Tarık Akan
Actor · died at 66
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| Age | died at 66 |
|---|---|
| Birth date | December 13, 1949 |
| Birthplace | İstanbul |
| Died | September 16, 2016 |
| Profession | Actor, Film producer |
| Zodiac sign | Sagittarius |
Tarık Akan — Biography
Tarık Akan, born Tarık Tahsin Üregül on 13 December 1949 and died on 16 September 2016, was one of the best-known actors in Turkish cinema and also worked as a producer and writer. He studied at Yıldız Technical University before graduating from a school of journalism.
He won a talent competition run by the magazine Ses in 1970 and stood in front of a camera for the first time the following year, in Solan Bir Yaprak Gibi. He quickly became one of Yeşilçam's busiest leading men, and his Damat Ferit in Hababam Sınıfı, a part he repeated in the sequel, fixed him in the popular memory.
Towards the end of the 1970s he moved from romantic comedy into socially and politically engaged cinema. He was Şivan in Sürü, directed by Zeki Ökten from a Yılmaz Güney screenplay, and Seyit Ali in Yol, which took the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1982 and carried his name abroad.
Later credits include Maden, Bir Avuç Cennet, Berdel, Mektup, Eylül Fırtınası, Vizontele Tuuba and Deli Deli Olma, and he was named best actor at the Golden Orange festival seven times. After more than a year of treatment for lung cancer he died in Istanbul on 16 September 2016, aged 66.
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- 1982 Path (Yol) (translated)
- 1979 The Herd (Sürü)
- 1975 Hababam Class (Hababam Sınıfı) (translated)
- 2004 Vizontele Tuuba
- 1978 The Mine (Maden)
- 1985 A Handful of Paradise (Bir Avuç Cennet) (translated)
- 1977 The Three Superboys in the Snow (Babanın Evlatları)
- 1984 Wrestler (Pehlivan) (translated)
- 1972 Sweet Talker (Tatlı Dillim) (translated)
- 1973 Oh, that's fine! (Oh Olsun) (translated)
- 1979 Railway (Demiryol) (translated)
- 1976 Hababam Class Failed the Class (Hababam Sınıfı Sınıfta Kaldı) (translated)
- 1974 Blue Bead (Mavi Boncuk) (translated)
- 1990 Berdel
- 1987 Water Also Burns (Su da Yanar)
- 1979 The Canal (Kanal)
- 1973 My Dear Brother (Canım Kardeşim)
- 1973 Baby Face (Bebek Yüzlü) (translated)
- 1986 The Back Side of Beyoğlu (Beyoğlu'nun Arka Yakası) (translated)
- 1976 So be it. (Öyle Olsun) (translated)
- 1997 The Letter (Mektup) (translated)
- A Little Cloud (Bir Küçük Bulut) (translated)
- 1976 When Fate Connects (Kader Bağlayınca) (translated)
- 1986 Tightly (Kıskıvrak) (translated)
- 2002 As Abdulhamid Falls (Abdülhamid Düşerken) (translated)
- 1979 The Vow (Adak) (translated)
- 1987 The Wheel (Çark) (translated)
- 2009 Piano Girl (Deli Deli Olma)
- 1990 Death of the Giants (Devlerin Ölümü) (translated)
- 1999 September Storm (Eylül Fırtınası) (translated)
- 2003 My Rose (Gülüm) (translated)
- 1982 The Fugitive (Kaçak) (translated)
- 1985 Blood (Kan) (translated)
- 1985 Tele Girls (Tele Kızlar) (translated)
- 1973 My Lying Sweetheart (Yalancı Yarim) (translated)
- 1994 Dissolutions (Çözülmeler) (translated)
- 1972 Love, my brother (Sev Kardeşim) (translated)
- 1975 Oh, where? (Ah Nerede) (translated)
- 2017 The Legend of the Ugly King
- 1986 Sound (Ses) (translated)
- 1983 Cure (Derman) (translated)
- 1977 Şefer Sözü (Şeref Sözü)
- 1977 Barrage (Baraj) (translated)
- 1985 Shattered (Paramparça) (translated)
- 1984 Ablaze (Alev Alev) (translated)
- 1994 The Passenger (Yolcu)
- 1972 Beyoğlu Beauty (Beyoğlu Güzeli) (translated)
- 1973 World of Hope (Umut Dünyası) (translated)
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