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Tarık Ünlüoğlu

Tarık Ünlüoğlu

Actor · died at 68

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Age at death68
Birth dateAugust 9, 1951
Birthplaceİzmir
DiedOctober 1, 2019
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signLeo
Eye colorBrown
EducationAnkara State Conservatory, Opera Department
SpouseGülenay Kalkan

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Tarık Ünlüoğlu — Biography

Tarık Ünlüoğlu was an actor who spent years at the state theaters of Ankara and Istanbul and who reached wide audiences on screen as the character Testere Necmi in Kurtlar Vadisi. Born Reşat Tarık Ünlüoğlu, he died in Istanbul on October 1, 2019, and is still remembered by colleagues and viewers on the anniversaries of his death.

After İzmir Namık Kemal High School he entered the Ankara State Conservatory, studied opera for a year and then moved to the theater department. The first and longest part of his career was spent on stage: he worked for more than twenty years at the Ankara State Theatre, in plays such as Cimri, Arturo Ui'nin Önlenebilir Yükselişi, Martı and Uyarca, and in 1983 he also appeared in the Ankara Sanat Tiyatrosu production of Galile'nin Yaşamı. He then moved to the Istanbul State Theatre, where Taraf Tutmak was staged and where he also took an administrative post. Alongside the theater he worked in film and television as an actor and voice artist.

His screen career began in 2001 with Nasıl Evde Kaldım. Kurtlar Vadisi (2003) made him widely recognized, followed by the series Gümüş, Benim Annem Bir Melek (Cahit Turuncu) and Avrupa Avrupa. In cinema he played Edremit in the Eyvah Eyvah series, Hıdır in Sümela'nın Şifresi: Temel, Cemal in Berlin Kaplanı and Adem in Bal Kaymak (2018); Kara Bela and Bana Masal Anlatma (2015) are also in his filmography. He appeared as Ünal Kaplan in Eşkıya Dünyaya Hükümdar Olmaz (2015). He was married to the actress Gülenay Kalkan.

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Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

The fastest way into Tarık Ünlüoğlu is Kurtlar Vadisi: Testere Necmi is the best-known character of that crime-and-politics action series. Then there is Kabadayı, a story about a retired neighborhood tough, with action, drama and crime together. Bayrampaşa: Ben Fazla Kalmayacağım is a prison film; the pace may be slower but the world is hard.

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

What stands out in Tarık Ünlüoğlu's filmography is the move from hard worlds to comedy. The distance between Testere Necmi in Kurtlar Vadisi and comedies such as Eyyvah Eyvah 2 and Berlin Kaplanı is large; Ziya Hurşit Bey in Cumhuriyet asks for yet another register, the seriousness of a historical film. In my view this is exactly what a supporting actor is worth: making the same face believable in the criminal world, in farce and in historical drama.

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