Kemal Sunal
Birthday: Born in 1944-11-11 in İstanbul, Türkiye
Deathday: 2000-07-03
Born in 1944 Istanbul, Turkey. Graduated from Vefa High School, Fatih, Istanbul. Sunal acted in many popular films, although he began his artistic career in the theater. His first play was called, "Unwilling Doctor" and he later worked at the Devekusu Kabare Theatre with Ulvi Uraz. Although Sunal had minor roles at first, after 1973 he was highly acclaimed for his roles in movies with large casts. He won the Antalya Film Festival's Golden Orange Award in 1977. He contributed greatly to Turkish cinema with his successful acting, including his roles in such movies as "Hababam Sinifi" (Outrageous Class), "Kapicilar Krali" (King of Janitors), "Salako" (Moron), "Inek Saban" (Shaban the Cow) and "Davaro". Sunal's latest role was in Sinan Cetin's border comedy "Propaganda"(1999). He also made a TV commercial. Kemal Sunal died suddenly of a heart attack on July 3 at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport. he had just boarded the plane for Trabzon, where he was to take part in the filming of director Ali Ozgenturk's "Balalaika" (2000). His death caused a wave of sorrow across Turkey. President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit and Minister of Culture Istemihan Talay and other politicians sent messages of condolence expressing their sorrow.
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Şaban Askerde
Character: Şaban
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Şaban ile Şirin
Character: Şaban
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Saygılar Bizden
Character: Rıza
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Bay Kamber
Character: Bay Kamber
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Movie Credits
The Chaos Class Is on Vacation
Character: İnek Şaban
Lazy, uneducated male students mostly coming from money, share a very close band. They live together in the dormitory of this private highschool, where they daily plan their latest pranks on teachers or the other classes. Because of the financial crisis, the headmaster agrees to enroll female students. As the new students try to fit in, a struggle between both parties start, trying to prank the other part away. The prank war continues until PE-Teacher decides to take the class out on a trip for ...
The Foster Brothers
Character: Şaban (Süt Oğlan)
Saban, Ramazan and Bayram are sailors in an Ottoman Navy and Hüsamettin is their commander. Hüsamettin's aide Ramazan, Saban who is foster son of Hüsamettin's sister and Bayram who is married to Hüsamettin's niece stays at Hüsamettin's family residence. Hüsamettin's sister thinks Ramazan is her foster son Saban when she realizes her mistake she introduces Ramazan to her brother as her son in law Bayram since she was afraid of Hüsamettin's short-tempered character. Things get complicated when rea...
The Chaos Class Is Waking Up
Character: İnek Şaban
A sincere and hardworking student joins the Chaos Class, but acceptance seems unlikely when he becomes the target of their pranks....
The Chaos Class Failed the Class
Character: İnek Şaban
A young and beautiful female teacher starts working in an all boys high school....
Saban, Son of Saban
Character: Şaban
Clumsy soldiers Şaban and Ramazan fall for a singer-dancer and accidentally become secret policemen tracking down a missing diamond....
Davaro
Character: Memo
Memo returns from Germany to get married with his love but his fathers killer Sulo is being released from jail. As a village rule he has to get revenge for his fahter or he can not get married but he doesn't want to kill so they stage a fake death with Sulo and after that his luck runs out....
Feyzo, The Polite One
Character: Feyzo
To bid for his beloved's hand in marriage, poor villager Feyzo must come up with an enormous dowry to appease her father....
Tosun Pasha
Character: Şaban/Sahte Tosun Paşa
Late 19th century in Alexandria. Two traditionally rival Turkish families, "Seferoglu"s and "Tellioglu"s are competing for the "Green Valley". The winner will be determined by Daver Bey, who has a beautiful young daughter, Leyla. Both families try to arrange a marriage between a man from their family and Leyla, so that Daver Bey will be inclined to give the green valley to his "relatives". Tellioglus, who are behind in the race, desperately find a final solution: They will fake their idiotic but...
Köşeyi Dönen Adam
Character: Adem
Adem is working as a waiter and he gets fired at that moment he inherits a fortune from his rich uncle in USA. Women start to throw themselves at him, people try to use him, everyone acts nicer to him while he is try to manage his new life....
King of the Doormen
Character: Janitor Seyit
Seyit, a resourceful doorman of a middle class apartment in Istanbul, finds himself in a struggle for power when the new superintendent decides to crack down on his slack attitude....
