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Ekrem Dümer

Ekrem Dümer

Actor · died at 71

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Age at death71
Birth dateOctober 15, 1928
BirthplaceIstanbul
DiedMarch 9, 2000
Place of deathIstanbul, Turkey
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signLibra

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Ekrem Dümer — Biography

Ekrem Dümer, born on 15 October 1928 in Istanbul, was one of Yeşilçam's best-known character actors. He was typically cast as authority figures — a police chief, doctor, judge, lawyer or caring family patriarch — lending gravity to the films he appeared in; among these roles were the police chief in Sosyete Şaban and the doctor in Tarzan Rıfkı, and he also appeared in cult series such as Hababam Sınıfı Dokuz Doğuruyor.

After gaining amateur stage experience at the people's houses (halkevleri) between 1937 and 1947, he made his professional debut in 1947 with the Sadi Tek Theatre, then performed with the Tevhid Bilge and Aziz Basmacı troupes and for years with the Istanbul City Theatres before moving into film from 1954 onward. He shared sets with stars such as Kemal Sunal, Tarık Akan and Filiz Akın across hundreds of films, with Fadime, Kanlı Para, Acı Hayat, Kin, Şafakta Buluşalım, İnsanları Seveceksin, Canikom and Kanun Gücü among the highlights of his career. In the 1990s he became known to younger audiences as well through his role as Nihat in the television series Süper Baba.

His son, Yalçın Dümer, also became an actor and one of Yeşilçam's well-known leading men. Ekrem Dümer died in Istanbul on 9 March 2000 from an illness for which he was being treated at Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty Hospital.

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

A doctor in Hababam Sınıfı and a bureaucrat in Hababam Sınıfı Sınıfta Kaldı: Ekrem Dümer is one of the sober faces beside the noisy classroom of this series. The first Hababam Sınıfı and Sınıfta Kaldı, known as the series' biggest earner, make a good way in; his doctor in Kapıcılar Kralı is a pleasant third stop for the same serious bearing inside a comedy about migration from Anatolia to Istanbul.

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

A doctor in Kapıcılar Kralı, a commissioner in Mağlup Edilemeyenler, a judge in Madde 438: the mould Ekrem Dümer works in is dependable but narrow. He is the face called in when a script needs an authority, steadying the scene with his seriousness, but the films give him little chance to show a second layer beneath the authority figure. The value of his supporting work, in my view, lies in consistency rather than in any single part.

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Mağlup Edilemeyenler is a film built around press freedom and corruption, and Ekrem Dümer plays a commissioner in it. Madde 438 takes its name from a penal-code article and shows the world of the courts, and there he is a judge. In both he is the face that carries the weight of the institutions being questioned. In my view his commissioner and judge sum up, with a calm face, where Yeşilçam stood in relation to its institutions.

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