Tuncel Kurtiz
Acting • Born 1936-02-01 – Died 2013-09-27
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.
Filmography
75 credits
The Edge of Heaven
Movie • 2007
Ali Aksu
Code Name Coq Rouge
Movie • 1989
Al-Houl
Çökertme
Movie • 1997
Jack Hunter and the Quest for Akhenaten's Tomb
Movie • 2008
Said
The Legend of the Ugly King
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)
On Fertile Lands
Movie • 1980
Zeynel
O da Beni Seviyor
Movie • 2001
Masalcı
Sawdust Tales
Movie • 1997
Fisherman
Black and White
Movie • 2010
On the Tiger's Back
Movie • 2002
Fatih
Tales of Intransigence
Movie • 2004
Somersault in a Coffin
Movie • 1996
Reis
Kalabaliken i Bender
Movie • 1983
The Mahabharata
Movie • 1990
Shakuni
Ağrı'ya Dönüş
Movie • 1994
Bullets Won't Touch Me
Movie • 1967
Cengiz
The Waterfall
Movie • 2001
Kel Selim
Happy Family Journal
Movie • 2013
Yıldırım Taşyumruk
Pains of Autumn
Movie • 2009
Kamil Efendi
Bir Caniye Gönül Verdim
Movie • 1965
The Road That Has No End
Movie • 1965
Köylü
I Live When I Die
Movie • 1965
On a Narrow Bridge
Movie • 1985
The Bus
Movie • 1974
Journey on a Clock Hand
Movie • 1997
Agah
Bir Aşk Uğruna
Movie • 1994
The Last Birds
Movie • 1965
Turgut
Gräfin Sophia Hatun
Movie • 1997
Kanal
Movie • 1979
Abuzer Dayı
Silahların Kanunu
Movie • 1966
Hope
Movie • 1970
Hasan
Vive la mariée... et la libération du Kurdistan
Movie • 1998
Uncle Ismet
In Foreign Soil
Movie • 2001
Self
The Ugly King
Movie • 1966
Hoşçakal Yarın
Movie • 1998
Ali Elverdi
Love is Colder Than Death
Movie • 1995
Dursun
My boy, look at the stars
Movie • 2012
Deniz Gezmiş(voice) and sings the poems
Kanli Mezar
Movie • 1966
Işıklar Sönmesin
Movie • 1996
Die Hallo-Sisters
Movie • 1990
Samy
The Herd
Movie • 1979
Hamo Ağa
Istanbul Beneath My Wings
Movie • 1996
Topal Recep Paşa
Law of the Border
Movie • 1966
Bekir
Hasan the Rose
Movie • 1980
Hakan / The film director
Krallar Ölmez
Movie • 1967
Komiser
The Smile of the Lamb
Movie • 1986
Hilmi
Frau Kutzer und andere Bewohner der Naunynstraße
Movie • 1973
The Wall
Movie • 1983
Tonton Ali
Horse, Woman and Gun
Movie • 1966
Kuduz Recep
Movie • 1967
Hamza
Time of Vengeance
Movie • 1990
grand-father
The Guardian Angel
Movie • 1990
Ivar
Çok Tuhaf Soruşturma
Movie • 1998
Sokakta Kan Vardı
Movie • 1965
Krallar Kralı
Movie • 1965
Yiğit Yaralı Olur
Movie • 1966
Üçünüzü de mıhlarım
Movie • 1965
Hüseyin
The Frozen Leopard
Movie • 1986
All Over the Place - A Portrait of Tuncel Kurtiz
Movie • 2025
Self
Konyakçı
Movie • 1965
Kanlı Meydan
Movie • 1965
Sokaklar Yanıyor
Movie • 1965
Orhan
Zehirli Kucak
Movie • 1966
Türkiye'nin 68'i
Movie
Self
Dark Shadows of Fear
Movie • 1993
Mohammed
Alacakaranlık
TV • 2003
Magnificent Century
TV • 2011
Ebu Suud Efendi
Asi
TV • 2007
Cemal Ağa
Ezel
TV • 2009
Ramiz Karaeski
Hacı
TV • 2006
Scene of the Crime
TV • 1970
Der Kleine
Amforans gåta
TV • 1991
Papa
Kvällspressen
TV • 1992
Abdel
The Mahabharata
TV • 1990
Shakuni
Dødelig kjemi
TV • 1992
Ahmed Jhani