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	Acting
Most Rating	1.468
Birthday	1936-02-01
Place of Birth	Bilecik, Turkey
Also Known As	Tuncel Curtiz,

The Edge of Heaven

Code Name Coq Rouge

Çökertme

Jack Hunter and the Quest for Akhenaten's Tomb

The Legend of the Ugly King

On Fertile Lands

O da Beni Seviyor

Sawdust Tales

Black and White

A cavallo della tigre

Tales of Intransigence

Somersault in a Coffin

Kalabaliken i Bender

The Mahabharata

Ağrı'ya Dönüş

Bana Kurşun İşlemez

The Waterfall

Mutlu Aile Defteri

Pains of Autumn

Bir Caniye Gönül Verdim

The Road That Has No End

I Live When I Die

On a Narrow Bridge

The Bus

Journey on a Clock Hand

Bir Aşk Uğruna

The Last Birds

Gräfin Sophia Hatun

Kanal

Silahların Kanunu

Hope

Vive la mariée... et la libération du Kurdistan

In Foreign Soil

The Ugly King

Hoşçakal Yarın

Love is Colder Than Death

My boy, look at the stars

Kanli Mezar

Işıklar Sönmesin

Die Hallo-Sisters

The Herd

Istanbul Beneath My Wings

Law of the Border

Hasan the Rose

Krallar Ölmez

The Smile of the Lamb

Frau Kutzer und andere Bewohner der Naunynstraße

The Wall

At Avrat Silah

Kuduz Recep

Time of Vengeance

The Guardian Angel

Çok Tuhaf Soruşturma

Sokakta Kan Vardı

Krallar Kralı

Yiğit Yaralı Olur