Tuncel Kurtiz
Acting
Awards
Won 1 Golden Orange Life Achievement Award Award
Golden Orange Life Achievement Award 1 won
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
41 credits
Scene of the Crime
The Magnificent Century
Ezel
Asi
Somersault in a Coffin
The Edge of Heaven
The Smile of the Lamb
The Last Birds
The Mahabharata
The Wall
Journey on a Clock Hand
Jack Hunter and the Quest for Akhenaten's Tomb
Hope
Dødelig kjemi
Sokaklar Yanıyor
Amforans gåta
Vive la mariée... et la libération du Kurdistan
The Legend of the Ugly King
Kvällspressen
Law of the Border
Kanal
Kuduz Recep
The Mahabharata
The Guardian Angel
All Over the Place - A Portrait of Tuncel Kurtiz
The Herd
Krallar Ölmez
Istanbul Beneath My Wings
Dark Shadows of Fear
Time of Vengeance
Sawdust Tales
Pains of Autumn
Code Name Coq Rouge
My boy, look at the stars
Love is Colder Than Death
On the Tiger's Back
The Road That Has No End
O da Beni Seviyor
On Fertile Lands
The Waterfall
Happy Family Journal
Other credits
19 credits
Alacakaranlık
Hacı
Işıklar Sönmesin
The Lost Gift
The Bus
Tales of Intransigence
Krallar Kralı
Ağrı'ya Dönüş
Kanlı Meydan
Gölgedekiler
Silahların Kanunu
I Live When I Die
Baba
Zehirli Kucak
Gräfin Sophia Hatun
Bir Aşk Uğruna
Frau Kutzer und andere Bewohner der Naunynstraße
Horse, Woman and Gun
The Frozen Leopard
Writing
1 credit
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