Erdal Beşikçioğlu

Acting

Erdal Beşikçioğlu

Born

1970-01-05 (56)

Place of birth

Ankara, Türkiye

Known for

Acting

Credits

34 titles

Erdal Beşikçioğlu (5 January 1970) is a Turkish actor. Erdal Beşikçioğlu attended İzmir Private Turkish College and Mehmet Seyfi Eraltay High School after which he studied at the Hacettepe University State Conservatory. He participated in creative workshops with William Gaskill among others. Upon graduating, he started working in several state theatres and was head of the Diyarbakır State Theatre between 1995 and 1996. He has acted in a number of films such as Eve Giden Yol 1914, Barda, Vali, Hayat Var, Kurtlar Vadisi Filistin and the Golden Bear winning Bal. He now stars as the title character Police commissioner Behzat Ç in the series Behzat Ç. Erdal Beşikçioğlu won the Golden Or…

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

2010s · 8 titles

Valley of the Wolves: Palestine poster
5.5

After the Freedom Flotilla attempts to bring humanitarian assistance to Gaza refuses to turn back, it is attacked by the Israeli military. In a dramatic battle scene, activists resist and are killed by the Israeli soldiers. A Turkish commando team led by Polat Alemdar (Necati Şaşmaz) travels to West Bank in Palestine, where they launch a campaign against Israeli military personnel in an attempt to track down and eliminate an Israeli general, leader Moşe Ben Eliyezer (Erdal Beşikçioğlu), who is the responsible for the flotilla raid.

Valley of the Wolves: Palestine

2011

Honey poster
6.7

In the remote and undeveloped eastern Black Sea region, a six-year-old boy (Yusuf) wanders through the woods searching for his lost father, trying to make sense of his life.His father is a beekeeper whose bees have disappeared unexpectedly, threatening his livelihood. A bizarre accident kills the father.There is little dialogue or music in the film. The three main characters (Yusuf and his parents) are all fairly taciturn, and the soundtrack is filled out with the sounds of the forest and the creatures that live there.The environment is a recurring theme.

Honey

2010

Ladybug poster
6.2

Uğur and Barış are childhood friends. They run a DVD store opened by Barış's uncle Engin, who is a motorcycle manufacturer. Uğur is in love with Leyla, Barış's cousin and Engin's sister. Leyla is not indifferent to Uğur either; they occasionally meet in secret without her brother's knowledge. Leyla's greatest wish is to escape her brother's control and start a new life with Uğur. However, Uğur is not much help to Leyla in this endeavor. How can he face Engin and ask for Leyla's hand in marriage? He hasn't even managed to get his own life in order. The solution comes from Barış. They will shoot a film starring Uğur and Leyla. However, when they watch what they have filmed, they realize that this task is not as easy as they thought. While seeking help, they come across a director.

Ladybug

2013

Opening the Door poster
5.4

Yakup and Şemsa are Assyrians living in Berlin with their three children and grandchildren. Twenty-five years ago they migrated from Mardin to Berlin. One day they receive a phone call from Mardin. This unexpected call deals with their son Mikhael, whom they lost twenty-five years ago. All the suffering of the family is refreshed. Yakup and Şemsa go to Mardin with their grandchildren, Nardin, who do not want to leave them alone. This trip will be the beginning of all their personal journeys. When the craftsman Yakup, who had not come for years, abandoned his village and saw his house looted; He will go after his house door. On his journey of finding the door, he will be accompanied by her granddaughter Nardin and the smuggler Remzi.

Opening the Door

2019

Behzat Ç.: I Buried You in My Heart poster
6.8

An aggressive police officer tries to solve the mystery behind consecutive murders. While doing so, he must fight against his inner demons.

Behzat Ç.: I Buried You in My Heart

2011

Operation Cicero poster
6.0

Ilyas Bazna works as a butler in the British Embassy in Turkey during WW2. After Bazna starts to work as a German spy he is going to experience a series of unexpected events.

Operation Cicero

2019

Behzat Ç.: Ankara Is on Fire poster
6.5

In the absence of Behzat Ç., a superintendent named Himmet gets replaced as the president of the murder Bureau. When the murder of minister of Interior makes a big impact, Himmet decides to take advantage of it and he makes his team help the fight against terrorism bureau.

Behzat Ç.: Ankara Is on Fire

2013

But Muzeyyen That's the Deepest Desire poster
6.4

Arif, who is trying to write his first book, believes that life contains many unanswerable questions, especially about women and relationships. But when Müzeyyen appears unexpectedly, everything he has ever known or tried to learn is suddenly turned upside down.

