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

Siyabend and Xece
1h 38m
Movie 1991

Siyabend and Xece

The mythological love story of two Kurdish youth.

Bir Kadın Düşmanı
Movie 1991

Bir Kadın Düşmanı

Uzun İnce Bir Yol
Movie 1991

Uzun İnce Bir Yol

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

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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