Münir Özkul (August 15, 1925, Istanbul - January 5, 2018, Istanbul), Turkish comedic, theater and film actor.
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Münir Özkul is a graduate of Istanbul Erkek High School. He started his artistic career when he was a high school student in 1940 with theater in Bakırköy Community Center. He attended Istanbul University Faculty of Economics and the Art History Department of the Faculty of Letters for a while.
He became professional with the play “Aşk Köprüsü” staged at Ses Theater in 1948. Later he moved to Küçük Sahne, under Muhsin Ertuğrul. During this period, he played in John Steinbeck's Mice and People (1951), John Millington Synge's Babayiğit, George Axelrod's Summer Bachelor (1954), John Patrick's Teahouse (1955). Later, he worked in Istanbul City Theaters (1958-59), Ankara State Theater (1959-60) and Bulvar Theater in Istanbul Aksaray with his friends (1960-62). Between 1963-67 he toured with various groups; zaman zamthere were times when he was away from the stage. He worked with actors such as Sadri Alışık, Cahit Irgat, Nevin Akkaya and Şükran Güngör in private theaters.
He returned to the City Theaters in 1978. In 1983-84, he appeared at the Dormen Theater with Jean Anouilh's play "The General's Love", which was previously staged in his own company (1961) and attracted great attention. In the mid-1980s, he joined Ferhan Şensoy's Ortaoyuncular ensemble and said goodbye to the stages after taking part in four plays, including “İstanbul'u Satiyorum”.
Özkul won the Ilhan Iskender Award for his role in Sadık Şendil's Kanlı Nigar, played in the Altan Karındaş ensemble in 1968. Again, following this success, İsmail Dümbüllü gave the symbolic turban, which he took over from Kel Hasan, to Özkul (Özkul handed over this turban to Ferhan Şensoy in 50.). She won Avni Dilligil (1989), Ulvi Uraz (1978), İsmet Küntay (1978) and İsmail Dümbüllü (1979) awards for her role in Haldun Taner's play Sersem Koc's Kurnaz Wife (1979).
Özkul started to act in cinema since the 1950s. Edi and Büdü, Fisherman Beauty and My Heart's Song are the highlights of his early films. He was praised for the characters he portrayed in cinema after 1965.
In the 1970s, he played important roles in films with large staff and usually directed by Ertem Eğilmez. One of his most well-known roles was the character of “Kel Mahmut”, the sweet tough vice principal of the Private Çamlıca High School in the Hababam Class series that became synonymous with him. Some of the family films with crowded staff that were shot during this period when Özkul was in the cast are Blue Beads, Our Family, Family Honor, Smiling Eyes, Joyful Days, Gırgıriye and Empathy. Together with Adile Naşit for most of these films, she formed one of the unforgettable duo of Turkish cinema. After 1980, he took part in many films shot for the current video.
Özkul, who has appeared in more than 200 films throughout his career, won the "best actor" award at the 1972 Golden Orange Film Festival with his play in Sev Kardeşim. He won a special award at the 1977 Azerbaijan Film Festival for his role as "Yaşar Usta" in the movie "Our Family". He also worked as assistant director in the movie "Süt Kardeşler".
The character of İbiş, portrayed in "İbiş's Dream", which was transferred from Tarık Buğra's novel to television and portrayed a section of Naşit Özcan's life story, is also among the unforgettable. Although he stayed away from acting in the 90s, when television series started to become widespread, Alien starred in TV series such as Zekiye, Ana Kuzusu and Şaban and Şirin. Finally, in the early 2000s, the rating Hamdi, in which Hamdi Alkan's character “Yarmagül” played his grandfather, was in front of the camera on the television program.
The 1980th year of art was celebrated with a jubilee in 40 and the 1996th year of art was celebrated at the Atatürk Cultural Center in 55. In 1998, Münir Özkul was awarded the title of "state artist" by the Ministry of Culture.
Private life
Özkul was married four times and had three children. His first wife is Şadan, his second wife is Suna Selen, his third wife is Yaşar, and his last wife is Oman Özkul, whom he married in 1986. He is the father of the actor and server Güner Özkul. According to Güner Özkul, his father "was not afraid of marriage, but he was afraid not to divorce".
