Tuncel Tayanç Kurtiz (1 February 1936 – 27 September 2013) was a Turkish theatre, movie and TV series actor, playwright, and film director Since 1964, he acted in more than 70 movies, including many international productions. Since 1958, Kurtiz performed on many stages in Istanbul, in state and private theatres. He was also on the stage at Gothenburg City Theatre, Stockholm Royal Theatre and Swedish Theatre in Sweden, Schaubühne Berlin, Frankfurt City Theatre and Hamburg City Theatre in Germany and at Peter Brook Shakespeare Royal Theatre in England. Kurtiz directed plays for the German-Turkish theatre project "Türkisches Ensemble" in the late 1970s. During his university years and later the military service period, he became friends with the renowned film director Yılmaz Güney. They made a number of films together. Their 1970 film Umut was prohibited to leave Turkey, but was shown in Cannes Film Festival by a smuggled copy. His first film role was in Şeytanın Uşakları, shot in 1964. Since then, Tuncel Kurtiz played also in many international productions like Swedish, German, Dutch, Italian, French, British, Israel and Indian films and TV series, mostly in the original language.

Filmography

• 2013Happy Family Journal — Yıldırım Taşyumruk
• The Magnificent Century — Ebu Suud Efendi
• 2010Black and White
• 2010The Lost Gift
• Ezel — Ramiz Karaeski
• 2009Pains of Autumn — Kamil Efendi
• 2008Jack Hunter and the Quest for Akhenaten's Tomb — Said
• Asi — Cemal Ağa
• 2007The Edge of Heaven — Ali Aksu
• Hacı
• 2004Tales of Intransigence
• Alacakaranlık
• 2002On the Tiger's Back — Fatih
• 2001O da Beni Seviyor — Masalcı
• 2001The Waterfall — Kel Selim
• 1998Hoşçakal Yarın — Ali Elverdi
• 1998Vive la mariée... et la libération du Kurdistan — Uncle Ismet
• 1998Çok Tuhaf Soruşturma
• 1997Journey on a Clock Hand — Agah
• 1997Sawdust Tales — Fisherman
• 1997Çökertme
• 1996Gräfin Sophia Hatun
• 1996Istanbul Beneath My Wings — Topal Recep Paşa
• 1996Işıklar Sönmesin
• 1996Somersault in a Coffin — Reis
• 1995Love is Colder Than Death — Dursun
• 1994Ağrı'ya Dönüş
• 1994Baba
• 1994Bir Aşk Uğruna
• Gölgedekiler
• 1993Dark Shadows of Fear — Mohammed
• Dødelig kjemi — Ahmed Jhani
• Kvällspressen — Abdel
• Amforans gåta — Papa
• 1990Die Hallo-Sisters — Samy
• 1990The Guardian Angel — Ivar
• 1990The Mahabharata — Shakuni
• The Mahabharata — Shakuni
• 1990Time of Vengeance — grand-father
• 1989Code Name Coq Rouge — Al-Houl
• 1986The Frozen Leopard
• 1986The Smile of the Lamb — Hilmi
• 1985On a Narrow Bridge
• 1983Kalabaliken i Bender
• 1983The Wall — Tonton Ali
• 1980Hasan the Rose — Hakan / The film director, Director, Writer
• 1980On Fertile Lands — Zeynel, Writer
• 1979Kanal — Abuzer Dayı
• 1978Guestworker's Road — Director
• 1978The Herd — Hamo Ağa
• 1974The Bus
• 1973Frau Kutzer und andere Bewohner der Naunynstraße
• 1970Hope — Hasan
• Scene of the Crime — Der Kleine
• 1967Bullets Won't Touch Me — Cengiz
• 1967Krallar Ölmez — Komiser
• 1967Kuduz Recep — Hamza
• 1966Horse, Woman and Gun
• 1966Kanli Mezar
• 1966Law of the Border — Bekir
• 1966Silahların Kanunu
• 1966The Ugly King
• 1966Yiğit Yaralı Olur
• 1966Zehirli Kucak
• 1965Bir Caniye Gönül Verdim
• 1965I Live When I Die
• 1965Kanlı Meydan
• 1965Konyakçı
• 1965Krallar Kralı
• 1965Sokaklar Yanıyor — Orhan
• 1965Sokakta Kan Vardı
• 1965The Last Birds — Turgut
• 1965The Road That Has No End — Köylü
• 1965Üçünüzü de mıhlarım — Hüseyin

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2025All Over the Place - A Portrait of Tuncel Kurtiz — Self
• 2017The Legend of the Ugly King — Self (archive footage)
• 2012My boy, look at the stars — Self (voice)
• 2001In Foreign Soil — Self
• Türkiye'nin 68'i — Self