Tuncel Kurtiz
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
Scene of the Crime
Der Kleine
Magnificent Century
Ebu Suud Efendi
Ezel
Ramiz Karaeski
Asi
Cemal Ağa
O da Beni Seviyor
Masalcı
Hoşçakal Yarın
Ali Elverdi
The Edge of Heaven
Ali Aksu
Jack Hunter and the Quest for Akhenaten's Tomb
Said
The Herd
Hamo Ağa
The Mahabharata
Shakuni
On a Narrow Bridge
Bullets Won't Touch Me
Cengiz
Çökertme
Konyakçı
Sawdust Tales
Fisherman
Kanli Mezar
Hasan the Rose
Hakan / The film director
My boy, look at the stars
Deniz Gezmiş(voice) and sings the poems
The Last Birds
Turgut
Yiğit Yaralı Olur
Black and White
Silahların Kanunu
Alacakaranlık
The Smile of the Lamb
Hilmi
Krallar Ölmez
Komiser
Code Name Coq Rouge
Al-Houl
Kuduz Recep
Hamza
Hacı
The Mahabharata
Shakuni
Law of the Border
Bekir
Işıklar Sönmesin
A cavallo della tigre
Fatih
The Guardian Angel
Ivar
Istanbul Beneath My Wings
Topal Recep Paşa
Kvällspressen
Abdel
Çok Tuhaf Soruşturma
Love is Colder Than Death
Dursun
Amforans gåta
Papa
Bir Aşk Uğruna
The Road That Has No End
Köylü
Happy Family Journal
Yıldırım Taşyumruk
Gräfin Sophia Hatun
Ağrı'ya Dönüş
All Over the Place - A Portrait of Tuncel Kurtiz
Self
Journey on a Clock Hand
Agah
The Waterfall
Kel Selim
Somersault in a Coffin
Reis
Kanal
Abuzer Dayı
Bir Caniye Gönül Verdim
Kalabaliken i Bender
Horse, Woman and Gun
I Live When I Die
Cemal
The Bus
Üçünüzü de mıhlarım
Hüseyin
The Legend of the Ugly King
Self (archive footage)
Time of Vengeance
grand-father
Hope
Hasan
Sokakta Kan Vardı
Pains of Autumn
Kamil Efendi
Krallar Kralı
The Wall
Tonton Ali
On Fertile Lands
Zeynel
The Frozen Leopard
Vive la mariée... et la libération du Kurdistan
Uncle Ismet
Frau Kutzer und andere Bewohner der Naunynstraße
The Ugly King
Die Hallo-Sisters
Samy
In Foreign Soil
Self