Türker İnanoğlu (born May 18, 1936) is a
Turkish screenwriter
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...
,
film director
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and
producer.
Life
He married first the film actress
Filiz Akın
Filiz Akın (born Suna Akın, 2 January 1943) is a Turkish actress, writer and TV presenter. Known as Yeşilçam Turkish cinema's "noble, modern, urban and elegant face", Filiz Akın gained a huge fan base in Turkey.[Gülşen Bubikoğlu
Gülşen Bubikoğlu (born 5 December 1954) is a Turkish actress, one of the leading ladies of Turkish cinema in the 1970s and into the early 1980s. She studied at Fatih Kız Lisesi and was a fashion model for a time. Her first leading role was in ...]
, another former Turkish movie star. He has two children, a son, İlker, from his former marriage and a daughter, Zeynep, from his last marriage.
Career
İnanoğlu came in contact with the cinema when he was a student at the Istanbul Academy of Applied Fine Arts in 1957. After working as assistant to directors
Ömer Lütfi Akat and
Nişan Hançer in eleven movies, he directed in 1960 his first feature ''Senden Ayrı Yaşayamam''.
After directing nine movies in the studios of
Yeşilçam
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, the Turkish
Hollywood
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, İnanoğlu established in 1959 his own film company
Erler Film
Erler Film is a Turkish movie production company established in 1960 in Istanbul by the renowned Turkish film director and producer Türker İnanoğlu. Based today in Kavacık, Beykoz, it is the oldest film company in the country, which is still ...
, which is today the oldest film production company in Turkey still in business. Since then, he produced 126
black-and-white
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Media
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and color films, among them 21 co-productions with
Greece
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,
Italy
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and
Iran
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. He executed also the productions of
American
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,
Japan
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ese,
French and
German
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filmmakers’
documentary film
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s shot in Turkey. Until now, he directed 82 movies.
In 1979, İnanoğlu started the
video
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business in Turkey by founding the first video company, Ulusal Video. His company distributed video copies of domestic movies to around 1,500 video clubs in Turkey and abroad. He contributed so five years long to the survival of Turkish cinema, which found itself in a big economic crisis.
To produce news and entertainment programs for the television, he established a studio in 1985. In this studio, İnanoğlu produced very popular programs like ''Bir Başka Gece'' ("''Another night''"), ''Hodri Meydan'' ("''Challenge''"), ''Gecenin getirdikleri'' ("''Things came by night''") for the then only TV channel in Turkey,
TRT. Later, following the opening of private TV channels, he continued to produce TV programs for
channels
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like
Star TV Star TV may refer to:
* E! (Canadian TV channel) (formerly Star!), a Canadian entertainment news channel
* Las Estrellas (Spanish for The Stars), the Mexican television network
* Estrella TV (Spanish for Star TV), the American Spanish-language net ...
,
Show TV
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,
Kanal 6
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* Kanal (unit), a unit of area equivalent to one-eighth of an acre, used in northern India and Pakistan
* '' Kanał'', a 1956 Polish film directed by Andrzej Wajda
* ''Kanal'' (1979 film), a 1979 Turkish film
* ''Kanal'' (201 ...
and
ATV, totaling to 10,000 hours.
In 1994, İnanoğlu became president of the channel ATV and helped it became a leader in the sector. Recently, he established a
cable TV
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channel,
Süper Kanal
He co-founded sectoral associations and served as their chairman. Recently, he is the honorary president of the Turkish Association of Owners of Cinema Arts, SESAM. In 1997, he set up the Türker İnanoğlu Cinema Foundation and transferred all the
copyright
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s on his productions to this charity institution with social and educational goals for the Turkish cinema.
