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.
The Edge of Heaven
(Ali Aksu)
Code Name Coq Rouge
(Al-Houl)
Çökertme
Jack Hunter and the Quest for Akhenaten's Tomb
(Said)
The Legend of the Ugly King
(Self (archive footage))
On Fertile Lands
(Zeynel)
O da Beni Seviyor
(Masalcı)
Sawdust Tales
(Fisherman)
Black and White
A cavallo della tigre
(Fatih)
Tales of Intransigence
Somersault in a Coffin
(Reis)
Kalabaliken i Bender
The Mahabharata
(Shakuni)
Ağrı'ya Dönüş
Bana Kurşun İşlemez
(Cengiz)
The Waterfall
(Kel Selim)
Mutlu Aile Defteri
(Yıldırım Taşyumruk)
Pains of Autumn
(Kamil Efendi)
Bir Caniye Gönül Verdim
The Road That Has No End
(Köylü)
I Live When I Die
(Cemal)
On a Narrow Bridge
The Bus
Journey on a Clock Hand
(Agah)
Bir Aşk Uğruna
The Last Birds
(Turgut)
Gräfin Sophia Hatun
Kanal
Silahların Kanunu
Hope
(Hasan)
Vive la mariée... et la libération du Kurdistan
(Uncle Ismet)
In Foreign Soil
(Self)
The Ugly King
Hoşçakal Yarın
(Ali Elverdi)
Love is Colder Than Death
My boy, look at the stars
(Deniz Gezmiş(voice) and sings the poems)
Kanli Mezar
Işıklar Sönmesin
Die Hallo-Sisters
(Samy)
The Herd
(Hamo)
Istanbul Beneath My Wings
(Topal Recep Paşa)
Law of the Border
(Bekir)
Hasan the Rose
(The film director)
Krallar Ölmez
(Komiser)
The Smile of the Lamb
(Hilmi)
Frau Kutzer und andere Bewohner der Naunynstraße
The Wall
(Tonton Ali)
At Avrat Silah
Kuduz Recep
(Hamza)
Time of Vengeance
(grand-father)
The Guardian Angel
(Ivar)
Çok Tuhaf Soruşturma
Sokakta Kan Vardı
Krallar Kralı
Yiğit Yaralı Olur
Alacakaranlık
Magnificent Century
(Ebu Suud Efendi)
Asi
(Cemal Ağa)
Ezel
(Ramiz Karaeski)
Hacı
Scene of the Crime
(Der Kleine)
