Tuncel Kurtiz

Known for ActingBorn 1936-02-01Died 2013-09-27Bilecik, Turkey

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Ağrı'ya Dönüş

Dark Shadows of Fear

Dødelig kjemi

Horse, Woman and Gun

I Live When I Die

Çökertme

Gräfin Sophia Hatun

Bir Aşk Uğruna

Amforans gåta

Die Hallo-Sisters

Kuduz Recep

Silahların Kanunu

Kanli Mezar

Bir Caniye Gönül Verdim

Konyakçı

Ezel

The Magnificent Century

My boy, look at the stars

O da Beni Seviyor

The Frozen Leopard

Hasan the Rose

Hoşçakal Yarın

Bullets Won't Touch Me

Krallar Ölmez

The Ugly King

Üçünüzü de mıhlarım

Kanlı Meydan

Alacakaranlık

Kvällspressen

Somersault in a Coffin

The Herd

The Edge of Heaven

The Legend of the Ugly King

Asi

Hope

The Wall

The Mahabharata

Time of Vengeance

Yiğit Yaralı Olur

Zehirli Kucak

Sokakta Kan Vardı

Sokaklar Yanıyor

On Fertile Lands

Istanbul Beneath My Wings

Tales of Intransigence

On a Narrow Bridge

The Bus

Jack Hunter and the Quest for Akhenaten's Tomb