Bıçkın
Character: Ali / Kemal Sunal
Ali, who looks exactly like the famous actor Kemal Sunal, is in love with his neighbor Zehra. However, Zehra, who is a fan of Kemal Sunal, does not reciprocate Ali's love. Despite Ali's insistence, she rejects him. Ali will temporarily take Kemal Sunal's place in order to be with Zehra....
Bekçiler Kralı
Character: Bekçi Şaban Özgüneş
The story of a guard who revolts because of exploiting reeve and tradespeople. People start to think he has an uncle working in the ministry of the interior....
Boynu Bükük Küheylan
Character: İbrahim Küheylan
With his 2 wives Kuheylan started as a doorkeeper in an apartment after immigrating from small town to city. While Kuheylan was dreaming to be rich, his wives got impressed under city culture and joined their forses agains their husband....
My Dear Brother
Character: Yolcu
Two poor men try to find a television as a last wish for the terminally ill brother of one of them....
The Blue Bead
Character: Kaymakam Cafer
After being humiliated and kicked out from a music hall because they could not pay the bill, six ne'er-do-wells decide to kidnap the star performer Emel Sayın for revenge....
Çarıklı Milyoner
Character: Bayram
Hilmi Tok is a billionaire businessman. He dies one day while driving his own car. His real estate assets goes his son Bayram....
The King of the Street Cleaners
Character: Abdi Şakrak
Going through his daily routine in a stereotypical neighborhood, a street cleaner falls in love with a charwoman. Unfortunately for him, so does his superior officer....
Atla Gel Şaban
Character: Niyazi
Niyazi is a humble factory worker whose life is turned upside down when he wins the “altılı ganyan” (six-horse accumulator) lottery. Suddenly, everyone from neighbours to total strangers, claiming to be his long-lost relatives, crowds around him hoping for a share of his fortune. Thanks to his quick wit, Niyazi manages to outsmart these opportunists and keep his winnings....
100 Numaralı Adam
Character: Şaban
A poor young man chosen by a advertising company, and they made him a public hero to make him advertise poor quality products that no one buys....
Meraklı Köfteci
Character: Köfteci Zühtü
Zuhtu, a nosy hawker who sells meatballs, one night finds a young girl escaping from her cruel relatives. He intends to help the girl but this costs him too much....
Propaganda
Character: Mehdi
Based on a true story set in 1948, customs officer Mehti is faced with the duty of formally setting up the border between Turkey and Syria, dividing his hometown. He is unaware of the pain that will eminently unfold, as families, languages, cultures and lovers are both ripped apart and clash head on in a village once united....
Kanlı Nigar
Character: Abdi
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Fake Gangster
Character: Kemal
Kemal, unaware that his father is a mafia boss, sells cotton candy at train stations. After his father is killed, his inheritance is divided. Kemal begins visiting the establishments of Istanbul's most notorious thugs one by one to reclaim his father's inheritance, and gradually gains a reputation....
Katma Değer Şaban
Character: Şaban
Şaban returns to Istanbul from Germany to solve a fraud crime that was framed on his father. But the people who meet him at the airport see Şaban as a punk and think that he can't help them…...
The Chaos Class
Character: İnek Şaban
Lazy, uneducated students mostly coming from money, share a very close band. They live together in the dormitory of this private highschool, where they daily plan their latest pranks on teachers or the other classes. When a new and obviously strict headmaster arrives, the students naturally try to overthrow him. A comic war of nitwits follows....
From the Village to the City
Character: Saffet
After they find buried treasure, four hapless brothers from the countryside discover that changing their fortunes will take more than gold....
Hanzo
Character: Hanzo / Cabbar
Hanzo, who was lost as a baby and raised by bears in the wild forest, behaving like them, is captured one day by a group that comes to the village for excavation....
Nightingale
Character: Şaban Ballises
The comical story of Şaban, who came to Istanbul to earn his dowry and, by chance, became a famous folk singer known as Şaban Ballıses....
Sosyete Şaban
Character: Şaban Aga / Dilaver
Country bumpkin Şaban Ağa has long dreamed of winning the heart of Peri, the high-society belle he plans to marry, though she doesn’t even know he exists. Spurned when Peri agrees to wed him for his money then flees back to city life, Şaban reinvents himself as the sophisticated Dilaver Bey to exact his sweet revenge....
Gerzek Şaban
Character: Osman / Seyfi
People mistake a naive extra for his lookalike gangster and cause funny events....
