Cüneyt Arkın

Cüneyt Arkın

Film director · died at 84

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Agedied at 84
Birth dateSeptember 8, 1937
BirthplaceOdunpazarı
DiedJune 28, 2022
ProfessionFilm director, Screenwriter, Film producer, Physician
Zodiac signVirgo

Cüneyt Arkın — Biography

Fahrettin Cüreklibatır, known by the screen name Cüneyt Arkın (1937, Eskişehir - 28 June 2022, Istanbul), was a Turkish actor, director, screenwriter, producer and physician.

He qualified at the Istanbul Faculty of Medicine and practised for a time as a doctor in Feke, in Adana province. A magazine competition in 1964 opened the way into cinema, and he went on to more than three hundred films and series. Audiences identified him with historical heroes such as Malkoçoğlu, Kara Murat and Battal Gazi, while he was also the romantic lead opposite Türkan Şoray, Fatma Girik, Hülya Koçyiğit and Filiz Akın.

A black belt in karate and a skilled horseman, he refused doubles and paid for it with repeated fractures and injuries. He wrote scripts for many of his films, directed some of them and produced others, among them Küskün Çiçek. His cult reputation abroad rests on Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam (1982), Çetin İnanç's shoestring science-fiction picture built partly on lifted Star Wars footage.

He was named best actor at the Golden Orange in 1969 for İnsanlar Yaşadıkça and at the Golden Boll in 1972 for Yaralı Kurt, and received the Presidential Grand Award for Culture and Art in 2021. He died on 28 June 2022, aged 84, and was buried at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery.

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