Cüneyt Arkın

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Cüneyt Arkın
Born
Fahrettin Cüreklibatır

(1937-09-07) 7 September 1937 (age 86)
Gökçeoğlu village, Alpu, Eskişehir Province, Turkey
NationalityTurkish
EducationMedicine
Alma materIstanbul University
Occupation(s)Film actor, director and producer
Years active1963–2007
Known forMartial arts combat roles
Spouses
  • Güler (Mocan) Cüreklibatır
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    (m. 1965⁠–⁠1969)​
  • Betül (Işıl) Cüretlibatur
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    (m. 1970)​
Children
  • Filiz (from Güler)
  • Murat, Kaan Polat (from Betül)
Awards
Websitewww.cuneytarkin.com.tr
Signature

Fahrettin Cüreklibatır (born 7 September 1937), better known by his stage name Cüneyt Arkın, is a Turkish film actor, director, and producer. Having starred in somewhere around 250 movies and also TV series, he is widely considered as one of the most prominent Turkish actors of all time. His films shown abroad credited him as George Arkin. Arkın's films have ranged from well-received dramas to mockbusters throughout his career spanning four decades.

Early in his career, Arkın became known for starring in historical dramas taking place during the first centuries of the Ottoman Empire and Anatolian Seljuks, such as Malkoçoğlu Cem Sultan and Battal Gazi. While gaining success with such action-based films, he also took part in political films in the late 1970s, the most famous of those being The Adam Trilogy directed by Remzi Aydın Jöntürk. Arkın and Jöntürk continued their collaboration on many other films.

In the 1980s, Arkın became known abroad for the film Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam (The Man Who Saves The World, also known as Turkish Star Wars), an extremely low-budget science fiction tentatively famous for featuring bootlegged scenes from Star Wars. Today the B movie has a cult following.

Family

Fahrettin Cüreklibatur was born in the village of Gökçeoğlu in the Alpu district of Eskişehir Province, Turkey to a family of Crimean Tatar and Nogai origin.

After graduation from the university as a physician, Cüreklibatır married his classmate Güler Mocan in 1965. In 1966, their daughter Filiz was born. The marriage did not last long due to Cüreklibatır's newly flourishing career as a film actor.[1]

In 1968, he took the stage name Cüneyt Arkın, and met Betül Işıl, the daughter of a wealthy family that owned a tile manufacturing company. Işıl, a graduate of a university in Switzerland was working as a flight attendant at the time. They were engaged in 1969, married in 1970, and divorced in 1971. Soon afterwards, they remarried and Betül gave birth to two sons, Murat and Kaan Polat.[2][3] Arkın's wife and sons have starred in several of his films.[4]

Filmography

References

  1. ^ "En zoru hastanın altını temizlemekti". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 1999-12-11. Retrieved 2011-03-20.
  2. ^ Tekelioğlu, Tuluhan. "Cüneyt Arkın: Başka kadına el sürmedim". Haber7 (in Turkish). Retrieved 2011-03-20.
  3. ^ "Cüneyt Arkın'ın ailesi kaza geçirdi". Moral Haber (in Turkish). 2010-04-01. Retrieved 2011-03-20.
  4. ^ "Ailem-Cüneyt Arkın'ın kendi kaleminden ailesi" (in Turkish). Cüneyt Arkın Personal website. Retrieved 2011-03-20.

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Awards
Preceded by Golden Orange Award
for Best Actor
1969
for İnsanlar Yaşadıkça 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Golden Boll Award for Best Actor
1973
for Yaralı Kurt 		Succeeded by
not held
Preceded by Golden Orange Award
for Best Actor
1976
for Mağlup Edilemeyenler 		Succeeded by
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