Selected filmography
Screenwriter
* ''İçimizden Biri'' (''Someone from Us''), 1960
* ''Şafakta Buluşalım'' (''Let’s meet at dawn''), 1961
Director
* ''Sonbahar'' (''The Autumn''), 1959
* ''Senden Ayrı Yaşayamam'' (''I Can’t Live Apart From You''), 1960
* ''Küçük Kahraman'' (''The Little Brave''), 1960
* ''İçimizden Biri'' (''Someone from Us''), 1960
* ''Küçük Beyefendi'' (''Little Gentleman''), 1962
* ''Kiralık Koca'' (''Husband for rent''), 1963
* ''Bulunmaz Uşak'' (''The Perfect Servant''), 1963
* ''Bahriyeli Ahmet'' (''Ahmet, the Mariner''), 1963
* ''Yankesici Kız'' (''The Pitpocket Girl''), 1964
* ''Mirasyedi'' (''The Heir'')
* ''Satılık Kalp'' (''Heart for sale''), 1965
* ''Acı Tesadüf'' (''Bitter Coincidence''), 1966
* ''İdam Mahkumu'' (''The Prisoner for Death Penalty''), 1966
* ''Kaderin Cilvesi'' (''Twist of Fate''), 1967
* ''Namus Borcu'' (''Honor Due''), 1967
* ''Evlat Uğruna'' (''For the Sake of Children''), 1967
* ''İstanbul Tatili'' (''Holiday in Istanbul''), 1968
* ''Sabah Yıldızı'' (''The Morning Star''), 1968
* ''Soyguncular'' (''The Robbers''), 1973
* ''Bizim Kız'' (''Our Girl''), 1977
Producer
* ''İçimizden Biri'' (''Someone from Us''), 1960
* ''Çöpçatan'' (''The Matchmaker''), 1961
* ''Küçük Beyefendi'' (''Little Gentleman''), 1962
* ''Yolcu'' (''The Passenger''), 1963
* ''Bulunmaz Uşak'' (''The Perfect Servant''), 1963
* ''Bahriyeli Ahmet'' (''Ahmet, the Mariner''), 1963
* ''Yankesici Kız'' (''The Pitpocket Girl''), 1964
* ''Satılık Kalp'' (''Heart for sale''), 1965
* ''İdam Mahkumu'' (''The Prisoner for Death Penalty''), 1966
* ''Acı Tesadüf'' (''Bitter Coincidence''), 1966
* ''İntikam Uğruna'' (''For the Sake of Revenge''), 1966
* ''Namus Borcu'' (''Honor Due''), 1967
* ''Evlat Uğruna'' (''For the Sake of Children''), 1967
* ''İstanbul Tatili'' (''Holiday in Istanbul''), 1968
* ''Almanyalı Yarim'' (''My Darling From Germany''), 1974
* ''Bizim Kız'' (''Our Girl''), 1977
* ''Süpermenler'' (''3 Supermen Against Godfather'' in Europe, ''Tres supermanes contra el padrino'' in Spain), 1979
* ''Beyaz Ölüm'' (''White Death''), 1983
* ''Tele Kızlar'' (''Call Girls''), 1985
* ''Selamsız Bandosu'' (''Selamsız’s Band''), 1987 (co-production)
* ''Kaçamak'' (''The Love Affair''), 1988
TV series producer
* T''atlı Kaçıklar'' (''Sweet Nutcases''), 1996
* ''İkinci Bahar'' (''Second Spring''), 1999
* ''Bizim Otel'' (''Our Hotel''), 2001
* ''Hastayım Doktor'' (''I am Sick, Doctor''), 2002
* ''
Yabancı Damat
''Yabancı Damat'' (literally: ''The Foreign Groom'') is a Turkish television drama distributed by Erler Film with 106 episodes in total. It deals with the relationship between a young Greek man Niko and a Turkish girl Nazlı, and the problems (a ...
'' (''The Foreign Groom''), 2004
* ''Anne Babamla Evlensene'' (''Mommy, Marry My Daddy''), 2005
References
*
Biography in Turkish
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1936 births
Living people
Turkish male screenwriters
Turkish film directors
Turkish film producers
Golden Orange Life Achievement Award winners
Golden Butterfly Award winners
People from Safranbolu