But Muzeyyen That's the Deepest Desire

2014

2000s · 4 titles

Vali poster
7.0

The suspicious deaths began with the information obtained by MTA engineer Ömer Uçar, who has been a friend of Governor Faruk Yazıcı since childhood, and his colleagues regarding the rich uranium deposit in the region. And the hidden and overt powers behind capital that want this system to continue…

Vali

2009

At the Bar poster
6.4

A group of drug-influenced lumpen teenagers from the suburbs of the city descends into the center where they do not belong, where they are excluded. They adopted a brutal method to seize rights that were not granted to them. Unaware of what will happen to them, cheerful and well-to-do university students are helpless in the face of this gun-wielding mob that suddenly raids the bar where they are having fun.

At the Bar

2007

Eve Giden Yol 1914 poster
4.4

During the years when World War I began to turn the Ottoman Empire's territories into a war zone, the pain of a great love story that unfolded in southeastern Anatolia and present-day Syria burned as fiercely as the war itself in the hearts of those involved. Mahmut leaves his home, abandoning everything—including the person he loves—because he refuses to commit murder. After being caught up in the relentless war raging across Anatolian lands and fighting for years in the struggle for liberation, he sets out to return home. His sole desire is to reunite with the one he was forced to leave behind and to seek revenge for the injustice he suffered years ago.

Eve Giden Yol 1914

2006

My Only Sunshine poster
6.9

Hayat, her father and bedridden grandfather live in a riverside shack near the dangerously dark but breathtakingly beautiful waters of the Bosphorus. Hayat's father owns a small boat that secures the family's survival through a miscellany of not always lawful ventures. Beyond the motion and romance of the water, Hayat's life is harsh and unrelenting. But Hayat has an instinct for survival. Her capacity for courage, endurance and hope in the face of these trials suggest that there is Life despite the manifold injustices of an unjust world.

My Only Sunshine

2009

Series credits

Leyla and Mecnun poster
8.1

Leyla ile Mecnun is a Turkish television comedy series. The show is set in Istanbul, Turkey and premiered in 2011 on TRT. The series is a surreal and absurd comedy that revolves around the fictional love story between Leyla and Mecnun.

Leyla and Mecnun

2011

Behzat Ç.: An Ankara Policeman poster
7.6

Centered around a personally troubled, officially discredited police chief and his inharmonious police team in Ankara Police Force. Even though the show usually focuses on murders and other crimes that happens on a weekly basis, the undertone of the story leads to an eventual duel between Behzat Ç. and the rotten department officials and bureaucrats.

Behzat Ç.: An Ankara Policeman

2010

Es-Es poster
NR

Uras lives in an Istanbul ghetto with his big brother and mother. He works so hard to get into a university. Even though he is very smart, financial difficulties put him in a hard position. Like this isn’t enough, he has to handle his troublesome brother Aras. Uras gets into a school in Eskişehir and moves there with the help of a college teacher Işık. But Uras’s brother and his past won’t let him go that easily.

Es-Es

2008

Köprü poster
7.4

No synopsis available yet.

Köprü

2006

Abandoned poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Abandoned

2020

The Name is Legend poster
6.5

Tarik Aksoy who once was a legend in basketball tries to make life work after his wife passing away. His daughters Melis and Zeynep

The Name is Legend

2017

Hammer and Rose: A Behzat Ç. Story poster
7.8

The Hammer and the Rose: A Behzat Ç. Story is a Turkish-made detective, adventure, comedy, and action internet series inspired by the novel of the same name by Emrah Serbes, which will be published in 2022.

Hammer and Rose: A Behzat Ç. Story

2022

Hamlet poster
6.9

Shakespeare's darkest tragedy in a modern retelling of family betrayal and horse carriages. Based on a true story, light is shed on the incredible, absurd, striking realities of life and Turkey through the “kingdom of the carriage” in Büyükada.

Hamlet

2021

Kağıt Ev poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Kağıt Ev

2021

Mevzular: Açık Mikrofon poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mevzular: Açık Mikrofon

2022

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Çaylak

2003

Vanished 46 poster
7.1

A genetics professor experiments with a treatment for his comatose sister that blends medical and shamanic cures, but unlocks a shocking side effect.

Vanished 46

2016

Ödünç Hayat poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Ödünç Hayat

2005

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Seni Çok Özledim

2005

Reaction poster
7.2

The enemy of Turkey lives mostly within the borders of Turkey. A group of people who are willing to sacrifice themselves for eliminating Turkey's interior and outer enemies.

Reaction

2014

The Judge poster
7.0

A judge tries to protect his son from a death-caused hit and run situation.

The Judge

2022

Jülide Ateş ile 40 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Jülide Ateş ile 40

2021

Ayrılık poster
NR

Ayrılık: Aşkta ve Savaşta Filistin, known in English as Farewell, is a prime time Turkish television series aired on state broadcaster TRT. The series started on 13 October 2009. The concept consultant of the series is columnist Hakan Albayrak in daily Yeni Şafak who had also been on the board of MV Mavi Marmara during the Gaza flotilla raid, while its script consultant is the trade union leader Yaşar Seyman who is a columnist of the left-wing daily BirGün.

Ayrılık

2009