Korkusuz Korkak
Character: Mülayim Sert
He is a civil servant in the bland state office. His whole life changes when his reports get mixed up in the hospital and he gets news that he's going to die very soon....
Şaban Pabucu Yarım
Character: Şaban
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Troublemaker Hüsnü
Character: Hüsnü
Hüsnü is a lovestruck young man determined to win the heart of his neighborhood’s beauty, Hüsniye, and enlists his friend’s dubious tactics to no avail. When a thug seizes the neighborhood deeds and forces everyone to flee, Hüsnü tries to become the local tough guy to save his community and impress Hüsniye, but his bravado draws the attention of a hired killer....
Tokatçı
Character: Osman
A tragicomedy dramatizing how an innocent villager is driven into the crime world only to collect enough cash to make his biggest dream come true: Return to his village home and marry the girl next door....
Oh Olsun
Character: Fazıl Haznedar, Ferit'in abisi
A tycoon tries to teach some life lessons to his three spoiled sons by making them work on the floor of his factory, where one of them falls in love....
Longing
Character: Yanık
The soft spot in her heart for her composer remains unfilled of a star performer, after she's given a red handkerchief as a farewell. She must make her final decision despite a hearing loss risking her promising career....
Salak Milyoner
Character: Saffet
The funny treasure hunt of 4 rural brothers in Istanbul, after the recent death of their father who left them a treasure map as heritage....
Yalancı Yarim
Character: Kemal
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Güllü Geliyor Güllü
Character: Kiralik Katil
Güllü and the goddess Taka Nuri come to Istanbul to avenge a bloodshed. Güllü is a Black Sea girl. Nasi is a rich young man who grew up in the same village as Güllü. Nuri is given a gun in his circumcision wedding. The accidental bullet hits a relative of Güllü and thus starts a blood feud....
Salako
Character: Salako
A man falls hopelessly in love with a village leader's daughter, who herself has feelings for an outlaw....
Sweet Talker
Character: Kemal
Tarik is the best scorer basketball player of his team and is very popular. One day he comes to a village with his team to do entreman. There, he met the village teacher, Emine. He loves her very much and they get married immediately. But, some days after he had to return to istanbul. He wants Emine to go to istanbul with him but she says that she can't leave the village and her students....
Windfall
Character: Mustafa
This is one of the tragicomic films of Kemal Sunal who is most "serious-comic" artist of the Turkish cinema. This film also reflects socio-economic and cultural life of the 70's-80's Turkiye. The film obviously talk to Turkish audience but who wonder that era of Turkiye can taste of it. The film underlines of love, friendship and -richness in the poorness- and also is a story about the people who prefers love, instead of money and fortune. The theme and narration may include some populist elemen...
Sakar Şakir
Character: Sakar Şakir
Shakir, who lives in Kayseri, has a great legacy from his uncle who died in Istanbul. His uncle sends a telegram to Kayseri and dies before seeing Shakir, but a relative who does not want to share the legacy begins to make plans to eliminate him....
İbo ile Güllüşah
Character: İbo
A poor villager who cannot marry the girl he loves because he cannot afford a bride-price, follows her to Istanbul. But he is unable to raise the money and appear in front of his father. Meanwhile, his friendship with a little girl he meets by chance complicates everything. Seeking attention from her family, the girl tells the young man to kidnap her for ransom. In this way, both she will test whether she is loved or not, and the poor boy will get the girl he loves and wants to marry thanks to t...
The Confused Groom
Character: Apti
While Serpil pretends to be a religious village girl to his rich uncle she gets cought at an erotic party. Her uncle sees what she actually is than he forces her to marry simpleton Apti or she and her family cannot inherit his fortune....
Zehir Hafiye
Character: Cemal
The story of a young man who loves crime fiction books, and the daugher of a mafia leader....
Zübük
Character: İbrahim Zübükzade
This is the story of the politician named Zübük. He gets expelled from the political party that he is a member of, due to corruption. The journalist Yaşar wants to make a news story about his case and investigates Zübük's doings. Yaşar gets baffled at the sly tricks Zübük played on his village people. In the end, he feels sorry about Zübük's present situation, however, as things happen he becomes aware that Zübük has been tricking him....
Avanak Apti
Character: Apdi
Apti is a simple minded village man and he believes what is happening around him by chance is actually his doing. He becomes famous by beating a feared man and everyone starts to respect him than he meets a singer and an action-love story starts....
İnek Şaban
Character: Kaleci Bülent / İnek Şaban
A poor grocery owner becomes a popular goalkeeper....
