Altan Gördüm

Altan Gördüm — Biography

Altan Gördüm is an actor from Adana who moved from the discipline of the theatre stage to film and television. Wide audiences know him as Haşmet Çolak in Bir Zamanlar Çukurova; on stage he spent years with Ankara Sanat Tiyatrosu and the State Theatre. He also teaches at an acting school he founded with his former wife, Vahide Perçin.

His path began in 1978 at Ankara University's Faculty of Political Sciences; in the 1979-1980 season he joined Ankara Sanat Tiyatrosu's courses and worked in that company as actor, director, manager and instructor until the 1995-1996 season. He lived in İzmir from 1996 to 2000, and in 2000, on an invitation from the State Theatre, joined the Ankara State Theatre company. In 2009 he and Vahide Perçin founded the acting school AKADEMİ 35BUÇUK SANAT EVİ in Istanbul; their marriage ended in 2013, and they have a daughter.

On screen he was seen in Yılan Hikayesi and Hayat Bilgisi (as Panzer Emin Hoca) and played Kamil in Kavak Yelleri. In cinema his work includes Devrim Arabaları (2008), Labirent (2011), Türk Pasaportu (2011; as Behiç Erkin) and Şeytan-ı Racim (2013); he also took roles in Canım Babam, Muhteşem Yüzyıl and the second season of Beni Böyle Sev. His later work includes the films Deliormanlı, Somuncu Baba Aşkın Sırrı, Gel Dese Aşk and Kestik Babacım, and the series Yalnız Kurt, Bir Zamanlar Çukurova and Şahane Hayatım.