İzzet Günay
İzzet Günay (born 21 August 1934 in Üsküdar, İstanbul) is Turkish film and theatre/stage actor. He is one of the most experienced and well known Turkish actors with appearances in more than 100 films across six decades.
Biography
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 1958 Günay made his film debut in the Kemal Film production Kırık Plak as Zeki Müren's driver. After a number of small roles, he landed the main role in Varan Bir. For a short time, he had a musical career in classical music. He won the Best Actor award at the Antalya Golden Orange Festival for his role in Ağaçlar Ayakta Ölür in 1964.[1]
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- Atıf Yılmaz, Hülya Koçyiğit, Tarık Akan, Türkan Şoray (1996)
- Fikret Hakan, Müjde Ar, Nejat Saydam, Yılmaz Duru (1997)
- Fatma Girik, Memduh Ün, Kemal Sunal (1998)
- Şerif Gören, Nedim Otyam, Cahit Berkay, Göksel Arsoy, Cüneyt Arkın, Türker İnanoğlu, Osman Şahin, Hayati Hamzaoğlu (1999)
- Kadir İnanır, Ekrem Bora, Orhan Günşıray, Sümer Tilmaç, Filiz Akın, Zülfü Livaneli, Orhan Aksoy (2000)
- Ediz Hun, Suna Pekuysal, Bülent Oran, Sırrı Gültekin (2001)
- Hulki Saner, İzzet Günay, Kartal Tibet, Kenan Kurt, Selda Alkor (2002)
- Kadri Yurdatap, Tunç Başaran, Çolpan İlhan, Muhterem Nur, Tanju Gürsu, Süleyman Turan, Rafet Şiriner (2003)
- Şener Şen, Hale Soygazi (2004)
- Seyfi Havaeri, Efgan Efekan, Nebahat Çehre (2005)
- Aytaç Arman, Yusuf Sezgin (2006)
- Yavuz Turgul, Halil Ergün (2007)
- Yılmaz Atadeniz (2008)
- Vedat Türkali, Ülkü Erakalın, Yalçın Tura, Sevda Ferdağ (2009)
- Ertem Göreç, Safa Önal, Gülşen Bubikoğlu, Nur Sürer, Metin Akpınar, Zeki Alasya (2010)
- Mehmet Dinler, Tuncel Kurtiz, Perran Kutman, Halit Akçatepe, Engin Çağlar (2011)
- Salih Güney, Meral Zeren, Güler Ökten, Necip Sarıcı, Duygu Sağıroğlu (2012)
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