Ali Çatalbas Ali Çatalbaş

Ali Çatalbaş — Biography

Ali Çatalbaş is a stage actor associated with the Ortaoyuncular company and a one-man play he wrote himself; to a wider audience he is the Tayfun of the Kolpaçino films. His career moves between theatre, cinema and television, and he has kept his link with the stage.

After studying philosophy at Istanbul University he joined Nöbetçi Tiyatro in 1986. Two years later he turned professional at Ortaoyuncular with the play İstanbul'u Satıyorum, sharing the stage with masters such as Münir Özkul and Erol Günaydın. He took part in many of the company's productions and wrote and performed the one-man play Kötü Çocuk. Other stage work includes İşsizler Cennete Gider, Nasri Hoca ve Muhalif Eşeği and Masal Müfettişi. On screen he appeared from the late 1990s: from On Kadın and Bahtiyar Ölmez onward he was seen in series such as Varsayalım İsmail, Hayat A.Ş., Savcının Karısı, Kısmetim Otel and Başım Belada, and he acted in Akbank and Komili commercials.

In cinema he played Aydın in Pardon (2005) and Captain Hakan in Destere (2008). With Kolpaçino (2009) he created the character Tayfun and kept the role in Kolpaçino Bomba (2011) and Kolpaçino 3. Devre (2016); in Hep Yek 2 (2017) he played Manyak Kerim. Kolpaçino 4 4'lük, Dalavere and Sonradan Gurme also appear in his filmography.