Özkul, who spent most of his life fighting alcohol, quit alcohol completely in the mid-1990s.
Disease and death
Özkul, who has been struggling with dementia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease since 2003, has not wanted to go out of his house and meet with anyone since then. The actress, who suffered from memory loss due to her illness, thought that many of her deceased acquaintances were alive. Unfounded death reports came out many times during his long illness. He died at the age of 5 in his home in Cihangir district of Beyoğlu on January 2018, 92. He was buried in the family cemetery in Bakırköy Cemetery after the funeral prayer at Teşvikiye Mosque, following the commemoration event held at Harbiye Muhsin Ertuğrul Stage on January 7, 2018.
Theatrical plays
- Love Bridge
- I'm Selling Istanbul (1987-88)
- Abstract Sultan
- Dumb husband's cunning wife
- Çayhane
- Of Mice and Humans
- Kesanlı Ali Epic
- Tired Matador
- hababam class
- Babayigit
- Summer Single
- The General's Love
- Bloody Nigar
Films
| Movies | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Movie | Role | |
| 1950 | Favorite of the Third Selim | ||
| 1951 | Barbaros Hayreddin Pasha | ||
| 1951 | Married or single | ||
| 1951 | Lale devri | ||
| 1951 | Vatan and Namık Kemal | ||
| 1951 | Yavuz Sultan Selim and Janissary Hasan | ||
| 1952 | Edi and Büdi | ||
| 1952 | Edi and Büdü Theater | ||
| 1953 | Fisherman Beauty | ||
| 1953 | Carpet Girl | ||
| 1955 | A love story | ||
| 1955 | Key / A Love Story | ||
| 1956 | Song of My Heart | Munir | |
| 1956 | For Inheritance | ||
| 1958 | Gilded cage | ||
| 1958 | Slander | ||
| 1959 | homesickness | ||
| 1960 | Doll | ||
| 1960 | Yaman Journalist | Yaman | |
| 1961 | A spring evening | ||
| 1961 | Brat | ||
| 1965 | 65 Hosni | ||
| 1965 | Who knows wins | ||
| 1965 | Cezmi Band 007.5 | ||
| 1965 | Don't Touch I Disrupt | ||
| 1965 | Hearts | ||
| 1965 | Bullet with the Sore | Saucepan Münir | |
| 1965 | 'Blood Carries the Body | Poison Hafiye | |
| 1965 | Card Rooster | ||
| 1965 | Once a year | ||
| 1965 | Yigit Sev | ||
| 1965 | Endless Nights | Zuhtu | |
| 1965 | Liar's Candle | ||
| 1965 | Stubborn Bride | ||
| 1965 | Are you sweet Wow Wow | ||
| 1965 | We Have Driver Nebahat Misdemeanor | ||
| 1966 | I'm a Street Woman | ||
| 1966 | A Nation Awakens | Fox Corporal | |
| 1966 | Sailors Are Coming | ||
| 1966 | I Loved A Poor Girl | ||
| 1966 | I love you | ||
| 1966 | My Darling Was An Artist | ||
| 1967 | goodbye | ||
| 1967 | The Girl You Slut | ||
| 1967 | Wet eyes | ||
| 1967 | Double Gun Groom | ||
| 1967 | Till I die | ||
| 1968 | I will not love anymore | Ahmet | |
| 1968 | Stranger in my heart | ||
| 1968 | Bloody Nigar | Suitable | |
| 1968 | My Black Eyed | ||
| 1968 | 'Nilgun | ||
| 1968 | Urfa Istanbul | Doctor | |
| 1968 | Highland Eagle | ||
| 1968 | There is a Revel in Istanbul | ||
| 1969 | Ayşecik and Ömercik | Marten Nuri | |
| 1969 | They Call Me Highlighter | ||
| 1969 | Empty Frame | Ferhat | |
| 1969 | The poor daughter Leyla | ||
