Çetin Tekindor

Çetin Tekindor — Biography

Çetin Tekindor is a Turkish actor whose career of nearly five decades runs from the theatre stage through television to cinema. Wide audiences remember him above all as the village elder Hüseyin Efendi in Babam ve Oğlum, as Sinan, nicknamed Kral, in Yılan Hikayesi, and as Celal Duman in İçerde. In 2026 he is on screen in Star TV's Çirkin.

His route began on stage. He graduated from the Ankara State Conservatory in 1970 and, alongside acting, taught stage technique and diction at Hacettepe and then, until 1998, at Bilkent. His public profile first grew through dubbing the police chief played by Rock Hudson in a foreign series for TRT; Küçük Ağa made him a familiar face on screen, and Kaçamak (1987) was his first film. From 1999 Yılan Hikayesi, then Ömer Arhan in Bir İstanbul Masalı and Şeytan Ayrıntıda Gizlidir, made him a sought-after lead in television drama. Later he played İhsan Kozcuoğlu in Asi, Nazif Kara in Karadayı and Çandarlı Halil Pasha in Mehmed: Bir Cihan Fatihi, and took a part in Yalı Çapkını.

In cinema he won Best Actor at the 2003 Ankara Film Festival for Karşılaşma, and Babam ve Oğlum (2005) brought him the same award at SİYAD and ÇASOD. Ayla, Babam, Av Mevsimi and Dedemin İnsanları are among his other films. He has a son from his marriage to the actress Zerrin Tekindor.