Çetin Tekindor

Çetin Tekindor — Biography

Çetin Tekindor, born in Sivas on 16 July 1945, is a Turkish stage, film and television actor who also works as a voice artist. He graduated from the Ankara State Conservatory in 1970 and began performing; he taught stage technique and diction at the Hacettepe University State Conservatory and continued in the same role at Bilkent University's theatre department until 1998. Dubbing Rock Hudson for TRT's foreign programming was among the jobs that first made him widely recognised.

His television breakthrough came in the early 1980s with Yücel Çakmaklı's Küçük Ağa, and he reached cinema in 1987 with Kaçamak, directed by Başar Sabuncu. He played Kral in Yılan Hikayesi and Ömer Arhan in Bir İstanbul Masalı. Hüseyin, his role in Çağan Irmak's Babam ve Oğlum (2005), struck a national chord and is still treated as the signature part of his career.

He was İhsan Kozcuoğlu in Asi, Nazif Kara in Karadayı and Celal Duman in İçerde, and appeared in the films Ayla, Babam, Av Mevsimi and Dedemin İnsanları as well as playing Çandarlı Halil Pasha in Mehmed: Bir Cihan Fatihi. After Yalı Çapkını he returned in 2026 in the Star TV series Çirkin. He has a son, Hira, from his marriage to the actress Zerrin Tekindor.