as Nurettin
as Sedat
as Murat
as Tarık
as Ömer / Fintonto
as Murat Boğa
as Sinan
as Orhan
as Ferit
as Tarık
as Ferit
as Damat Ferit
as Damat Ferit
as Adnan
as Ferit
as Mehmet
as Aydın
as Ferit
as Ömer
as Ahmet
as Metin
as Yakışıklı Necmi
as Orhan
as Ferdi
as Ahmet
as Murat
as Ferit Haznedar
as Ferdi
as Hakan
as Ferit Çalışkan
as Hakan
as Halil
as Ferit
as Ferit Aker
as Hakan
as Murat Sayman
as Sedat
Producer
as Producer
as Co-Producer
Director
as Director
as Director