Who is Ayhan Işık?

Ayhan Işık (real name Ayhan Işıyan) (born May 5, 1929, Izmir - death date June 16, 1979, Istanbul), Turkish film actor, producer, director, screenwriter, sound artist and painter, nicknamed "Crownless King".

As the last child of a Thessaloniki immigrant family with six children on the morning of May 1929, 5, Ayhan Işık was born in a two-storey historical Greek house on the Mithatpaşa Street in the district of Karataş in the Izmir district of Izmir, as a “boat scrap of the family of Işıyan family”. “My childhood days have passed with known mischiefs and their consequences. I've always worried my mother. ” Işık adds in his memoirs, "Hayatım", which he started writing in the second half of the 1970s and published as a serial after his death.

When he was six years old; “… I remember very little about him now. But most of all its smell… Some nights, coming to me and hugging me, sleeping together. Once he took him fishing, and on his way back he climbed the stairs. That's all ... HafızamI always pushed for him. In order to remember more, not to forget what I remember… ”Işık, who lost his father, who he remembered by saying, begins to complete the first few years of his education in Izmir, and most of it with his eldest brother Mithat Özer, who settled in Istanbul for university education years ago. After a few short years; The older brother, who was lost at a very young age, always becomes a model personality for Işık throughout his life. Işık, who stated that he always took his progress in the field of painting as an example, and that he started to work while studying at the age of 12 in order to support the living of the house after his death, will also tell that he dreamed of going to Paris for higher education in the following years while he was at the academy.

Education Life of Ayhan Işık

Işık, who had difficulties in Istanbul for the first time, tells us in one of his interviews that he found himself in a very nice environment: “Mahir İz was the school principal, Salah Birsel principal advisor, Rıfat Ilgaz to literature, Blind Galip, loyal to physical education, and Akbaba Celal to geography. What more could I ask for… ”Some of the schoolmates here are screenwriter Safa Önal, cartoonist Ferruh Doğan and painter-cartoonist Semih Balcıoğlu. Işık, who later took lessons from Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu at the Fine Arts Academy Painting Department, is in the Tens Group with her friends here. Its purpose is to create East-West synthesis in Turkish painting; Fikret Otyam, Altan Erbulak, Remzi Raşa, Adnan Varınca, Nedim Günsür, Orhan Peker, Turan Erol, and Semih Balcıoğlu and Ferruh Doğan, who have been friends since high school, in the group that has a “Folk Art Resources” and a technique “Colorist and Lekeci”. takes place. Işık, who stated that he was mostly influenced by the impressionism movement in one of his interviews and that he was most influenced by Claude Monet in this sense, works as a painter in Bab-ı Ali for a while but he was pushed to his background in painting when he entered the contest opened by Yıldız Magazine in 1952. His orientation towards cinema begins. He wins the competition with the first place and goes to the cinema. A year later, in 1953, he graduated from the Fine Arts Academy Painting Department.

Ayhan Işık's Career

After working with the poet, screenwriter and director Orhon Murat Arıburnu in his first film, Ömer Lütfü Akad, who finished the Transition Period in Turkish Cinema and was accepted as the entrance to the Filmmakers Period, gained great fame with the film Kanun Namına. Even though he occasionally continued his painting works later in his life, cinema has now become his first priority. Işık, who played the British Kemal Lawrense in the 1950s with Ömer Lütfü Akad and made the films Against the British Kemal Lawrense, The Murderer, The Killing City, I Love a Wild Girl, Sister Bullet, Atıf Yılmaz and Şimal Yıldız, and Osman Seden in 1957, Bir Avuç Toprak in 1959 In, he wants to go to Hollywood and try his luck there. But it can't work on the movies here. When asked why: 5000 people are waiting there like me. They also have a lot of ingenuity. They jump and do two somersaults in the air. They speak English as well as their mother tongue. There is no bread for us there. Işık returns to Yeşilçam with the movie Bus Passengers, written by Vedat Türkali in the early 60s. Afterwards, he translated the movie Tricycle, which will be his last work with Akad and written by Vedat Türkali from a novel by Orhan Kemal. Işık, again, was highly appreciated by the public with his films, Küçük Hanım, which he made during these periods, and earned the title of 'Crownless King' in the ongoing period.In the 1970s, movie stars began to take the stage one after another with a new fashion wind. He also adheres to this fashion and takes lessons from Münir Nurettin Selçuk to take the stage in the Classical Turkish music branch and fills a 45 'record. With her talent in many styles, Işık offers examples in cinema, such as drama, political, romantic, comedy, adventure and other styles. Flips up to 140 movies. Since 1975, Işık, who has contributed to Turkish cinema as a producer, director and screenwriter, produces the films La Mano Che Nutre La Morte and Le Amanti Del Mostro, which he co-starred with Italian producers and shared the lead role with Klaus Kinski. Films will hit theaters in Italy and some European countries, but suffers no censorship in Turkey and the Turkish audience zamthey cannot meet at the moment.

Death of Ayhan Işık

Işık, who woke with severe headache and vomiting in the summer house in Kıyıkent, Selimpaşa against the morning of June 13, 1979, was diagnosed with brain hemorrhage as a result of aneurysm rupture in the clinic where he was hospitalized with the notice that his father-in-law was in good condition, and could not be saved at the end of the three-day coma process. He died on June 16, 1979. His grave is at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery.

