Memduh Ün

Acting

Memduh Ün

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
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Birthday
Mar 14, 1920 (105 years old)
Death date
Oct 16, 2015

Memduh Ün

Known For

Remake, Remix, Rip-Off: About Copy Culture & Turkish Pop Cinema
1h 36m
DOLBY
Movie 2019

Remake, Remix, Rip-Off: About Copy Culture & Turkish Pop Cinema

Turkey in the 1960s and 1970s was one of the...

Sinema Bir Mucizedir
1h 43m
DOLBY
Movie 2005

Sinema Bir Mucizedir

A young boy and a director of a movie theater...

Whistle If You Come Back
1h 39m
DOLBY
Movie 1993

Whistle If You Come Back

A dwarf and a transvestite, both are excluded from the...

Walking After Midnight
1h 44m
DOLBY
Movie 1992

Walking After Midnight

Newly divorced Nilgün, a doctor from Istanbul, is sent to...

Gün Ortasında Karanlık
DOLBY
Movie 1990

Gün Ortasında Karanlık

Yeniden Doğmak
4 Episodes
DOLBY
TV Show 1987

Yeniden Doğmak

Vazife Uğruna
DOLBY
Movie 1986

Vazife Uğruna

Paranın Esiri
1h 26m
DOLBY
Movie 1985

Paranın Esiri

An ex-con musician returns to Istanbul to take a sweet...

Kahreden Gençlik
DOLBY
Movie 1985

Kahreden Gençlik

Biography

Turkish football player, film director, actor, editor, screenwriter, producer, lecturer and Honorary Professor. He graduated from Vefa Lisesi in 1937. In 1938, he dropped out of Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine in the third year of his education. Ün changed the language of cinema by going beyond the melodrama mould with the film Üc Arkadas in 1958. The film was considered one of the best films of Turkish cinema. Thanks to his success in this film, he was invited to the Film Friends Association and became one of the important directors of Turkish cinema. During this period, he started to live with Fatma Girik and the couple's relationship continued for life. In 1960, he started the era of child stars in Turkish cinema history with the film Aysecik. After his success with Aysecik, his partnership with Arsavir Alyanak at Yakut Film ended and he founded Ugur Film. In 1990, he made his first self-financed film, Tüm Kapilar Kapaliydi, in which he turned to a subject and cinematography not seen in his previous films. This was followed by the films Gün Ortasinda Karanlik and Zikkimin Kökü, which received many awards. The last film he directed was Sinema Bir Mucizedir (2005), but due to his illness he could not complete the film and handed it over to Tunc Basaran. He worked as a lecturer at Mimar Sinan University Cinema-TV Department. Film worker Memduh Ün died on 16 October 2015 at the age of 95 in Bodrum where he was being treated. IMDb mini bio by; yusufpiskin