İzzet Günay

Acting

İzzet Günay

Born

1934-08-21 (92)

Place of birth

Üsküdar, İstanbul

Known for

Acting

Credits

69 titles

İzzet Günay (born 21 August 1934) is Turkish film and stage actor. He is one of the most experienced and well-known Turkish actors with appearances in more than 100 films across six decades. Günay studied at Haydarpaşa High School and Deniz High School. He worked at the İstanbul Municipal Public Works department and then in the lignite business. Günay answered a casting call in a newspaper and ended up being cast in Haldun Dormen's play Kara Ağaçlar Altında. He then appeared in several other plays such as Sokak Kızı İrma, and Pasifik Şarkısı Zafer Madalyası. In 1959, Günay made his film debut in the Kemal Film production Kırık Plak as Zeki Müren's driver. After a number of small roles, he l…

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 1 titles

1970s · 14 titles

Felek poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Felek

1973

Kader Yolcuları poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kader Yolcuları

1973

Duyun Beni poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Duyun Beni

1975

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

Hayat Mı Bu? poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Hayat Mı Bu?

1973

Ali Cengiz Oyunu poster
6.0

The story of two young men who resemble each other like two peas in a pod, who switch places as a result of a mix-up.

Ali Cengiz Oyunu

1972

Suya Düşen Hayal poster
7.0

The story of a journalist trying to solve a murder case.

Suya Düşen Hayal

1972

Kezban in Paris poster
5.5

A young girl's adventures in Paris, where she visits after befriending a rich boy.

Kezban in Paris

1971

Crossroads poster
8.0

The paths of Feyza and Bilal, who are from different worlds, cross again after years.

Crossroads

1970

Bebek Gibi Maşallah poster
8.0

Leyla wants to marry her boyfriend Nihat. However, her uncle Feyzullah opposes this. Some time later, Feyzullah dies and leaves his inheritance to Leyla. However, in order to receive the inheritance, she must marry someone other than Nihat. Nihat devises a plan. He arranges for Leyla to marry Kemal, a prisoner who is scheduled to be executed soon. However, things will not go as Nihat had planned.

Bebek Gibi Maşallah

1971

Kefenin Cebi Yok poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kefenin Cebi Yok

1972

Mothers and Daughters poster
6.0

A tricotage worker Nese who becomes very popular singer and Anatolian woman, Fatma. The story of them and their daughters.

Mothers and Daughters

1971

Duyduk Duymadık Demeyin poster
9.0

Osman is an accountant with a quiet life and a happy marriage. The partners of the company he works for fall out and decide to split up. During this process, they entrust the company's money to Osman, whom they trust implicitly. After hiding the cash box somewhere, Osman is involved in a traffic accident. Karadana, the thug who takes Osman to the hospital, gives him blood. Due to the accident, Osman suffers from memory loss and is completely transformed because of Karadana's blood.

Duyduk Duymadık Demeyin

1970

Güngörmüşler poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Güngörmüşler

1976

1960s · 40 titles

Kavga Var poster
7.0

Remzi is a kind-hearted but quarrelsome man who cannot tolerate injustice. Ayten is Recep's only daughter. Recep is a quarrelsome, tough man like Remzi. One day, Recep and Remzi come face to face and get into a fight. Through this incident, Remzi meets Ayten and falls in love with her. Ayten decides to enter a beauty pageant out of defiance toward her friend. Remzi soon discovers that the organizers of the pageant are fraudsters. However, convincing Ayten to change her mind will not be easy.

Kavga Var

1964

Garibanlar Mahallesi poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Garibanlar Mahallesi

1969

My Prostitute Love poster
7.7

Halil the greengrocer goes to a nightclub with his friends one day to break the monotony of his life. There he meets Sabiha, one of the women working at the club. They fall in love at first sight and begin living together. While Sabiha is making plans for the future with Halil, she learns a truth about him that she didn't know, and the forbidden love that began at the nightclub turns into a dead end filled with lies.

My Prostitute Love

1968

Hayat Acıları poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hayat Acıları

1967

Umit Street poster
10.0

The film tells the story of two friends living in the same neighborhood who struggle to become rich. Selim and Ali are friends. Ali wants to earn money and marry Lale, while Selim wants to escape from their neighborhood and poverty. Necdet, a mafia boss, once lived on Ümit Street, where Selim and Ali reside. Selim and Ali go to Necdet to ask for work. Necdet gives each of them a thousand lira and tells them to come back in five months with ten thousand lira. The two friends will get to know each other better during their individual struggles for survival.

Umit Street

1966

The Bread Seller Woman poster
6.0

Based on Xavier de Montépin's story, the film tells the story of a widow wrongly accused of arson.

