Fikret Hakan

Acting

Fikret Hakan

Born 1934-04-23 · Balikesir, Turkey

Fikret Hakan (born Bumin Gaffar Çitanak; 23 April 1934 – 11 July 2017) was a prolific Turkish film actor and a recipient of the honorary State Artist, a title awarded by the Turkish government. Hakan was born as Bumin Gaffar Çitanak in 1934 to Gaffar and Fatma Belkıs. His mother was a head nurse while his father was a literature teacher. He moved along with his parents as a teenager from Balikesir to Istanbul, and enrolled in Galatasaray High School.[3] Hakan began his artistic career in 1950 as an actor for the Ses Theatre and a contributor to literary magazines. Making his debut in Evli mi bekar mi, a short comedy directed by Muhsin Ertugrul in 1951, and his feature film debut in 1953 in Köprüalti Çocuklari (Kids Under the Bridge), he has made over 170 appearances in film to date, although his career was at its most productive throughout the 1950s and 1960s through to 1976. He starred in films such as Revenge of the Snakes (Yılanların öcü) in 1962. Hakan appeared as Colonel Ahmed Elçi along with Tony Curtis and Charles Bronson in the 1970-mpvie You Can't Win 'Em All directed by Peter Collinson.[4] Hakan made four marriages. His spouses were Lale Sarı, Semiramis Pekkan, Neşecan Paşmak and Hümeyra. He had an extramarital daughter Elif Hakan.[5] Lately, he had a life partner Tijen Kılıç.[6] He died on 11 July 2017 at a hospital in Istanbul after being diagnosed with lung cancer.[7] He was interred at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery following a memorial ceremony held at Istanbul University's Faculty of Science,[6] and the religious funeral in Afet Yolal Mosque in Levent.

Acting credits

Borrowed Bride poster
6.3

Ali is 18. His feet are firmly off the ground. The very idea of marriage seems like a game. But the bride's parents are ready and willing. Business ventures will be set up between the families; the arrangement will pay off all round. Ali, meanwhile, is more interested in playing with puppets and dressing up as a rooster for the travelling theatre. His fiancée has only so much patience... So what should his parents do? What was that? Hire a Borrowed Bride? Meaning exactly what? Well just that: borrow a bride, as the title of the film suggests......

Borrowed Bride

2005

Badem Şekeri poster
10.0

Young people who come together for revenge begin to be affected by each other. Young people resort to all sorts of ways to overcome their father's hostility.

Badem Şekeri

1963

Düşkünüm Sana poster
NR

Nükhet and Orhan are two young people who love each other. Orhan's father pressures Orhan to break up with Nükhet, and they separate. Nükhet becomes a famous singer. Orhan marries another woman and has a child. They meet Nükhet on a business trip, and their old love reignites. Nükhet, who wants to become a famous dancer, meets Selim.

Düşkünüm Sana

1983

You Can't Win 'Em All poster
5.8

During the 1922 Turkish Civil War, two Americans and a group of foreign mercenaries offer their services to a local Turkish governor who hires them as guards for a secret transport.

You Can't Win 'Em All

1970

Şehzade Sinbad poster
8.0

Turkish adaptation of the tale of Sinbad the Sailor as "Prince Sinbad of the Mountains".

Şehzade Sinbad

1971

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ölüm Deresi

1956

The Agony of Black Battal poster
8.0

In Byzantine Empire, a man (hired to repair the caslte) is wrongly accused of killing a young girl and sentenced to death.

The Agony of Black Battal

1968

Revenge of the Snakes poster
7.6

The film follows the life of a poor, old woman defying the hierarchy in the village. Irazca is an old woman who lives with her son Kara Bayram, her daughter-in-law Hatice, and three grandchildren. The headman of the village sells a lot from the common land of the village to Haceli. The family does not want a house to be built in front of their house and struggles against the tricks of the headman and Haceli.

Revenge of the Snakes

1962

The Stepmother poster
8.0

Story of an old man who is in love with a young girl.

The Stepmother

1971

Kısmet poster
8.0

A series of events unfolding around a wealthy man who pretends to be someone else in order to win the heart of a female singer.

Kısmet

1974

Fidan poster
NR

Ramazan, together with his children, migrate to the big city, Istanbul in order to give them a better life. His daughter Fidan begins working as a clerk at a shop. But she could not adapt to the life of big city. She runs away with the son of the shop owner. Ramazan searches for his daughter, but the big city already has corrupted his daughter

Fidan

1984

Fedailer Mangası poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fedailer Mangası

1972

İsimsiz Kahramanlar poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

İsimsiz Kahramanlar

1964

Bozkurtlar Geliyor poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bozkurtlar Geliyor

1967

Kim Bilir poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kim Bilir

1981

Hora poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hora

1976

Sarı Zeybek poster
6.0

Sarı Zeybek is a 1953 biopic film written and directed by Münir Hayri Egeli. The film specifically showed the last 300 days of Mustafa Kemal's life and portrayed his ordinary human characteristics rather than his military prowess or political talents.

Sarı Zeybek

1953

Sweating Soil poster
9.0

Hasan, an engineer who returned to the village from America after years with his child, young and beautiful wife, wants to establish a dairy factory to save the peasant who exploited Salih Aga from poverty. The villagers get money for this job.

Sweating Soil

1981

Toprağın Kanı poster
9.0

The film addresses the conflicts and problems between machines and humans in an oil region.

Toprağın Kanı

1966

Little Prince poster
3.0

This 1986 film is a Turkish adaptation of the fairy tale Le Petit Prince, written by French author and pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and published in 1943. Directed by Remzi Jöntürk, the film features the original story as well as fairy tale Turkish heroes such as Nasrettin Hoca for localization purposes.

Little Prince

1986

We Hit The Road poster
9.0

Laborers of the film industry have decided to march against the new censorship act in 1977. 60 years of silence in cinema was going to be interrupted for good. From actor/actresses to set workers, 400 women and men have started a 5-day-long walk to Ankara. A walk that was conceived with supportive but surprised looks of the public. The documentary tries to picture this forgotten but historical event in the light of the 100th year of cinema.

We Hit The Road

2014

Öldüren Şehir poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Öldüren Şehir

1971

Devlerin İntikamı poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Devlerin İntikamı

1967

Lejyon Dönüşü poster
7.0

The story of a doctor who loses his memory in Africa, returns to Istanbul, and falls in love again with his ex-girlfriend, whom he married.

Lejyon Dönüşü

1957

Behind the camera