Kemal Sunal

Acting

Kemal Sunal

Born 1944-11-11 · İstanbul, Türkiye

Kemal Sunal (11 November 1944 – 3 July 2000) was a Turkish actor and comedian. With Hababam Sınıfı, Kapıcılar Kralı and Davaro, Sunal gained large popularity amongst Turkish cinema goers and was famed for his character "Şaban", a role he frequently played. Kemal Sunal graduated from Vefa Lisesi (Vefa High School). In his early ages, he started pursuing what was to become a long and successful acting career in minor roles in various theatres. For a brief period, he worked in the Kenterler Theatre and debuted in the play Zoraki Tabip. He was later transferred to the Devekuşu Kabare Theatre, where he performed his acting. He was recognized as a real talent, and started receiving offers for movies with larger budgets and a more famous cast. His first bigger role was in the film "Tatlı Dillim" directed by Ertem Eğilmez. In a matter of years, Sunal co-starred alongside Halit Akçatepe, Şener Şen and Münir Özkul. Perhaps the most famous of all his parts was when he played in Hababam Sınıfı (The Outrageous Class) and was known by the name of "Şaban", but most of his classmates just called him İnek (nerd) Şaban. İnek Şaban was constantly bullied and humiliated by his friends, but this never kept him from thinking the unthinkable, like digging a tunnel to escape school grounds (which later, turned out to lead to the vice-principal's office) or smoking in the school attic. The character was so pure and so fixed in the memories of the Turkish people, it was never replaced by another actor in the recent re-shootings of Hababam Sınıfı, most probably as a sign of respect to Sunal.

Acting credits

Kanlı Nigar poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Kanlı Nigar

1981

Stubborn poster
6.7

While the dam project will be expropriated, Yellow poplar and Long poplar villages are included in the expropriation. Although this is supposed to protect the confidentiality, a member of the commission sells this information to a holding company and someone in that holding company sells what they heard to another holding company.

Stubborn

1988

Tokatçı poster
7.3

A tragicomedy dramatizing how an innocent villager is driven into the crime world only to collect enough cash to make his biggest dream come true: Return to his village home and marry the girl next door.

Tokatçı

1984

Boynu Bükük Küheylan poster
6.2

With his 2 wives Kuheylan started as a doorkeeper in an apartment after immigrating from small town to city. While Kuheylan was dreaming to be rich, his wives got impressed under city culture and joined their forses agains their husband.

Boynu Bükük Küheylan

1990

Çarıklı Milyoner poster
6.5

Hilmi Tok is a billionaire businessman. He dies one day while driving his own car. His real estate assets goes his son Bayram.

Çarıklı Milyoner

1983

The Chaos Class poster
8.0

A group of affluent private school slackers enjoy a prankster lifestyle until a tough new disciplinarian headmaster arrives.

The Chaos Class

1975

Zübük poster
8.5

This is the story of the politician named Zübük. He gets expelled from the political party that he is a member of, due to corruption. The journalist Yaşar wants to make a news story about his case and investigates Zübük's doings. Yaşar gets baffled at the sly tricks Zübük played on his village people. In the end, he feels sorry about Zübük's present situation, however, as things happen he becomes aware that Zübük has been tricking him.

Zübük

1980

Feyzo, The Polite One poster
7.9

To bid for his beloved's hand in marriage, poor villager Feyzo must come up with an enormous dowry to appease her father.

Feyzo, The Polite One

1978

Trickster poster
7.5

Rıfkı, who lives in Germany, returns to his village, which he left years ago, to sell the properties inherited from his late father. A few coincidences that occur upon his arrival in the village lead to his name being associated with the 'Saint' title.

Trickster

1981

Propaganda poster
6.6

Based on a true story set in 1948, customs officer Mehti is faced with the duty of formally setting up the border between Turkey and Syria, dividing his hometown. He is unaware of the pain that will eminently unfold, as families, languages, cultures and lovers are both ripped apart and clash head on in a village once united.

Propaganda

1999

Şaban Pabucu Yarım poster
5.9

No synopsis available yet.

Şaban Pabucu Yarım

1985

The Handsome poster
5.5

Selim is a paperboy who delivers the morning papers with his truck. He buys a walkie talkie to find find a friend. His codename is "The Handsome". After a while he meets the girl and they start a relationship. It is hard for them to get married.

The Handsome

1987

Davaro poster
7.8

Memo returns from Germany to get married with his love but his fathers killer Sulo is being released from jail. As a village rule he has to get revenge for his fahter or he can not get married but he doesn't want to kill so they stage a fake death with Sulo and after that his luck runs out.

Davaro

1981

Bıçkın poster
6.0

Ali, who looks exactly like the famous actor Kemal Sunal, is in love with his neighbor Zehra. However, Zehra, who is a fan of Kemal Sunal, does not reciprocate Ali's love. Despite Ali's insistence, she rejects him. Ali will temporarily take Kemal Sunal's place in order to be with Zehra.