The Bread Seller Woman

1965

Kimse Fatma Gibi Öpemez poster
6.5

On the day Fatma returns from Europe, she learns that she has inherited something from her mother. Her mother had been defrauding her uncle for years, using the excuse that she had a disabled daughter. Her uncle had left his inheritance to his disabled niece. In order to claim the inheritance, Fatma must pretend to be disabled. For this purpose, lawyer Kemal will monitor Fatma for a while. However, this situation will lead to the beginning of a romance between Fatma and Kemal.

Kimse Fatma Gibi Öpemez

1964

Beyoğlu Esrarı poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Beyoğlu Esrarı

1966

Yumrukların Kanunu poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Yumrukların Kanunu

1966

Barut Fıçısı poster
7.5

Osman is the son of factory owner Rüknettin Bey. Rüknettin Bey started his business career as a traveling salesman and quickly rose to become one of the wealthiest men in the country. His wife Bedia aims to take control of the entire fortune by marrying their son Osman to a girl from her own family. Fed up with his son Osman's womanizing ways, Rüknettin Bey tells him to choose the girl he wants to marry within a month. While the girls from Bedia's family circle around Osman, Rüknettin Bey's niece, nicknamed "Barut Fıçısı" (Gunpowder Barrel), also has her eye on Osman.

Barut Fıçısı

1963

The Evening Sun poster
9.0

Nazmi, who was an officer in the military, was injured in the Korean War and retired. He wants to spend the rest of his life on a farm away from city life and settles with his wife on the farm. But the arrival of Jülide to the farm changes all the balances.

The Evening Sun

1966

Cici Kızlar poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Cici Kızlar

1965

Ayrılık Saati poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ayrılık Saati

1967

Öpüşmek Yasak poster
7.0

Burhan and Kemal are minibus drivers in Şile. These drivers, who never get along, decide to buy new minibuses. Burhan orders from his sons Kaya and Naci, who are studying in Istanbul. Kemal also orders from his daughters Oya and Sema in Istanbul. With their new minibuses, a fierce competition will begin between the two drivers.

Öpüşmek Yasak

1964

Sefiller poster
6.0

Zafer Davutoglu's 1967 adaptation of Hugo's novel Les Misérables set in Turkey.

Sefiller

1967

Menderes Köprüsü poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Menderes Köprüsü

1968

Kardeş Kavgası poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kardeş Kavgası

1967

The Crying Woman poster
8.0

Osman, who opposes his father for the woman he loves, starts preparations for marriage with Sükran. Meanwhile, Sükran learns a great secret about her mother, and is abandoned by Osman when the secret is revealed.

The Crying Woman

1967

Fakir Kızı Leyla poster
9.0

Fikret, an heir, is forced to marry Leyla, the daughter of his mother's former housekeeper, in order to avoid being disinherited.

Fakir Kızı Leyla

1969

Death Toll poster
8.0

An honest cop is trying to rescue a girl who is stuck in decadence and prostitution.

Death Toll

1964

Kezban poster
6.7

Kezban is a beautiful young girl who lives with her mother in a village. After her mother dies, her father learns that she is his daughter and comes to the village to take her with him, but Kezban does not know that this man is her father. Believing that she is going to live with a wealthy relative, Kezban is humiliated by the people in the house she goes to because she is a villager, and she becomes determined to improve herself and change...

Kezban

1968

Namus Kanla Yazılır poster
9.0

Two brothers meet again after many years.

Namus Kanla Yazılır

1966

Acemi Çapkın poster
7.0

The film tells the story of Sıtkı Bey, who lives a different life during the day and at night. Sıtkı Bey, who owns a typing course, is a quiet and cold man who is not interested in women. This attitude also affects his students. However, Sıtkı Bey takes on a different character at night. He does not remember what he does at night during the day. Due to his nocturnal escapades, he gains many enemies. When his escapades become known, the typing course will also be in danger.

Acemi Çapkın

1964

Cesur Kabadayı poster
9.0

Murat is disowned by his father because of a trap set by his stepmother. One day, he rescues a girl named Kezban from bandits. From Kezban, he learns about the oppression Celal Ağa has inflicted on the villagers. Settling in one of the abandoned houses in the village, Murat engages in a struggle with the agha's men. It becomes clear that Murat's sole purpose is not to protect the villagers from the agha when he confronts Celal Ağa. The scar on the agha's face will remind Murat of the oath of revenge he swore in the past.

Cesur Kabadayı

1969

Some Like it Hot poster
7.0

Two musicians witness a mob hit and need to quickly find a way out of city. Their only opportunity comes in the form of joining an all-girl band as they prepare to leave on a tour. The two disguise themselves as women and struggle to keep their identities secret as the gangsters close in.

Some Like it Hot

1964

Kartalların Öcü: Severek Ölenler poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kartalların Öcü: Severek Ölenler

1965

I Want to Die With You poster
8.0

The woman, whose every request is fulfilled by her husband but still fails to be happy, starts to get away from everything by giving herself to alcohol.

