Ezel Akay
Ezel Akay (born 20 January 1961) is a Turkish film actor, film director and film producer.
Life and work
After Ezel Akay graduated as a mechanical engineer from the Boğaziçi University, he was trained as actor at the US-American Villanova University.
Before Ezel Akay started to work in the Turkish film business and co-founded the Turkish production company IFR,[1] he worked as copywriter, theatre director and –actor. Since the foundation of his film production company IFR, Ezel Akay directed more than 500 commercials.[2]
In 1996 Ezel Akay produced together with the Turkish film director Dervis Zaim for Zaim's debut feature Somersault in a Coffin, which won several national and international prizes. Where's Firuze? was the first feature, which Ezel Akay directed.
Filmography
- 1996: Somersault in a Coffin (Tabutta Rövaşata) (producer)
- 1999: Journey to the Sun (Güneşe Yolculuk) (executive producer)
- 2001: Elephants and Grass (Filler ve Çimen) (actor)
- 2001: The Waterfall (producer, actor)
- 2004: Where's Firuze? (Neredesin Firuze), (director, producer, actor)
- 2005: Making Boats out of Watermellon Rinds (Karpuz Kabuğundan Gemiler Yapmak) (producer)
- 2005: Robbery Alla Turca (Hırsız Var!), (actor)
- 2006: Killing the Shadows (Hacivat Karagöz Neden Öldürüldü?), (director, producer, writer, and actor)
- 2006: The Road Home (Eve Giden Yol) (actor)
- 2007: Adam and the Devil (Adem'in Trenleri) (producer, actor)
- 2007: Sözün Bittiği Yer (actor)
- 2007: Hicran Sokağı (actor)
- 2009: 7 Husbands for Hürmüz (7 Kocalı Hürmüz), (director, actor)
- 2011: Gümüş Lale Burası Osmanlı 1711 (director, scriptwriter)
- 2013: F Type Film - 9 jail stories, (director, actor - episode 2)
- 2014: Küçük Kara Balıklar (director)
- 2017: Martıların Efendisi (actor)
- 2020: Leyla Everlasting (9 Kere Leyla), (director, producer, scriptwriter)
- 2020: Yarım Kalan Aşklar (actor)
References
External links
Media related to Ezel Akay at Wikimedia Commons
- Ezel Akay at IMDb
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- Metin Erksan (1969)
- Bilge Olgaç (1970)
- Yılmaz Güney (1971)
- Ertem Eğilmez (1972)
- Yılmaz Duru (1973)
- Yusuf Kurçenli – Tunç Başaran (1992)
- Memduh Ün (1993)
- Erden Kıral (1994)
- Kadir Sözen (1995)
- Tunç Başaran (1996)
- Zeki Demirkubuz (1997)
- Uğur Yücel (2005)
- Ezel Akay (2006)
- Nihat Durak (2007)
- İnan Temelkuran (2008)
- Mahmut Fazıl Coşkun (2009)
- Selim Demirdelen – Levent Semerci (2010)
- Cemil Ağacıkoğlu (2011)
- Pelin Esmer (2012)
- Reha Erdem (2013)