| 1969 | Bride Aysem | ||
| 1969 | April Rain | ||
| 1969 | The bride in love | ||
| 1969 | My dear father | ||
| 1969 | Sleepless nights | ||
| 1970 | Ali and Veli | ||
| 1970 | Honey Honey Honey Honey | ||
| 1970 | Berduş Girl | ||
| 1970 | All Love Begins Sweet | ||
| 1970 | Attention Blood Wanted | ||
| 1970 | Don't come back to me darling | ||
| 1970 | My life is sacrificed for you | Mehmet | |
| 1970 | Lord of my heart | ||
| 1970 | Black Berry | ||
| 1970 | Little Lady | ||
| 1970 | What a Seven Doesn't | ||
| 1970 | Last Angry Man | ||
| 1970 | My sweet angel | ||
| 1970 | yavrum | ||
| 1970 | Fist Market | ||
| 1970 | Birds Without Nest | ||
| 1970 | Driver Nebahat | ||
| 1971 | Ayşecik and the Magical Dwarfs in the Land of Dreams | ||
| 1971 | Love story | Sugar Ahmet | |
| 1971 | For the sake of love | ||
| 1971 | Like a Baby Mashallah | Hosni | |
| 1971 | Expected Song | ||
| 1971 | White Butterflies | ||
| 1971 | Beyoğlu Guzeli | ||
| 1971 | Donchette False Knight | ||
| 1971 | Heart Thief | Salih rice | |
| 1971 | Hayat Sevince Güzel | ||
| 1971 | My life is yours | ||
| 1971 | Velvet Pouch | ||
| 1971 | Once a year | ||
| 1971 | Like a Fading Leaf | ||
| 1971 | The Last Hiccup | ||
| 1971 | Ahmet from Tophane | ||
| 1971 | 7 Hormuz with husband | ||
| 1971 | Against the Ibish Gangsters | ||
| 1971 | Here is the Camel, Here is the Trench | ||
| 1972 | Death of the Lions | ||
| 1972 | Karaman Sheep | ||
| 1972 | Under That Tree | ||
| 1972: | Love brother | Mesut Guler | |
| 1972 | My sweet tongue | ||
| 1972 | Repentant sinner | ||
| 1972 | Give me God give | ||
| 1972 | The fate of the valiant | ||
| 1972 | Three Lovers | ||
| 1973 | Suffering | Ahmet | |
| 1973 | Intention | ||
| 1973 | Oh get it | Master Burhan | |
| 1973 | False Half | ||
| 1973 | Chulsuz Ali | ||
| 1973 | Saban in Istanbul | ||
| 1974 | Five Chickens One Rooster | ||
| 1974 | gariban | Poet Cevat | |
| 1974 | Longing | ||
| 1974 | Blue bead | Father Yasar | |
| 1974 | Idiot Millionaire | Sergeant Mehmet | |
| 1974 | Lives Neither Lives nor Lives | ||
| 1974 | hababam class | Bald Mahmut | |
| 1975 | Can You Give Five Million Loan | Munir Ozkul | |
| 1975 | Our family | Yasar | |
| 1975 | Night Owl Zehra | ||
| 1975 | gülşah | ||
| 1975 | My Friend's Class Remained | Bald Mahmut | |
| 1976 | Family Honor | consent | |
| 1976 | My class is awakening | Bald Mahmut | |
| 1977 | Children of Heaven | Hasan | |
| 1977 | smiling eyes | Yasar Usta | |
| 1977 | My class is on vacation | Bald Mahmut | |
| 1978 | My chaos gives birth to nine | Bald Mahmut | |
| 1978 | Happy Days | Kazım | |
| 1979 | Tears of Love | ||
| 1979 | Male Beauty Miserable Bilo | hüso | |
| 1979 | Ibiş's Dream | Nahid | |
| 1980 | Banker Bill | Hasan | |
| 1980 | Crazy in Germany | ||
| 1980 | Ibiso | ||
| 1981 | Our Street | ||
| 1981 | Madman Ward | ||
| 1981 | Girgiriye | Emin | |
| 1981 | There is a Festival in the Whirlpool | Emin | |
| 1982 | Gilded cage | ||
| 1982 | The crying didn't laugh? | ||
| 1982 | Remember me | ||
