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Çetin Başaran

Çetin Başaran

Actor · born 1940

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Birth date1940
BirthplaceZonguldak
ProfessionActor

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Çetin Başaran — Biography

Çetin Başaran is a well-known name among the large supporting cast of Yeşilçam, and film fans also remember him by the nickname "Tarzan Çetin". His career, which began in 1957, stretched across more than six decades and grew to over three hundred productions, covering feature films as well as television series and TV films. Born in Zonguldak, his birth year appears as 1938 in some sources.

He tells the story of how he met Yeşilçam starting from the days when, at thirteen, he worked as a street peddler in Eminönü. From the 1960s on he appeared in productions such as Battal Gazi (1966), Beş Hergele (1971), Kan (1977) and Canikom (1979). In the early 1980s he continued with Düşkünüm Sana (1983) and İntikam Benim, Ölüme Son Adım and Vahşi Kan (1983); in Tokatçı (1983) he played Kara Erol's man. Japon İşi (1987) is also among his known credits.

In the 1990s he was seen in films such as Ula Ula Niyazi, Rambo Ramiz, Yaman Gazeteci, Şahmaran and Dönüşü Olmayan Yol, and in series such as Üçüzler, Deli Balta and 5 Maymun Çetesi. In the 2000s he stayed on screen with Arka Sokaklar and Zırtık Mafya, and Kimsesiz (2024) is one of the most recent entries in his filmography.

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

In Çetin Başaran's Kemal Sunal comedies the part follows one mould: Kara Erol's man in Tokatçı, Kara Mithat's man in İnek Şaban, Dilaver's man in Japon İşi. Even the role's name hangs on the boss, so the character is defined as an extension of the villain. In my view that serves this kind of comedy, because it makes the boss's circle look crowded; the one part not named after a boss is the Cellat in Şahmaran.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

Çetin Başaran's supporting parts make visible the order that stands against Kemal Sunal's little man: in Tokatçı, around Osman and his bride-price worries, and in Japon İşi, beside the mafia boss Dilaver who wants to marry a singer by force, he is always the boss's man. In my view these roles add up to a social type: the person who does the daily work of whoever holds power, without a name of his own.

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