Tarık Akan

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Dec 13, 1949 (75 years old)
Death date
Sep 16, 2016

Tarık Akan

Known For

The Legend of the Ugly King
2h 2m
Movie 2017

The Legend of the Ugly King

Director Hüseyin Tabak explores the legacy of Yilmaz Güney — political dissident, convicted murderer, and visionary Kurdish filmmaker — who directed the 1982 Palme d'Or–winning Yol from inside prison and died in exile just two years later.

Gece Yürüyüşü
TV Show 2004

Gece Yürüyüşü

Berdel
1h 25m
Movie 1990

Berdel

Family relations begins to get rough when father of the house desperately insists to have a boy and his first wife gives birth to their forth daughter.

Devlerin Ölümü
1h 15m
Movie 1990

Devlerin Ölümü

About a director who fights for making a different film about relationships between the sexes.

Bir Küçük Bulut
Movie 1990

Bir Küçük Bulut

Layla, Ma Raison
1h 30m
Movie 1989

Layla, Ma Raison

Since childhood, Qays and Layla have been in love. Qays, being a poet, publicly sings of his love, crying it out joyously far and wide - just the sort of public proclamation which was strictly condemned at the time. Distraught yet fearless, Qays stubbornly proclaims with all the more vigor his love for Layla, who remains entrapped by her own clan.

İsa, Musa, Meryem
Movie 1989

İsa, Musa, Meryem

El Kapıları
1h 23m
Movie 1988

El Kapıları

When Zeynel goes away to work, her lover Elif is adopted by a rich aga. After a while, it is heard that Elif is pregnant.

Biography

Tarık Akan (born Tarık Tahsin Üregül, 13 December 1949 – 16 September 2016) was a Turkish film actor and producer, who started his activity in the 1970s. He acted in a total of 110 films, and won numerous awards from various festivals including Cannes and Berlin. He won an Honourable Mention at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival for his role in Pehlivan. He entered a movie actor contest of the magazine Ses ("Voice"), and ended up runner up. He studied acting under the eye of famous Turkish film director Ertem Eğilmez (1929–1989). He made his film debut in 1970 at the age of 21 in Vefasız, and adopted the stage name "Tarık Akan". Between 1970 and 1975, in the heyday of Yeşilçam, he acted in 12 films a year in average. He appeared with Emel Sayın in Mavi Boncuk, Hülya Koçyiğit in Sev Kardeşim, Hale Soygazi in Gece Kuşu Zehra, and entered into the "list of unforgettables" with Hababam Sınıfı. At first, most of his roles were in romantic comedies. Later in his career, he has taken on more political and dramatic roles. The first film of this genre was Nehir, in which he shared the role with Cüneyt Arkın. Political films like Maden, Sürü, Yol and Kanal followed.

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