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Talat Bulut
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Talat Bulut

Actor · 70 years old

Halit in the series Yasak Elma

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Age70
Birth dateMarch 23, 1956
BirthplaceKars
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signAries
Eye colorBrown
EducationActing training

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Talat Bulut — Biography

Turkish actor and dubbing artist Talat Bulut, born Talat Dumanlı, has worked in Turkish cinema since the late 1970s. Film audiences came to know him through Manisa Tarzanı, and television audiences through the lead role of Halit Argun in the FOX series Yasak Elma; the character was written out by death in 2020, which ended his time on the show.

He left Hacettepe University's electronic engineering program in his second year for the theater and made his stage debut in 1975 at Ankara Sanat Tiyatrosu with Dimitrof, staying with the company for many years. Encouraged by Türkan Şoray, he stepped in front of the camera and began his film career in 1979 with Hazal. In 1983-1984 Derman and Firar, in which he shared the lead with Hülya Koçyiğit, made his name. He paused for a time as Turkish film output declined, then returned more selectively in the 1990s with films such as Manisa Tarzanı and Melekler Evi. Later he worked mostly in television, with Annem, Saklambaç, Kasaba, Göç Zamanı and Yasak Elma; on the big screen, Mutluluk and his Mahir Öğretmen in Mucize stand out.

His awards include best supporting actor at the Golden Orange for Derman (1983), best actor at the Ankara International Film Festival for Manisa Tarzanı (1994), the Turkish Film Critics Association's best supporting actor prize for Abuzer Kadayıf, and best actor at the Golden Orange for Melekler Evi (2000).

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

Ömer Kavur gives Talat Bulut Hasan in Göl and, eighteen years later, Ahmet in Melekler Evi; a director returning to the same actor after such a gap says something in itself, in my view. With Tahsin in Şerif Gören's village-shot Derman, these three films leave room for a more finely worked performance than his television roles do.

Series Binger A series devotee tracking character arcs, cast chemistry and season pacing.

Halit Argun in Yasak Elma is the part that made Talat Bulut most visible on television, and Demir Gümüşay in Tuzak sits in another series turning on revenge and family interests. Both are melodramas that keep the tension high. In my view television does not stretch him the way Göl or Melekler Evi in cinema do.

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

Mahir, the teacher sent almost into exile to a remote village in Mucize, and Ahmet Bedevi, who sets out to make a ruined city green in Manisa Tarzanı: Talat Bulut's defining roles are men at the edge of their society, trying to hold something up on their own. The aftermath of the War of Independence, or the shadow of the coup in the 1960s, turns these characters from individuals into witnesses of an era.

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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