Person Details
Birthday: 1961-08-18 09:12:55
Death: 2020-09-03 09:12:55
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Silifke, Mersin, Turkey
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 26
TV Involvements: 17
Most Famous Work
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Birol Ünel (born 18 August 1961) is a German actor of Turkish descent. He has acted in a number of German and Turkish films, TV series and theatrical productions. His name, "Birol", means "unique" in Turkish. Ünel was born in Mersin in southern Turkey. In 1968, his family moved to Brinkum near Bremen in Germany. He studied acting at Hanover Conservatory. Ünel began as a theatre actor at the Berliner Tacheles where he played the lead and also directed the play "Caligula". Ünel made his film debut in 1988's The Passenger. He played a private detective in the film Dealer which he followed up with a role in Fatih Akın's Im Juli. Birol then acted in the award winning Gegen die Wand as Cahit Tomruk. He won the German film prize for best actor for this role. His latest films have been Transylvania, Seven Heroes and Soul Kitchen. Ünel also acted in the hit Turkish film Hırsız var! in 2005. Description above from the Wikipedia article Birol Ünel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Famous Work
Scene of the Crime
(1970) HenkelEnemy at the Gates
(2001) PolitrukA Case For Two
(1981) KlausGerman Film Awards
(1951) SelfDer Fahnder
(1984) ErolSleepless Night
(2011) YilmazDer Clown
(1998) Cosmo NunnariHead-On
(2004) Cahit TomrukActing
Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
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2018 | İvan | |
2016 | Aslan | |
Hausmeister | ||
Kongo | ||
2015 | Americo | |
2012 | Lupô | |
2011 | Yilmaz | |
2009 | Shayn Weiss | |
2008 | Gansar | |
2007 | Jaro | |
Axel | ||
2006 | Herr Gold | |
Tchangalo | ||
2005 | Herr Weiß | |
Pamir | ||
2004 | Demir | |
Cahit Tomruk | ||
himself | ||
Guru | ||
2003 | Birol | |
Nick | ||
2002 | Sylvester | |
Hasan | ||
Tschokan Bischkek | ||
2001 | Politruk | |
Milan | ||
2000 | Bernd Schlegel | |
Club Doyen | ||
Osman | ||
1999 | Moritz | |
Erdal | ||
1998 | Cosmo Nunnari | |
Mustafa | ||
Siggi Kirchlechner | ||
1997 | N/A | |
1996 | Dieter Lohmann | |
Yusuf | ||
Harkan Bülent | ||
1995 | Tobias Wölke | |
Achim Koch | ||
1992 | Schulte | |
1988 | N/A | |
1984 | Nick Peters | |
Erol | ||
1981 | Klaus | |
1980 | Kemal | |
1970 | Gürkan Agban | |
Rico Baumann | ||
Henkel | ||
Houari Al'Bakr | ||
1951 | Self | |
N/A | ||
Birol Ünel | ||
Year | Character | Movie/Tv |