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Gender: Male

Place of birth: İstanbul, Türkiye

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Movie Involvements: 9

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Biography

Engin Çağlar (28 August 1940 – 1 November 2025), was a Turkish film actor. His mother was born in Skopje. His father came from a family that had migrated to Istanbul from a small town on the coast of the Sea of Azov. His father owned a factory that manufactured industrial materials. He attended Robert College for secondary school. In 1958, he played football for a short time at Galatasaray. He studied at university in Germany. He was conscripted into the military in 1965. While serving as a sailor for two years, he was even stationed in Cyprus. After his discharge, he entered a competition run by Ses magazine and came second after Uğur Güçlü. That same year, names such as Kadir İnanır, Sümer Tilmaç, Demir Karahan, and Altan Bozkurt also participated in the competition. He began his film career in 1968 with Bilge Olgaç's film Öksüz. In 1969, he gained recognition by starring alongside Hülya Koçyiğit in the film Kınalı Yapıncak, directed by Orhan Aksoy. After signing with Hulki Saner, she appeared in films directed by Metin Erksan and left cinema in 1974. She has appeared in a few films since then but has not fully returned to cinema. In 2016, she was elected chair of the board of directors of the FİLMSAN Foundation.

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Kınalı Yapıncak
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Kınalı Yapıncak

(1969) Fikret Kınay
Feride
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6

Feride

(1971) Kemal
İlişki
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3

İlişki

(1983) Murat
Yearning
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6

Yearning

(1974) Ferdi
İntizar
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0

İntizar

(1973) Kemal
Öksüz
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0

Öksüz

(1968) Ali
Süreyya
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Süreyya

(1972) Kemal
Sad Love
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6

Sad Love

(1969) Selim

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