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Necmettin Çobanoğlu

Necmettin Çobanoğlu

Actor · 73 years old

Mahmut in the series Aşk ve Mavi

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Age73
Birth dateMarch 1, 1953
BirthplaceErzincan
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signPisces
Eye colorBrown

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Necmettin Çobanoğlu — Biography

A role in Yılmaz Güney's Yol and the lead part of Haydar in Umuda Yolculuk (Journey of Hope), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 63rd Academy Awards, made Turkish actor Necmettin Çobanoğlu known. His working life in cinema, which began behind the camera, was honored with the Cinema Labor Award at the 47th Golden Orange Film Festival in 2010. He now appears as Mahmut in ATV's series Aşk ve Mavi.

He was born in the village of Hanzar in Erzincan's Refahiye district. He entered cinema in 1967 as a helper on film sets; after military service he worked on sets and as a stuntman in Yeşilçam, then moved into production. His acting began in 1979; he played Ömer in Yol, Fazıl in Kan and Ramazan in Katırcılar. In 1990 he took the lead in Journey of Hope, and in Yara he played the father. In the 2000s he played Ökkes in Asi, Abdullah in Janjan and Dilber's father in Dilber'in Sekiz Günü. Later he played Mirza in İz, Davut in Benim İçin Üzülme and Haydar Ağa in The Lamb.

As a manager of the film workers' union Sine-Sen, he was put on trial after the 1980 coup and acquitted in 1992. He stood as an ÖDP candidate for parliament in the 1999 election, but the party did not pass the threshold.

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Their work through different eyes

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

To get to know Necmettin Çobanoğlu, Sürü, Yol and Umuda Yolculuk are enough. Sürü is a politically charged drama of a family in the east by Zeki Ökten and Yılmaz Güney; in Yol he plays Ömer; in Umuda Yolculuk, as Haydar, he is at the center of the film. In my view his real weight in cinema lies in these three: films that take on social questions head-on, with strong directorial signatures. His later appearance in a harsh rural drama like Kuzu comes from the same vein.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

Put together, Necmettin Çobanoğlu's roles make a consistent social portrait of the worker, the villager and the father: a factory worker in Yolcular, the worker Ömer in Eve Dönüş, Zühre's father in Saklı Yüzler, the father in Yara. He mostly plays people at the edge of the country whose voices are rarely heard. Eve Dönüş taking up the period after September 12 fits this line. In my view the value of his career lies in having carried, year after year and without exaggeration, the working face of one generation.

These are not reader reviews: they are short editorial takes on this person's screen work, written from different viewer perspectives with AI assistance. Reader comments are below.

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