| 1982 | One Sip of Happiness | ||
| 1982 | Here, Cümbüşe | ||
| 1982 | Wind of Wrath | ||
| 1982 | Clumsy's | ||
| 1982 | wet wipes | Magnitude | |
| 1982 | Fortune Bird | ||
| 1982 | Şıngirdak Şadiye | ||
| 1983 | Thanks to friends | Tahir Baba | |
| 1983 | There's a Revel in the Gırgıriye | Emin | |
| 1983 | Relationship | ||
| 1983 | Confused Duck | ||
| 1984 | Livelihood Bus | Nasreddin | |
| 1984 | Great Choice in Gırgriya | Emin | |
| 1984 | Girls Class | Mahmut Hodja | |
| 1984 | I'm desperate | ||
| 1984 | Confused Bride | ||
| 1985 | Cardinal sin | ||
| 1985 | Everyday Holiday | ||
| 1985 | Will you hear my cry | ||
| 1985 | My Strange Gazelle | ||
| 1985 | Turning the Corner | ||
| 1985 | Lovebirds | ||
| 1985 | Ranters | ||
| 1985 | Yellow Ox Coin | ||
| 1985 | Ya Ya Şa Şa Şa | Hasan | |
| 1985 | Stolen Life | ||
| 1985 | Şişeli Village | ||
| 1986 | This is our article | ||
| 1986 | Mom's lap | ||
| 1986 | Fathers Also Cry | ||
| 1986 | Can't Get Out of Heaven | ||
| 1986 | I am a strongman, brothers | ||
| 1986 | Bread Money | ||
| 1986 | Who Bit The Apple | ||
| 1986 | Gülmece Güldürmece / My Poppies | ||
| 1986 | My lamb | ||
| 1986 | Little Agam | ||
| 1986 | The Most Beautiful of Destiny | ||
| 1986 | Girls Class on Vacation | ||
| 1986 | Fendi of Melek Hanim | ||
| 1986 | Billionaire | Mahmut | |
| 1986 | Look At Joy | ||
| 1986 | Töre | ||
| 1987 | Afife Jale | ||
| 1987 | Family Pension | Murtaza | |
| 1987 | Finding | ||
| 1987 | Missile Nuri | ||
| 1987 | Sin | ||
| 1987 | Unfortunate Servants | ||
| 1987 | Siege 2 / Shock | ||
| 1987 | Bus Passengers / İhsaniye - Karasu | ||
| 1987 | Key point | ||
| 1987 | I have to live | ||
| 1987 | Home Destroyed | ||
| 1987 | Years | ||
| 1988 | A Ay | ||
| 1988 | Bitter expatriate | ||
| 1988 | Arabesque | ||
| 1993 | Take My Lips | ||
| 1993 | Zeyrek Slope | Emin Master | |
| 1996 | The Moon is Hidden in Its Light | ||
Television
| Television | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Dizi | ||
| 1979 | Ibiş's Dream | ||
| 1984 | Corner Spinner | ||
| 1987 | Alien Zekiye | ||
| 1991 | The Price of a Lifetime | ||
| 1991 | Suppose Ismail | ||
| 1993 | Nasreddin Hodja | ||
| 1994 | Girls Class | ||
| 1996-1997 | Mother Lamb | ||
| 1997 | Saban and Smurf | ||
| 2000-2002 | Rating Hamdi | ||
Awards
| Year | Prize | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Gift of İlhan İskender | Bloody Nigâr with the game |
| 1972 | 9th Golden Orange Film Festival, Best Actor Award | Love brother |
| 1991 | The Dumpling Award | |
| 1997 | Golden Butterfly Awards Honor Award | |
| 1999 | Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Performing Arts "Muhsin Ertuğrul Theater Labor Award" | |
| 2004 | 37th Cinema Writers Association Awards Honorary Award | |
| 2006 | International Istanbul Theater Festival Honor Award | |
| 2014 | 18. Afife Theater Awards, Muhsin Ertuğrul Special Award | : |
| 2015 | Republic of Turkey Presidency Culture and Art Grand Award. |
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