Kemal Sunal
Date of Birth: 11 Nov 1944
Country: Turkey
Biography: Kemal Sunal (1944-2000) aktör ve komedyen. Özellikle 70'lerde çekilip günümüzde de büyük ilgi gören komedi filmlerinde oynayan Sunal, Türk sinemas?n?n yeti?tirdi?i en önemli oyunculardan biri olarak kabul edilmektedir.
Kemal Sunal, Mustafa ve Saime çiftinin o?lu olarak ?stanbul'da do?du. Vefa Lisesi'nden mezun oldu. Sanat hayat?, 'Zoraki Tabip' adl? tiyatro oyunuyla ba?lad?. 1 y?l kadar Kenterler Tiyatrosu'nda çal??t?ktan sonra Deveku?u Kabare Tiyatrosu'nda görev a
Total Credits at Criticker: 86 (Actor), 3 (Writer)
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Based on a true story set in 1948, customs officer Mehti is faced with the duty of formally setting up the border between Turkey and Syria, dividing his hometown. He is unaware of the pain that will eminently unfold, as families, languages, cultures and lovers are both ripped apart and clash head on in a village once united. (imdb)
About a class of highschool students in a private school. Their school tuition are paid by their ignorant parents who think that's all for them to get prepared for life. The students bond each other as a family. They are lazy, ignorant, funny and the worst nightmare of their teachers... (IMDB Comments)
Hababam Sinifi is basically a movie based on the novel by Rifat Ilgaz, telling the story about a class of lazy high school pranksters. The movie just presents the most entertaining moments of high school years; which we have all been there once, and feel deep down a nostalgia for the days when life was fun and we were teenagers (IMDB Comments)
Late 19th century in Alexandria. Two traditionally rival Turkish families, "Seferoglu"s and "Tellioglu"s are competing for the "Green Valley". The winner will be determined by Daver Bey, who has a beautiful young daughter, Leyla. Both families try to arrange a marriage between a man from their family and Leyla, so that Daver Bey will be inclined to give the green valley to his "relatives"... (imdb)
This is the story of the politician named Zubuk. He gets expelled from the political party that he is a member of, due to corruption. The journalist Yasar wants to make a news story about his case and investigates Zubuk's doings. Yasar gets baffled at the sly tricks Zubuk played on his village people. In the end, he feels sorry about his Zubuk's present situation, however, as things happen he becomes aware that Zubuk has been tricking him. (imdb)
Kibar Feyzo is a good and naive guy from a village in Turkey. He wants to marry a girl, but her father is against this marriage as long as Feyzo does not pay for his daughter, an old traditional deal in the past of Turkey... (IMDB Comments)
Kemal Sunal plays a foolish garbage man, who falls in love with a municipality officer's fiancee (wikipedia.org)
A young man returning from 2 years of hard work in Germany to his village in Turkey. He went there to earn money so he can marry the girl he loves. (imdb comments)
Salak milyoner (Stupid Millionaire) is about four brothers from the countryside inheriting a treasure map from their fathers, going to Istanbul to search for the treasure. (imdb comments)
Four brothers discover a treasure in their village, and decide to cash it in the big city. (imdb comments)
The story is about school life; there were many people who didn't graduate after two or three attempts. Also there are no girls in this class, only boys. One day, they go on holiday by convincing their teacher they are boy scouts. The film is about their adventures, there are many jokes.
This story is about a naive and good hearted waiter who works in a big turkish casino. He is in love with the favorite singer of the casino who is a good looking woman. (imdb comments)
This is a film about a naive poor garbage man (k. sunal-as apti), falling in love with his chef's (sener sen) fiancée.
The ever-popular Kemal Sunal stars in this comedy, where he must take on the guise of a woman named Sabaniye.
About a country man who wants to marry his long time love but her stubborn greedy father will not give her up unless he pays a very high dowry. So he heads to the city to make money honestly but after that does not work he tries a hand on scheming and stealing but mucks it all over the place. (IMDB Comments)
Some people go to a restaurant to hear the singer Emel Sayin. They get beaten up and thrown out after a long chain of misunderstandings and decide to get revenge... by kidnapping Emel Sayin! (IMDB Comments)
In love with a waitress whom he sees often on his street-cleaning route, a shy city worker at first tries to get a friend of his to plead his case with the girl. Instead, his friend decides to try and take the girl for himself. While performing in a community play as a policeman, our street cleaner decides to keep his uniform on a little longer, and begins to regularly impersonate a policeman... (All Movie Guide)
A comedy starring Kemal Sunal as a factory worker who has to deal with kidnapping gangsters.
This film portrays the life of "the missing ones", helpless against poverty & ignorance. Making one depressed effort against death, and trying to handle it with happiness. (IMDB Comments)
Kemal Sunal plays the title role of Salakoglan("the fool" in English). He is the village idiot in which the boss (or Aga) of the village has a very beautiful daughter, Emine... whom Salako falls desperately in love with... (IMDB Comments)
Mülayim "the Bomber" (Kemal Sunal) finds out being cancer ill and so he would die in a few months. He loans a killer for killing himself, but Mülayim isn't ill actually. He wins a lottery when escapes from the killer and Turkish mafia. (IMDB Comments)
Dütdüt (Kemal Sunal) lives in shantytown and he plays clarinet at night clubs. He works night and day for making money. This film is a political burlesque for Turkey's 80s.
