Tuncel Kurtiz
Actor
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.
As Director
Filmography
The Edge of Heaven
as Ali Aksu 2007
Somersault in a Coffin
as Reis 1996
Hope
as Hasan 1970
Jack Hunter and the Quest for Akhenaten's Tomb
as Said 2008
The Herd
as Hamo Ağa 1979
Istanbul Beneath My Wings
as Topal Recep Paşa 1996
The Bus
1974
Law of the Border
as Bekir 1966
The Wall
as Tonton Ali 1983
Happy Family Journal
as Yıldırım Taşyumruk 2013
Code Name Coq Rouge
as Al-Houl 1989
The Mahabharata
as Shakuni 1990
Pains of Autumn
as Kamil Efendi 2009
On Fertile Lands
as Zeynel 1980
Journey on a Clock Hand
as Agah 1997
Black and White
2010
On the Tiger's Back
as Fatih 2002