I Want to Die With You

1969

The Bomb Girl poster
8.0

Erol, who is rescued by the boss of a casino, meets a world he does not know when Kenan offers him a job. Erol and Kenan, who became friends in a short time, broke up for an unexpected reason.

The Bomb Girl

1964

Elveda Sevgilim poster
9.0

Nuri, from the Selimoğulları family, kills Turgut, from the Kadiroğulları family. However, he is saved from prison thanks to his relatives who witnessed the crime. Both families have children who have been educated abroad. Dr. Osman, from the Kadiroğulları family, is in love with his uncle's daughter, Türkan. However, Türkan sees him as an older brother. Kemal, an engineer from the Selimoğulları family, also loves Türkan. The three young people begin to fight in their own way to resolve the blood feud. Over time, Kemal and Türkan grow closer. However, the feuding families oppose this relationship and make plans for revenge.

Elveda Sevgilim

1965

Düşman Aşıklar poster
10.0

The film tells the story of Gonca, who pursues a man who tortured her fiancé and caused his death. Gonca, who accidentally caused the death of her fiancé Kemal, vows to take revenge on the mafia boss known as Tüccar, who is responsible for the incident. Gonca and her assistant Cemil begin following clues that will lead them to Tüccar. Gonca, who is aware of a plan Tüccar is about to carry out, will face other obstacles in her quest to reach him.

Düşman Aşıklar

1967

Tığ Gibi Delikanlı poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tığ Gibi Delikanlı

1964

Osman Killed Me poster
7.4

After the death of a wealhty man, family members are gather in the mansion to receive the hereditary share. The police enters the circuit after some mysterious deaths in the mansion.

Osman Killed Me

1963

The Adventure Woman poster
10.0

The film is about the adventure and drama-filled lives of a handsome man who cross paths with a beautiful woman.

The Adventure Woman

1964

Şeker Hafiye poster
6.5

Osman is about to marry his boss's daughter, Fatma. He swears solemnly that he will not flirt with other women. Moreover, his boss has vowed to shoot him if such a thing happens. However, due to a major stroke of bad luck, the police need Osman to solve an important case. At first, the young man refuses the offer. But when the women he has had relationships with in the past begin to be killed one by one, he is forced to cooperate. He must find a woman who is the sole heir to a large inheritance and save her from being killed.

Şeker Hafiye

1965

Varan Biiir poster
9.0

Hüseyin goes to a bar to have a drink. There is no one else inside except for a drunk customer. A mysterious man arrives shortly after, looking for a woman with green eyes and a straw hat. Before Hüseyin has a chance to say that there is no such person, the drunk customer pulls out a gun and shoots the man. Hüseyin suddenly finds himself in the middle of a murder case. Later that night, when he goes outside, he happens to come across the woman described. Her name is Perihan. At first, she denies the allegations. However, when she learns that the incident has been reported to the police, she is forced to tell the truth. Perihan is cheating on her husband. A enemy who finds out about this blackmails her. The woman, trying to escape, finds herself involved in a series of crimes, from theft to murder.

Varan Biiir

1964

End of the Road poster
10.0

A youth joins a gang to help his family. After the gang robs a supermarket, they flee in a car, which later breaks down. With the police on their trail, the gang enters a prominent lawman's home, threatening him and his family and trying to hide their loot there, but things get out of hand as another escaped gang joins them.

End of the Road

1968

Hırçın Kadın poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hırçın Kadın

1967

Kalbimdeki Yabancı poster
9.0

Osman has come to Istanbul to find work. However, he returns empty-handed from every place he applies to. Finally, one day his luck changes. He encounters a man who looks exactly like him. The wealthy gentleman is fleeing from the men who are after him. Switching places with Osman will save his life. The sharp young man accepts the offer. That evening, he plans to return the gentleman's clothes and wallet and go his own way. However, an unexpected accident throws his plans into disarray. The man he took the place of has lost his life in a train accident. Osman finds himself in an unfamiliar life. Thanks to his servant Mücteba, he quickly adapts to the situation. No problems arise until the gentleman's wife realizes he is a stranger.

Kalbimdeki Yabancı

1968

Ağaçlar Ayakta Ölür poster
9.0

Turkish adaptation of Alejandro Casona's classic play Los Árboles Mueren De Pie.

Ağaçlar Ayakta Ölür

1964

Hop Dedik poster
10.0

After drinking excessively at the nightclub, Ferit takes someone else's coat instead of his own. When he realizes that the coat does not belong to him, he returns to the nightclub, but it is already closed. When he goes to the address written on the card he finds in the coat pocket, he comes across a dead body. The victim is Sadık, one of the nightclub's partners. Ferit and Hüseyin, a crime novel enthusiast who becomes involved in the case by chance, will work in coordination with the police to solve the case.

Hop Dedik

1963

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