Veteran Turkish actor Tuncel Kurtiz, who acted in over 70 productions in a career spanning four decades, died on Friday.died at the age of 77 on September 27, 2013 following a fall-inflicted head trauma in a hospital in Etiler, Istanbul.
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Tuncel Kurtiz (born 1 February 1936 – 27 September 2013) was a Turkish theatre, movie and TV series actor, playwright and film director. Since 1964, he has acted in more than 70 movies, including many international productions.
He was born in İzmit, Kocaeli,[1] a town in Turkey. His father was a district governor (kaymakam) and his mother a teacher. His parents' occupation was the reason the family toured many places across the country. After graduating from the Haydarpaşa High School in Istanbul, Kurtiz studied English philology at Istanbul University.
Career[edit]
He soon started a career as an actor playing theatres. 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.
The Smile of the Lamb (Hebrew: חיוך הגדי, translit. Hiuch HaGdi) is a 1986 Israeli drama film directed by Shimon Dotan[1]. It was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival where Tuncel Kurtiz won the Silver Bear for Best Actor.
[1] Shimon Dotan's life and work led him from Romania, where he was born in 1949, to Israel, where he arrived at the age of 9. Following his studies in the first graduating class of the Department of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University, he directed two highly regarded films - "Repeat Dive" (1982 ) and "The Smile of the Lamb" (1986 ) - then moved to the United States, then to Canada and finally back to the United States.
Golden Orange Award for Best Screenplay (1981)
Golden Orange Award for Best Supporting Actor (1994)
Golden Boll Award for Best Supporting Actor (1994)
Golden Orange Award for Best Supporting Actor (2007)
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