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Tuncay Akça
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Tuncay Akça

Actor · died at 60

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Age at death60
Birth dateDecember 16, 1963
BirthplaceKastamonu
DiedAugust 17, 2024
ProfessionActor
Zodiac signSagittarius

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Tuncay Akça — Biography

Tuncay Akça came up as a child performer in Yeşilçam and kept working into adulthood as a Turkish character actor. In the Hababam Sınıfı films he played "Bacaksız", the boy laughing at the drenched pupils, and his line "Abi siz neden her sabah tek ayak üzerinde duruyorsunuz?" is still associated with him. He appeared in more than a hundred films and series and died in 2024.

He was shining shoes in Istanbul when he turned up at the set of Ertem Eğilmez's Hababam Sınıfı; his laugh caught attention and he was given a short part. The next step was the 1979 children's film Bebek, in which he played Apo, a boy who comes from Kâhta to Istanbul looking for his father; the lead role earned him a special award from the film writers' association SİYAD. On the strength of that performance he joined the cast of Şerif Gören's Yol, the Palme d'Or winner at Cannes, as Yusuf, the prisoner who goes on leave with his bird. He played Memidik in Yer Demir Gök Bakır (1987) and came back to Bacaksız years later in Hababam Sınıfı Merhaba (2003). On television he reached a wide audience between 1995 and 2002 as Adem in Bizimkiler.

In the 2000s he entered politics: he stood for the Ümraniye municipal council in 2004 and for mayor of Sancaktepe (Samandıra) in 2009, and joined the İYİ Parti on 5 August 2022. He also founded a sports club to keep young people away from drugs. He died in Istanbul on 17 August 2024 and was buried in Karacaahmet Cemetery.

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

Tuncay Akça's work splits by who is watching. Hababam Sınıfı Sınıfta Kaldı, the comedy in which he plays Bacaksız, suits everyone together. Bebek is a children's film about a boy named Apo looking for his father, and it is the best fit for watching with kids. Yol is a heavy story of prisoners on leave, with Akça as Yusuf; keep it for the grown-ups.

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

Tuncay Akça travelled a road in Yeşilçam that began with child acting: he entered the Hababam Sınıfı films with a short part and reached the lead in Bebek as Apo. In my view that move shows how Ertem Eğilmez's comedies also made room for children, which is why Akça is worth remembering as one of Yeşilçam's child faces.

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