Tuncel Kurtiz
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1936-02-01
Deathday 2013-09-27 (77 years old)
Place of Birth Bilecik, Turkey
Also Known As Tuncel Curtiz
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
Actor
as Self (archive footage)
as Yıldırım Taşyumruk
as Deniz Gezmiş(voice) and sings the poems
as Ebu Suud Efendi
as Kamil Efendi
as Ramiz Karaeski
as Ali Aksu
as Cemal Ağa
as Fatih
as Kel Selim
as Masalcı
as Self
as Ali Elverdi
as Uncle Ismet
as Agah
as Fisherman
as Reis
as Topal Recep Paşa
as Samy
as Ivar
as Shakuni
as grand-father
as Al-Houl
as Hilmi
as Tonton Ali
as The film director
as Zeynel
as Hamo
as Hasan
as Der Kleine
as Cengiz
as Komiser
as Hamza
as Bekir
as Köylü
as Cemal
as Turgut
Writer
as Writer
as Writer
Director
as Director
as Director