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Özkan Uğur
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Özkan Uğur

Actor · died at 69

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Age at death69
Birth dateOctober 17, 1953
BirthplaceIstanbul
DiedJuly 8, 2023
Place of deathIstanbul
ProfessionActor, Composer
Zodiac signLibra

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Özkan Uğur — Biography

Özkan Uğur, born Raif Özkan Uğur on 17 October 1953 in Istanbul, was the fifth child of a family whose father worked on the city's ferries, and he took up the mandolin as a schoolboy. He turned professional as a bassist in 1970 with the Şerif Yüzbaşıoğlu Orchestra, then played in Kaygısızlar, in Barış Manço's Anatolian rock band Kurtalan Ekspres, in Edip Akbayram's Dostlar Orkestrası and in Ersen ve Dadaşlar. In 1976 he joined Mazhar Alanson and Fuat Güner in İpucu Beşlisi, the partnership that became MFÖ in the early 1980s; with the band he represented Turkey at Eurovision twice, in 1985 and 1988.

He began acting in 1983 alongside Güner in Ferhan Şensoy's stage plays, then made his film debut in 1988 with Arkadaşım Şeytan. His later credits include Eşkıya, Komser Şekspir, G.O.R.A, A.R.O.G, Yahşi Batı, Pek Yakında and Arif V 216, plus the series Cennet Mahallesi and Poyraz Karayel. He married Aysun Aslan in 1989 and the couple had a son, Alişan. Diagnosed with lymphoma in 2013, he beat the disease a second time in 2020 but was diagnosed with cancer again in 2022; he died in Istanbul on 8 July 2023 at the age of 69 and was buried at Karacaahmet Cemetery.

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Their work through different eyes

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

Özkan Uğur's film work makes most sense, in my view, inside Cem Yılmaz's universe: science fiction in G.O.R.A., a Western parody in Yahşi Batı, space again in Arif V 216. He plays Garavel in G.O.R.A. and Arif V 216 and Chief Kızılkayalar in Yahşi Batı, characters that are cogs in the parody. In parody the genre builds the frame and the actor is not asked for fine psychology. Sedat in Yavuz Turgul's drama-thriller-crime blend Eşkıya is a different kind of cinema outside that playful universe.

Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humour and heart.

If you want to watch with the family, G.O.R.A. and Yahşi Batı are good choices with Özkan Uğur: one is science fiction, the other a Western spoof, and both are Cem Yılmaz comedy. Keep Erşan Kuneri for the grown-ups; it follows a producer trying to make erotic films in the 1970s and 80s, so it is not for the young. Uğur plays Dimitri in it.

These are not reader reviews: they are short editorial takes on this person's screen work, written from different viewer perspectives with AI assistance. Reader comments are below.

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