Trickster
Character: Rıfkı
Rıfkı, who lives in Germany, returns to his village, which he left years ago, to sell the properties inherited from his late father. A few coincidences that occur upon his arrival in the village lead to his name being associated with the 'Saint' title....
The Postman
Character: Adem
Sevtap and Adem, the postman in the neighborhood, are in love with each other. Sevtap remained single until the age of 30 because no one liked her, so she is still a virgin and has settled for Adem. However, there is someone who opposes this love, her older brother Latif, who was raised in German culture but can be described as a complete fool. One day, Sevtap and Adem send a telegram from Sevtap's father's mouth to convince him to accept the situation. After this telegram, wedding preparations ...
Umudumuz Şaban
Character: Ringo Şaban
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Dokunmayın Şabanıma
Character: Şaban
Şaban is a minibus driver who is unsuccessful with women, while Ökkeş is a complete womanizer. Ökkeş and Şaban, two old army buddies, cross paths one day in prison. Ökkeş, who is being forced by his father to marry, asks Şaban to take his place, and they switch roles. However, when both of them fall in love with the daughter of the house they go to, things get complicated. The girl they are in love with has switched places with the housekeeper......
Şaban, a Man from the Middle Class
Character: Şaban
Şaban, who works as a clerk in a factory, is madly in love with Bahar, who works as a secretary in the same factory and attends university thanks to the financial support of the famous oil tycoon Adnan Bıçakçı. However, Bahar has her eye on the famous athlete Erkan. After Adnan Bıçakçı reveals that Bahar is his granddaughter, she is kidnapped by gangsters. However, the only person who tries to rescue her is not her boyfriend Erkan, but Orta Direk Şaban....
Kiracı
Character: Kerim
Kerim lives with his family in a rent house for years. One day his landlord tells him to look for another house or raise the rent money.He finds a house by the help of Sühandan whom he works together and in love....
Stubborn
Character: Bayram
While the dam project will be expropriated, Yellow poplar and Long poplar villages are included in the expropriation. Although this is supposed to protect the confidentiality, a member of the commission sells this information to a holding company and someone in that holding company sells what they heard to another holding company....
The Handsome
Character: Selim
Selim is a paperboy who delivers the morning papers with his truck. He buys a walkie talkie to find find a friend. His codename is "The Handsome". After a while he meets the girl and they start a relationship. It is hard for them to get married....
Davacı
Character: Yunus
It is a comedy of stubborn people who initiate a judicial process which would last 7 years because some sheep ate a few cabbages....
En Büyük Şaban
Character: Şaban
A good man trys to help a blind girl to see again but he doesn't have enough money for the operation....
Japon İşi
Character: Veysel
Veysel loves a singer named Basak. But she doesn’t love him back. One day Veysel saves the life of a Japanese tourist. Later, the tourist sends a gift to Veysel from Japan. The gift is a robot that looks exactly like the singer he loves, Basak....
Şendul Şaban
Character: Şaban
She works as a factory worker alongside Şaban Ali. One day, they are fired for asking their boss for a raise. They search for work for a long time but cannot find any. Necla tells Şaban that it is easier for women to find work, and the couple make a bet. The next day, Necla starts working as a secretary. The roles at home change. Necla becomes the man of the house, and Şaban becomes the woman of the house. However, the couple is unhappy because of Necla's long working hours....
Sevimli Hırsız
Character: Metin Mertoğlu
Metin Mertoğlu is the son of a wealthy family. He falls in love with Selma. To win her over, he pretends to be a thief and gets himself into trouble....
Polizei
Character: Ali Ekber
A movie about the lifestyles of Turkish people who are living in Germany....
Tarzan Rıfkı
Character: Tarzan Rıfkı
A story about a poor and guilt guy who is being used by mafia for dirty work....
Henpecked
Character: Kamil
Father of two kids who looks exactly like a rowdy takes advantage of this and go into different and funny events....
Şabaniye
Character: Şaban/Şabaniye
A poet, who works as a waiter to make ends meet, postures as a female singer to end a blood feud between two families....
Uyanık Gazeteci
Character: Ali
A comedy of a journalist who feigns war news and makes his agency strand....
İyi Aile Çocuğu
Character: Kemal / Cemal
Identical twin brothers live separate lives for years without seeing each other. They have grown up in very different circumstances. One is a gangster who spreads terror around him, while the other is a modest bank clerk....