Bıçkın

1988

The Chaos Class Is Waking Up poster
7.8

A sincere and hardworking student joins the Chaos Class, but acceptance seems unlikely when he becomes the target of their pranks.

The Chaos Class Is Waking Up

1976

Tarzan Rıfkı poster
6.5

A story about a poor and guilt guy who is being used by mafia for dirty work.

Tarzan Rıfkı

1986

Seat Trouble poster
6.9

Political satire comedy featuring the memories of a red leather chair. He is aware that no matter who the next governor will be, more corrupted will the system get. But only until the last governor who decides to set him on fire.

Seat Trouble

1990

Şendul Şaban poster
6.6

She works as a factory worker alongside Şaban Ali. One day, they are fired for asking their boss for a raise. They search for work for a long time but cannot find any. Necla tells Şaban that it is easier for women to find work, and the couple make a bet. The next day, Necla starts working as a secretary. The roles at home change. Necla becomes the man of the house, and Şaban becomes the woman of the house. However, the couple is unhappy because of Necla's long working hours.

Şendul Şaban

1985

The Foster Brothers poster
8.0

Saban, Ramazan and Bayram are sailors in an Ottoman Navy and Hüsamettin is their commander. Hüsamettin's aide Ramazan, Saban who is foster son of Hüsamettin's sister and Bayram who is married to Hüsamettin's niece stays at Hüsamettin's family residence. Hüsamettin's sister thinks Ramazan is her foster son Saban when she realizes her mistake she introduces Ramazan to her brother as her son in law Bayram since she was afraid of Hüsamettin's short-tempered character. Things get complicated when real Saban and Bayram come to the residence. Now Saban has to be Ramazan and Bayram has to be Saban. Meanwhile, a gulyabani (a ghoul from Turkish folklore) haunts the residence.

The Foster Brothers

1976

Nightingale poster
7.1

The comical story of Şaban, who came to Istanbul to earn his dowry and, by chance, became a famous folk singer known as Şaban Ballıses.

Nightingale

1979

Polizei poster
6.6

Working as a modest garbage collector and part-time theater assistant in Berlin, Ali Ekber feels betrayed by his friends. After getting his hands on a theater prop Politzei uniform, he uses it to pose as a Politzei and impress his love - waitress Babett.

Polizei

1988

Zehir Hafiye poster
5.7

The story of a young man who loves crime fiction books, and the daugher of a mafia leader.

Zehir Hafiye

1989

My Dear Brother poster
8.3

Two poor men try to find a television as a last wish for the terminally ill brother of one of them.

My Dear Brother

1973

The Postman poster
7.1

Sevtap and Adem, the postman in the neighborhood, are in love with each other. Sevtap remained single until the age of 30 because no one liked her, so she is still a virgin and has settled for Adem. However, there is someone who opposes this love, her older brother Latif, who was raised in German culture but can be described as a complete fool. One day, Sevtap and Adem send a telegram from Sevtap's father's mouth to convince him to accept the situation. After this telegram, wedding preparations begin. However, during this time, Latif returns permanently from Germany to Turkey, and the truth about the couple is revealed. Latif opposes the marriage at any cost, even if it means harming Adem. Later, despite his reservations, he accepts the marriage and fulfills Adem's every request.

The Postman

1984

Behind the camera

Çarıklı Milyoner poster
6.5

Hilmi Tok is a billionaire businessman. He dies one day while driving his own car. His real estate assets goes his son Bayram.

Çarıklı Milyoner

1983

Dokunmayın Şabanıma poster
6.8

Şaban is a minibus driver who is unsuccessful with women, while Ökkeş is a complete womanizer. Ökkeş and Şaban, two old army buddies, cross paths one day in prison. Ökkeş, who is being forced by his father to marry, asks Şaban to take his place, and they switch roles. However, when both of them fall in love with the daughter of the house they go to, things get complicated. The girl they are in love with has switched places with the housekeeper...

Dokunmayın Şabanıma

1979

Poor poster
6.8

Kemal is a young man who does all kinds of work to make ends meet and is passionate about football. The young man who makes his living from the hardest, one day finds a baby abandoned on the side of the road. Kemal, who adopted the orphaned baby, raises and takes care of the girl like the baby's father.

Poor

1986

Sosyete Şaban poster
6.5

Country bumpkin Şaban Ağa has long dreamed of winning the heart of Peri, the high-society belle he plans to marry, though she doesn’t even know he exists. Spurned when Peri agrees to wed him for his money then flees back to city life, Şaban reinvents himself as the sophisticated Dilaver Bey to exact his sweet revenge.

Sosyete Şaban

1985

100 Numaralı Adam poster
7.5

A poor young man chosen by a advertising company, and they made him a public hero to make him advertise poor quality products that no one buys.

100 Numaralı Adam

1978

Nosey Zühtü poster
6.6

Zuhtu, a nosy hawker who sells meatballs, one night finds a young girl escaping from her cruel relatives. He intends to help the girl but this costs him too much.

Nosey Zühtü

1976

İnek Şaban poster
6.7

A poor grocery owner becomes a popular goalkeeper.

İnek Şaban

1979