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.
Tuncel Kurtiz Biography / Wiki
| Name | Tuncel Kurtiz |
| Also Know | Tuncel Curtiz |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Bilecik, Turkey |
| Date of Birth | 1936-02-01 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 77 |
| Deathday | 2013-09-27 |
Tuncel Kurtiz Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Black and White | 2010-04-22 | A painter with a turbulent history, fiercely committed to his ideals and still averse to settling down despite his 70 years; a lawyer who packed in hi… | |
| Tales of Intransigence | 2004-03-05 | The story of rivalry between two forms of winter transport: the horse-drawn sleigh which can take the short cut over the frozen lake and the red minib… | |
| Mutlu Aile Defteri | Yıldırım TaÅŸyumruk | 2013-03-08 | Children of a retired colonel come together after their father falls from the rooftop. This constrained togetherness reveals their lies day by day…. |
| The Bus | 1975-01-01 | A group of illegal immigrants are brought to Stockholm in a bus by a smuggler who takes all their money and passports, and then runs away…. | |
| Hope | Hasan | 1970-01-01 | After losing one of his horses in an accident, an illiterate horse cab driver sets out into the desert in a quest for a mythical lost treasure…. |
| Hoşçakal Yarın | 1998-10-23 | This movie is about Deniz Gezmis and his two comrades. They were three revolutionary activist has been executed by military fascist junta in 1972…. | |
| Delikanlım Ä°yi Bak Yıldızlara | 2012-05-04 | … | |
| Hasan the Rose | The film director | 1980-06-23 | A film director comes to Stockholm claiming he is an internationally renowned filmmaker. The truth is that he is a total failure. He is counting on th… |
| The Smile of the Lamb | Hilmi | 1986-09-01 | This Israeli-made film is set along the battle-torn West Bank. Military governor Makram Khouri tries to flush out some fugitive PLO activists by hangi… |
| The Wall | Tonton Ali | 1983-01-01 | Produced, written and directed by Yılmaz Güney within his own personal experiences of capital offense, he dedicates Duvar to male teenagers aged 13 … |
| Çok Tuhaf SoruÅŸturma | 1998-03-13 | … | |
| On Fertile Lands | Zeynel | 1980-01-02 | The tragic story of three farm worker who migrates from their village to the cotton land Çukurova…. |
| Somersault in a Coffin | Reis | 1996-04-01 | Mahsun Supertitiz is an unemployed homeless man who steals cars at night so that he can sleep in a heated place during the winter. Mahsun lives in Rum… |
| The Ugly King | 1966-06-16 | The story of a detective trying to solve the mafia showdown…. | |
| Love is Colder Than Death | 1994-01-01 | In the movie, the life of a singer who has problems with her husband is narrated. Belgin, who works at a night club as a belly dancer, is taken to the… | |
| O da Beni Seviyor | Masalcı | 2001-10-12 | Summer Love is a 2001 Turkish drama film directed and written by Barış Pirhasan with Gül Dirican…. |
| The Edge of Heaven | Ali Aksu | 2007-09-27 | The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reco… |
| A cavallo della tigre | Fatih | 2002-11-08 | Security guard Guido attempts a robbery to solve his financial problems, but he’s double-crossed by Antonella, the younger showgirl he left his wife f… |
| The Waterfall | Kel Selim | 2001-11-14 | The story takes place in Harbiye town of Antakya just before the 1960 military coup d’etat. The economic and political crisis of those days are reflec… |
| On a Narrow Bridge | 1985-01-02 | Directed by Nissim Dayan…. | |
| I Live When I Die | Cemal | 1965-01-01 | Duygu Sagiroglu, known as an art director, depicts the class conflict and exposes the injustice and contradictions of the modern Turkish life. Yilmaz … |
| Journey on a Clock Hand | Agah | 1997-05-02 | A Turkish watchmaker is employed to mend a village clock that has not worked for some seven years. However, what seems like a simple and un-exciting t… |
| Işıklar Sönmesin | 1996-10-25 | The struggle of Seydo, whom he was assigned to go with lieutenant Murat, in the tough geography of the Southeast Anatolia…. | |
| The Herd | Hamo | 1979-03-01 | Because of a local blood feud, a peasant family decides to sell its sheep – a most precious commodity – in far away Ankara. During their long train ri… |
