Erdal Özyağcılar is a Turkish

Turkish people

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

 actor. He has appeared in films, on the stage and on television.

Biography

Özyağcılar was born in 1948 in Bursa

Bursa, Turkey

Bursa is a city in northwestern Turkey and the seat of Bursa Province. The metropolitan area in the entire Bursa province had a population of 2.6 million as of 2010, making the city fourth most populous in Turkey. The city is equally one of the most industrialized metropolitan centers in the...

. He started his acting career in 1967, with the movie "Ölüm Tarlası" (Field of Death). He is a theater artist as well as a screen actor, who had roles in many plays, movies and TV series. He also appeared in TV commercials.

Özyağcılar is a popular character in the TV series Yabancı Damat

Yabanci Damat

Yabancı Damat , is a popular Turkish TV series distributed by Erler Film with 106 episodes in...

, which is famous both in Turkey and Greece

Greece

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.

The artist regained his popularity in Turkey in 2007 with the series named Elveda Rumeli (Farewell Rumelia

Rumelia

Rumelia was an historical region comprising the territories of the Ottoman Empire in Europe...

), portraying a Turkish peasant living during the turmoil times of 19th century in Balkans

Balkans

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 region, near Monastir

Monastir Province, Ottoman Empire

The Vilayet of Monastir was an Ottoman vilayet, created in 1864. The Monastir Vilayet was occupied during the First Balkan War in 1912 and later divided between Principality of Albania, Kingdom of Greece and Kingdom of Serbia.- Demographics :...

, with his family, when Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 started to lose territory and fall back.

He is married to Güzin Özyağcılar, also a theater actress.

TV Series

• Karadağlar
  Karadağlar
  Karadağlar is a Turkish television drama loosely based on the novel The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It airs on Show TV every week on Monday evenings at 20.00 local time, and is repeated on Wednesdays at 23.00, as well as on Sundays at 16.45.-Overview:Karadağlar is set in the 1930s,...
  
  , 2010, playing Halit Karadağ
• Elveda Rumeli, 2007, playing Ramiz
• Yabancı Damat
  Yabanci Damat
  Yabancı Damat , is a popular Turkish TV series distributed by Erler Film with 106 episodes in...
  
  , 2004, playing Kahraman
• Altın Kafes, 2004, playing Cevher Kehribar
• Şehnaz Tango, 1994, playing Muhsin
• Bizimkiler, 1989, playing Şükrü

Movies

• Beyoğlu'nun Arka Yakası
• Aah Güzel İstanbul
• Züğürt Ağa
• Kibar Feyzo
• Şabaniye
• Namuslu
• Aşık Oldum
• Postacı

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