Cüneyt Arkin
| Cüneyt Arkın | |
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| Born |
Fahrettin Cüreklibatır September 7, 1937 Gökçeoğlu village, Alpu, Eskişehir Province, Turkey |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Education | Medicine |
| Alma mater | Istanbul University |
| Occupation | Film actor, director and producer |
| Years active | 1963–2007 |
| Known for | Martial arts combat roles |
| Spouse(s) | Güler (Mocan) Cüreklibatır (m. 1965–1969) Betül (Işıl) Cüretlibatur (m. 1970–present) |
| Children | Filiz (from Güler) Murat, Kaan Polat (from Betül) |
| Awards |
Golden Orange Award for Best Actor (1969, 1976) Golden Boll Award for Best Actor (1973) |
| Website | www |
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Fahrettin Cüreklibatır (born September 7, 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.
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.
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