Tuncel Kurtiz
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Tuncel Kurtiz

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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.

Films Featuring Tuncel Kurtiz

The Edge of Heaven

20077.2

Code Name Coq Rouge

19896.3

Çökertme

19979.0

Jack Hunter and the Quest for Akhenaten's Tomb

20086.1

The Legend of the Ugly King

20177.0

On Fertile Lands

19806.8

O da Beni Seviyor

20018.0

Sawdust Tales

19975.6

Black and White

20105.6

On the Tiger's Back

20025.7

Tales of Intransigence

20046.4

Somersault in a Coffin

19967.4

Kalabaliken i Bender

19833.3

The Mahabharata

19907.1

Ağrı'ya Dönüş

199410.0

Bullets Won't Touch Me

19678.0

The Waterfall

20014.6

Happy Family Journal

20136.1

Pains of Autumn

20095.2

Bir Caniye Gönül Verdim

19659.0

The Road That Has No End

19655.7

I Live When I Die

196510.0

On a Narrow Bridge

19856.5

The Bus

19746.6

Journey on a Clock Hand

19975.8

Bir Aşk Uğruna

19949.0

The Last Birds

19656.3

Gräfin Sophia Hatun

Gräfin Sophia Hatun

19979.0

Kanal

19796.4

Silahların Kanunu

19669.0

Hope

19707.4

Vive la mariée... et la libération du Kurdistan

Vive la mariée... et la libération du Kurdistan

19985.8

In Foreign Soil

2001

Hoşçakal Yarın

19987.7

The Ugly King

19668.0

Love is Colder Than Death

19956.0

My boy, look at the stars

20128.0

Kanli Mezar

19669.0

Işıklar Sönmesin

19966.0

Die Hallo-Sisters

19909.0

The Herd

19787.5

Istanbul Beneath My Wings

19966.7

Law of the Border

19666.2

Hasan the Rose

19808.0

Krallar Ölmez

19678.0

The Smile of the Lamb

19865.3

Frau Kutzer und andere Bewohner der Naunynstraße

Frau Kutzer und andere Bewohner der Naunynstraße

1973

The Wall

19837.2

Horse, Woman and Gun

196610.0

Kuduz Recep

19679.0

Time of Vengeance

19907.0

The Guardian Angel

19905.4

Çok Tuhaf Soruşturma

1998

Sokakta Kan Vardı

19657.0

Krallar Kralı

19656.0

Yiğit Yaralı Olur

19667.0

Üçünüzü de mıhlarım

19658.0

The Frozen Leopard

19868.0

All Over the Place - A Portrait of Tuncel Kurtiz

20255.5

Konyakçı

19659.0

Kanlı Meydan

19658.0

Sokaklar Yanıyor

19657.0

Zehirli Kucak

Zehirli Kucak

19667.0

Türkiye'nin 68'i

Dark Shadows of Fear

199310.0

The Lost Gift

2010

Baba

Baba

1994