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Erol Günaydın is a Actor Turquee born on 16 april 1933

Erol Günaydın

Erol Günaydın
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Nationality Turquie
Birth 16 april 1933
Death 15 october 2012 (at 79 years) at Istanbul (Turquie)

Erol Günaydın (April 16, 1933 – October 15, 2012) was a Turkish theater and film actor, as well as a renowned showman famous particularly for his portrayal of Nasreddin Hoca and his performances in the traditional Turkish meddah (one man shows). In 1955 was played in Haldun Dormen Pocket Theater, "The priest ran away" from a professional actor began his career with the game. In theater since 1955 and in cinema since 1960, he recently celebrated his golden jubilee together with the fortieth anniversary of his marriage with spouse Güneş Günaydın, a native of Manisa, in company of his children, one of whom married into an Italian family.

Erol Günaydın was born in Akçaabat, Trabzon Province, and became involved in theater while he was a student in Galatasaray High School. He played in a very varied range of plays and character roles in films since then and became nationally famous especially once he also started appearing in TV shows on a frequent basis, first as the Turkish voice of Yogi Bear, and then in his Nasreddin Hoca and meddah shows, with also a leading role in the very successful TV serial "Çiçek Taxi". He is one of the best known faces in Turkey's world of performing arts.

His memoirs, put in writing in the form of long interview with the journalist Emine Algan, were published in 2007.

Usually with

Mahsun Kırmızıgül
Mahsun Kırmızıgül
(2 films)
Yılmaz Atadeniz
Yılmaz Atadeniz
(1 films)
Ali Sürmeli
Ali Sürmeli
(2 films)
Ferhan Şensoy
Ferhan Şensoy
(1 films)
Nejat Uygur
Nejat Uygur
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Erol Günaydın (6 films)

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I Saw the Sun
I Saw the Sun (2009)
, 2h
Directed by Mahsun Kırmızıgül
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Mahsun Kırmızıgül, Demet Evgar, Ali Sürmeli, Buğra Gülsoy, Erol Günaydın, Yiğit Özşener
Rating65% 3.2988453.2988453.2988453.2988453.298845
The film tells of a Kurdish family who head to İstanbul from their village in southeastern Turkey. Part of the family tries to emigrate to Norway.
Sewage
Sewage (2009)
, 1h30
Genres Comedy
Actors Erol Günaydın
Rating51% 2.552482.552482.552482.552482.55248
There
There (2009)
, 1h36
Actors Dolunay Soysert, Sinan Tuzcu, Erol Günaydın
Rating57% 2.859752.859752.859752.859752.85975
When the matriarch of an Istanbul family dies in a home for the elderly, the son and the daughter bury their mother and set off to find their father, a recluse in the family house on one of the Princes' Islands. As the three members of the family come together, it turns into a day of painful confrontations.
Beyaz Melek
Beyaz Melek (2007)
, 1h55
Directed by Mahsun Kırmızıgül
Origin Turquie
Genres Drama
Actors Mahsun Kırmızıgül, Yıldız Kenter, Erol Günaydın, Gazanfer Özcan, Yavuz Bingöl, Nejat Uygur
Roles Vahit
Rating64% 3.249323.249323.249323.249323.24932
Ali and Reşat bring their father Ahmet who is suffering from brain cancer for chemotherapy treatment in Istanbul. Unable to bear the treatment and thinking himself to be a burden, Ahmet runs away from the hospital and manages to reach a home for elders. The residents believe him to be abandoned by his children and take him in. Ali and Reşat find him but decide to let him stay when they see that he is happy there. They learn the stories and backgrounds of each of the elders. Two of them, Yaşar and Nebahat have fallen in love and plan to get married. Ahmet arrangers for a big wedding and invites them to his home village in Diyarbakır for their honeymoon together with all the other elders.
Pardon
Pardon (2005)
, 1h34
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Ferhan Şensoy, Erol Günaydın, Zeki Alasya
Roles İbrahim'in babası
Rating80% 4.047884.047884.047884.047884.04788
Based on a true event, Pardon tells the tragicomic story of three friends who end up in prison when they are mistaken as members of a terrorist organization. Some sequences of the film were shot in Sinop Fortress Prison.