Not about Tarzan, but an average Rurkish guy who thinks he is Tarzan. His name is Rifki and people in his neigborhood call him Tarzan Rifki. He is kinda stupid and naive. He wants to find a true love and live with her in a forest. One day he sends an advertisement to a newspaper. Its a newspaper where single people send message to find new friends. He finds one and one day he wants to meet her. He mails her and tells the woman where they are going to meet each other... (imdb)
This is one of the tragicomic films of Kemal Sunal who is most "serious-comic" artist of the Turkish cinema. This film also reflects socio-economic and cultural life of the 70's-80's Turkiye. The film obviously talk to Turkish audience but who wonder that era of Turkiye can taste of it. The film underlines of love, friendship and -richness in the poorness- and also is a story about the people who prefers love, instead of money and fortune. (imdb)
There is a sad theme in the movie especially for the role of Kemal Sunal as Zuhtu,a curious "köfte"(meatball)-maker. One day when he helps a young girl (Gölgen Bengü) escape from her relatives it ends that he by the custom of that time forced to marry her. (imdb)
The movie is one of the classics of Kemal Sunal.The music of the movie is also very famous "siki siki baba". A movie that must be seen by the Saban fans. (imdb)
A good man trys to help a blind girl to see again but he doesn't have enough money for the operation. (imdb)
A different Kemal Sunal film, tells the story about Kuheylan and his two wives.
This is the story of a poor guy who comes from a small village in eastern turkey to big city Istanbul. He has no idea of a life in Istanbul and how hard life is. (imdb)
A poor family's girl "Alev" was platonically in love with rich and handsome boy "Ferdi". With a dramatic misunderstanding she and her family thinks he is in love with her too.The film has style teasing it-self and gives an examples from poor but conceited and happy slum Turkish culture. (IMDB Comments)
Şaban is a poor man living with his family in the suburbs. A beautiful young woman from a commercial company comes to him with an offer to play in their commercials, Şaban accepts first but in time realizes that he is making a mistake.
The story line follows a wealthy family with three not so great sons whose father believes each to be exceptional.
Adem is a poor errand boy in a company. His uncle dies in the states and lefts him a donkey, which becomes priceless in the corrupt society.
Yoksul [poor] is a poor guy, like his name. He works as a tea seller and loves a girl who deceive him
Ferit belongs to a rich family from Istanbul. Despite studying medicine; his main hobby is to play basketball. He attends to a basketball camp on a village where Emine works as the teacher of the village...
Kumcular and Kumcuogullari are two families from the Black Sea region of Turkey and they have a blood feud between them for long years. Güllü (Türkan Soray) comes to Istanbul with his gun to kill Ali (Ediz Hun) from the other family.
A comedy about a fruit seller's apprentice and a famous goalkeeper who look exactly like each other.
Saban (Kemal Sunal) who is a big fan of western movies comes to the big city from a small town to run a cafe. He is going the be the only hope of his neighborhood.
Saban (Kemal Sunal) is a minibus driver who have difficulties communicating with women.
Story is about a famous mafia leader and a stunt who look exactly like each other.
Rifki returns home from Germany to sell the properties inheritted to him from his father. In his own village from a coincedence people started to believe that he was a saint.
Kemal (Kemal Sunal) who was a janitor in one of Istanbul's most famous hospitals, return to his hometown and people sees him as a doctor.
Bayram (Kemal Sunal) is a joyfull man full of life with too little property; only a drum... His happy life is going to change because of his uncle's dead and enormous wealth he left to Bayram.
Sevtap (Fatma Girik) is in love with Adem (Kemal Sunal) the postman of her neighbourhood.
Saban (Kemal Sunal) is a married man with two kids. One day he get sacked from the factory and he begins his new life as a houseman.
A crazy man is mistaken as the new district governor of a small city, isolated from the world because of the weather and snow.
A story that tell about a rich man who is trying to show himself as a thief, in order to get his lover.
Osman earns his living as a porter. He lives in a small house with his wife, children and mother-in-law. He is in debt from top to toes. His wife and mother-in-law belittle him a lot. Osman buys a lottery ticket from Sakir and hides it somewhere.
Selim is a bachelor living with his family. Since he is getting older, he decides to meet and marry to a woman. One day he meets Aliye while using his walkie talkie!
A man goes to Germany to work there and falls for a Turkish girl who like him came to work in Germany too.
Comedy about two best friends trying to save a children park from a businessman who wants to demolish it to construct buildings for profit.
Ali lives with his grandma. He goes for small thefts with his friend Osman. Ali falls in love with Zehra, the girl next door.
Cemal loves reading detective stories. He also loves Zeynep, the daughter of the head of a dangerous criminal gang
Adventures of a puzzled journalist who makes up faux stories and endangers the prestige of his newspaper
Saygilar Bizden (1992) - TV Series
Saygilar Bizden is a Turkish political comedy that was displayed at Star Tv.
Şaban ile Şirin (1997) - TV Mini-Series
The story of the friendship between Şaban and Şirin. Kemal Sunal's last TV series.