| Frau Kutzer und andere Bewohner der Naunynstraße | 1973-10-01 | Frau Kutzer und andere Bewohner der Naunystraße features the war-widow Frau Kutzer, the philosopher-guest worker Niyazi, as well as other characters … | |
| At Avrat Silah | 1966-04-01 | Raised on the mountain like a son, Alicik’s path intersects with pure and clean mayfly. The love between the two becomes a challenge to life…. | |
| Kuduz Recep | Hamza | 1967-01-01 | … |
| Die Hallo-Sisters | Samy | 1990-11-29 | A run-down former radio producer persuades two quarrelsome 1950s stars to try their comeback on nationwide television…… |
| Krallar Ölmez | Komiser | 1967-01-01 | Loosely based on “The Girl Hunters” written by Mickey Spillane. After many years on a drunken binge over the disappearance of his love, Murat (Ayhan … |
| Sokakta Kan Vardı | 1965-01-01 | … | |
| Bir AÅŸk UÄŸruna | 1994-01-01 | … | |
| The Road That Has No End | Köylü | 1965-01-01 | A highly realistical first film of Duygu Sagiroglu dealing with internal emigration…. |
| Time of Vengeance | grand-father | 1990-01-01 | Orhan, who is ten years old, comes to Vienna from a small Village in Anatolia. Armed with his grandfather’s revolver, he intends to avenge his father,… |
| Sawdust Tales | Fisherman | 1997-01-02 | Sawdust Tales is a whimsical and timeless parable on survival in hard times and the force of a first love against all odds. In a timeless no-mans land… |
| Jack Hunter and the Quest for Akhenaten’s Tomb | Said | 2008-12-30 | Adventurer Jack Hunter sets off in pursuit of a legendary tomb, meeting dangerous old adversaries, and even more dangerous old flames, along the way…. |
| The Mahabharata | Shakuni | 1990-01-24 | One of the great masterpieces of world literature comes to vivid life in an elaborate production from acclaimed theater and film innovator Peter Brook… |
| Krallar Kralı | 1965-01-01 | … | |
| Vive la mariée… et la libération du Kurdistan | 1998-06-03 | Kurdish expert Hiner Saleem (Shero) wrote and directed this French comedy-drama, set inside the 100,000-population Kurdish community in Paris. The ori… | |
| Law of the Border | Bekir | 1966-10-04 | In Deliviran, a village near Urfa close to the Syrian border, Hidir’s chief is involved in smuggling and gets shot. Hidir tries to stay out of illeg… |
| Pains of Autumn | Kamil | 2009-12-23 | When a nationalistic wealthy landowner’s idealist son falls for a non-muslim prostitute, he finds himself in a conflict between his feelings and polit… |
| The Guardian Angel | Ivar | 1990-03-18 | A radical socialist is placed as a bodyguard with a minister for the purpose of murdering him. The meeting with the minister’s family complicates his … |
| The Legend of the Ugly King | Self (archive) | 2018-10-11 | Director Hüseyin Tabak explores the legacy of Yilmaz Güney — political dissident, convicted murderer, and visionary Kurdish filmmaker — who dire… |
| Istanbul Beneath My Wings | 1996-03-15 | During the sea battle which took place between the Ottoman Empire and the Italians, a ship which had been seized in the Mediterranean Sea is brought t… | |
| Code Name Coq Rouge | Al-Houl | 1989-08-25 | His name is Carl Hamilton from a Swedish noble family – trained by the CIA and a army SEAL. When a group of terrorists based in Sweden threatens to in… |
| Kalabaliken i Bender | 1983-08-26 | The famous Swedish Karoliner army has suffered its biggest defeat ever at Poltava in 1709. The Swedish king Karl XII is waiting in the small village o… | |
Tuncel Kurtiz Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Hasan the Rose | Director | 1980-06-23 | A film director comes to Stockholm claiming he is an internationally renowned filmmaker. The truth is that he is a total failure. He is counting on th… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Hasan the Rose | Writer | 1980-06-23 | A film director comes to Stockholm claiming he is an internationally renowned filmmaker. The truth is that he is a total failure. He is counting on th… |
| On Fertile Lands | Writer | 1980-01-02 | The tragic story of three farm worker who migrates from their village to the cotton land Çukurova…. |
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