Aytaç Arman

Aytaç Arman

Actor · died at 69

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Age at death69
Birth dateJune 22, 1949
BirthplaceAdana
DiedFebruary 26, 2019
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signCancer

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Aytaç Arman — Biography

Veysel İnce, known as Aytaç Arman, was born in Adana on 22 June 1949 and died in Istanbul on 26 February 2019. He finished a boys' vocational art school in Adana and, while studying architecture in Ankara, entered acting through a magazine beauty contest, placing second behind Tarık Akan in a 1971 competition. A part in Yılmaz Güney's Father brought him attention, and he quickly rose to leading roles. His performance in The Enemy, scripted by Güney, won him a Best Actor prize from the Cinema Writers' Association, and he won the same category at the Antalya Golden Orange festival for Night Journey. During the early-1980s military era he was tried before a military court over renaming a magazine he published, and was acquitted; in the late 1990s he served on a Culture Ministry film-review board. He appeared in films such as Bedrana, Her Name Is Vasfiye, The Encounter and Unsent Letters, and in television series including Kara Para Aşk and Adını Feriha Koydum, and received a lifetime achievement honor in 2015. He was married to Radife Baltaoğlu and had a son, and died at 69 of cancer, being buried in his native Adana.

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Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Aytaç Arman's defining collaboration in cinema is Ömer Kavur: Ali in Gece Yolculuğu, the Hatted Man in Akrebin Yolculuğu, and also Melekler Evi and Karşılaşma. Moving between the modern, European-flavoured Gece Yolculuğu and the surreal-leaning Akrebin Yolculuğu is, in my view, the clearest cross-section of Arman's passage from popular Yeşilçam to auteur cinema.

Yeşilçam Nostalgic A viewer raised on the classics, looking for warm storytelling and strong acting.

A basketball player in Ertem Eğilmez's cheerful world of Tatlı Dillim, then thirteen years later Emin in Atıf Yılmaz's woman's film Adı Vasfiye: Aytaç Arman is a face that has seen both Yeşilçam's popular comedy and its search for a new cinema. Carrying both ends in one career makes his work, in my view, warm and varied.

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