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Ekrem Bora

Ekrem Bora

Actor · died at 80

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Age at death80
Birth dateMarch 4, 1932
BirthplaceAnkara
DiedApril 1, 2012
Place of deathIstanbul, Turkey
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signPisces

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Ekrem Bora — Biography

Turkish film and television actor Ekrem Bora was born Ekrem Şerif Uçak in Ankara on March 4, 1932, and died in Istanbul on April 1, 2012. Just forty days old when his father died in a training-flight accident, he moved with his family to Istanbul, and after primary school trained as a typesetter and bookbinder at the Sultanahmet State Printing House course.

In 1953 he won an acting contest run by Yıldız magazine but was called up for military service before he could appear on screen; after his discharge he made his debut in Alın Yazısı (1956). Over a career of roughly 150 films, nearly all of his roles were dubbed by other voice actors, chiefly Saadettin Erbil and Levent Dönmez. His credits include Acı Hayat, Gözleri Ömre Bedel, Yalnız Değiliz, Denizciler Geliyor, Yakılacak Kitap, Ayrılık, Kanlı Para, Çılgınlar, Baskın, Unutulmayanlar, Soğuktu ve Yağmur Çiseliyordu, and Yumuşak Ten, and in later years he took television roles in Gümüş and Makber.

He won the Golden Orange Best Actor award twice, for Sürtük in 1966 and for Soğuktu ve Yağmur Çiseliyordu in 1991, and later received lifetime achievement honors from the Golden Orange and Golden Boll festivals. Bora died of heart failure at a hospital in Kadıköy at age 80 and was buried at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery.

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Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

Unutulmayanlar is the fastest showing of Ekrem Bora's adventure side: seven long-haul drivers are dragged unwillingly into arms smuggling with the police on their heels. Kanlı Para is short at 74 minutes and tells of an ex-robber pulled back into crime without wasting words. In Çılgınlar an emotional thread is mixed into the heist plan; in my view that mix slows the pace.

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

In Soğuktu ve Yağmur Çiseliyordu Ekrem Bora is at the centre of a film that builds the relationship through Leyla's memories and flashbacks, as Cemal Bey; the film opens with his death, which asks of the actor restraint rather than show. Set beside the spoiled rich man's son Ender in Acı Hayat, the roughly thirty years between them become visible: from a type who treats love and money as toys to a grave man known through his music. In my view that is the most interesting contrast in Bora's filmography.

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