Doktor Civanım
Character: Kemal
Kemal writes a letter to his mother telling her that he is a doctor. His mother is so happy that she spreads the news throughout the village. When the girls in the village learn that Kemal is returning to the village, they do everything they can to win him over. However, Kemal falls in love with Sümbül, the daughter of Ruşen Ağa. The discovery that Kemal is not a doctor will put this love in jeopardy....
Expat Şaban
Character: Şaban Yıldız
Şaban is a poor man. In Germany, where Şaban went as a worker, tragicomic events happen....
The Top Scorer
Character: Sait Sarıoğlu
Sait, who is in love with Sevim, a football enthusiast, starts playing football to catch her attention. When Sevim mocks him, Sait gets angry and decides to become a football player....
Koltuk Belası
Character: Zühtü
Political satire comedy featuring the memories of a red leather chair. He is aware that no matter who the next governor will be, more corrupted will the system get. But only until the last governor who decides to set him on fire....
Keriz
Character: Zülfü
Zülfü and Zülfiye get married. However, Abbas, Zülfü's uncle, who is trying to take over Zülfü's property, tries to separate the couple. Abbas spreads rumors about Zülfiye. He incites Zülfü to kill his wife. Eventually, Zülfiye secretly moves to Istanbul with her family. Zülfü goes to Istanbul to kill Zülfiye, influenced by his uncle's persuasion. However, when a mine is discovered on Zülfiye's father's land, all plans will change....
Yoksul
Character: Yoksul
A kind-hearted tea maker works in a bustling commercial inn, where his good nature makes him an easy target. The business owner takes advantage of his generosity, while the woman he loves manipulates him for money, playing on his trust. As he faces these challenges, his simple routine slowly begins to shift, leading to unexpected turns that force him to rethink his place in the world....
Deli Deli Küpeli
Character: Deli Kaymakam
Two schizophrenic patients escape from a mental asylum supposing they were mistakenly quarantined. When they arrive at a country village, the villagers assume one is a sheriff and the other is a local magistrate....
Queer World
Character: Mehmet
Living in an Ankara shantytown, Mehmet plays the clarinet at a nightclub to support his family. When their home is sold to a contractor by his brother-in-law, the gap between Mehmet’s dreams and reality significantly grows....
Varyemez
Character: Ragıp Elibol
Ragıp Elibol is a wealthy and stingy businessman. He separated from Melek, the mother of his children, and married Dürdane. His son Cengiz is studying at university, while his daughter Zeliha is at home waiting for a husband. One day, Ragıp is hit by a car while driving. Four young people, who have many things they want to do but cannot afford, kidnap Ragıp, thinking he can provide them with the means to do so. They claim to be a secret organization and demand a ransom. His wife Dürdane informs ...
Talih Kuşu
Character: Osman Abalı
Osman, who lives a poor life with his wife, children, and mother-in-law, earns his living as a porter. His debts to the local shopkeepers and his landlord have piled up like a mountain. To make matters worse, he is constantly belittled by his wife Leman and mother-in-law! One day, the neighborhood ticket seller Şakir forces him to buy a lottery ticket. Osman hides the ticket somewhere but forgets where he put it. When Osman learns that the jackpot has been won by one of the tickets sold by Şakir...
The Laughing Man
Character: Yusuf Şaplak
Yusuf Şaplak is a seemingly ordinary man who has a condition where he can't stop laughing. An idealist young doctor decides to cure him....
The Teacher
Character: Hüsnü Öğretmen
Husnu has got issues and inabilities about the complex and expensive metropolitan life who was a successful teacher in his little town and got a promotion and appointment to Istanbul....
Abuk Sabuk Bir Film
Character: Ademoğlu Ali
A misunderstood villager seeks remedy to protect his late father's settlement in post-modern times, when all of his wicked and proud neighbors lay a snare under each other. The villager soon finds himself trapped in a sociopathic crisis....
Poor
Character: Kemal
Kemal is a young man who does all kinds of work to make ends meet and is passionate about football. The young man who makes his living from the hardest, one day finds a baby abandoned on the side of the road. Kemal, who adopted the orphaned baby, raises and takes care of the girl like the baby's father....
Balalayka
Character: Kemal Sunal (anısına)
On a misty morning, an old bus leaves Batum to go to Istanbul. As the bus stops at various places on the way, Russian women of all ages and professions, each with a unique tale, board. In this bus full of women, there are three Turkish men. Three brothers who have come together after many years to carry their father's last wish....