All Movies in Chronological Order 

Year	Movie	Role
1951	Yavuz Sultan Selim and Janissary Hasan	Janissary Hasan
1952	Against British Kemal Lawrense	Ahmet Esat / British Kemal
	For the Law	Nazim Usta
1953	Blood Money
	Join	Kemal
	Wild Desire
	Killing City	Ali
1954	I liked a wild girl	Captain Adil
	Şimal Star	Lieutenant Kemal
1955	Sister Bullet	Orhan
1956	Ape of Vengeance	ekrem
1957	A Handful of Soil	Omer
1958	Let's Die Together
	Unknown Heroes	Osman
1960	In Our Pursuit of Death	Burhan
	Anger of the Giants	Wind Halil
	Bloody Escape	Tahir Somyurek
	There Is Fire Old Istanbul Bullies	Murad Reis
1961	Bus Passengers	Bus Driver Kemal
	Wanderer Mustafa	Wanderer Mustafa
	Either he or me	Sincere
	Little Lady	Omer Sahinoglu
	Sweet Sin	Fikret
	Superior to love	Major Kemal
	Cute Bandit	Osman
1962	Tricycle	Ali
	Young Lady in Europe	Omer
	Zorlu Groom	Necdet / Hasan
	Bitter life	Mehmet
	Allah Said Love You
	The Lady of the Lady	Omer Sahinoglu
	Double Wedding
	The Fortune of the Little Lady
	One of Rıfat	Rifat
	Troubled Grandchild	Namik
1963	Bahriyeli Ahmet	Bahriyeli Ahmet
	Confused Father	Kemal
	First Eye Pain	Turgut
	Susceptible	Suat
	Little Brain Fortune	Suat
	Two Husband Women
	Broken Key
	Halal Ali Ali Abi	Ali
	King of Adventures	Erol
	Come slowly, my beauty	Ayhan Kocairfanoglu
	Wounded Lion	Ayhan
	Ayşecik My Heart	Orhan
1964	My king friend	Ayhan Gunes
	Fast Survivors	Orhan
	Across the Law	Selim
	The Gorgeous Tramp	Naci
	Kiss My Mother's Hand	Tarik
	Women's Tailor
	Folk Boy	Ahmet
	The Killer's Daughter	Ayhan
	My Coach
	Country Girl	Necmi
	Hizir Dede	Orhan
	Fantastic Cousins	Fikret Soylu / Ahmet
	Coiffeur	Erol
	King of Drivers	Hasan
1965	Firecracker Necmi	Firecracker Necmi
	For My Honor	Murata
	Joy Tears	Ayhan Cakmak
	Endless Nights	Osman
	Forbidden Paradise
	If the woman wants	Merchant İrfan Ersoy
	Road to the Sun	Nazmi Ozdemir
	College Girl's Love	Ayhan
	Repairman Part	Iron
	Number of Minutes	Tarik
	Daughter of the driver	Ayhan Gurhan
1966	We have ordered Istanbul
	Shoot Order	Ali
	The law is mine	Orhan / Tarik
	The prisoner of death	Ahmet
	Istanbul in Terror	Kemal
	Black Cars	Kenan
	Golden Man	Murata
	Murderers also cry	Murata
	Revenge of the Gambler	Murat Soylu
	Lion claw	Ismail Sonmez
	Knives Fora	Orhan
1967	Iron wrist
	Lonely man
	Little Lady	Bülent
	Great Grudge	Omer
	Kings Don't Die	Agent Murat
	Time of Death	Ahmet
	Red Danger
	They murdered me	Ali
	Lionheart Bully	Black haydar
	King of the Nights	Kenan
	Mustafa from Galata	Mustafa
	Painful Days	Turgut
	Pride in Destruction	Bülent
1968	Plums Bloomed	Orhan
1969	The man that I love	Murata
	Not in the morning	Ahmet / Orhan
	Guardians of Ayşecik Home	Murata
	Snake Line	Orhan
	Wire netting	Omer
	Fact	Captain Kemal
	Cingöz Recai	Cingöz Recai
	Guardians of Ayşecik Home	Murata
	The man of my life	Ferit Akman / Sedat Caglayan
	Fire in Karlıdağ	Yusuf
1970	It's Not Easy To Live	orhan
	The Lady of the Lady
	The Man in the Shadow	ekrem
	Till I die	Nexhat
	Letter from Dungeon	Ali
	Champion	Nihat
	Let's Die If We Die	White Dinar
	Eagle of the Mountains	Shehmuz
	Stolen Life	Mehmet Guler
	All Love Begins Sweet	Murata
1971	I Live With Honor	Murata
	My everything is you	Ahmet / Feridun
	I'm Not Afraid of Death	Murata
	Angel of Fatos Streets	Murata
	Sezercik Yavrum Mine	Tarik
	Beyoğlu Law	Vedat
1972	Big Trouble	Murata
	Lawman	Big Wolf
	Broken Ladder	Kemal
	Destiny Passengers	Omer
	White Wolf	Mustafa
	Son
	Twenty Years Later	Nazim Usta
1973	If you have a daughter, you have a problem	Adnan
	Black haydar	Black haydar
	The Breath of Death (La Mano che Nutre La Morte)	Doctor Igor
1975	Poppy	Şahin
	Hara-kiri	Typhoon
1976	Organization
	Kana Kan	Ali
1977	Fire	C. Prosecutor Selçuk Ünver
1979	Death is mine