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Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 18, 1961
Died
September 3, 2020
Place of Birth
Silifke, Mersin, Turkey
Birol Ünel
1.8 Popularity
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Birol Ünel (born 18 August 1961) was a Turkish-German actor who played in German and Turkish films, television, and theatrical productions. His name, "Birol", means "unique" in Turkish. Ünel was born in Mersin in southern Turkey. In 1968, his family moved to Brinkum near Bremen in Germany. He studied acting at Hanover Conservatory. Ünel began as a theatre actor at the Berliner Tacheles where he played the lead and also directed the play "Caligula". Ünel made his film debut in 1988's The Passenger. He played a private detective in the film Dealer which he followed up with a role in Fatih Akın's Im Juli. Birol then acted in the award winning Gegen die Wand as Cahit Tomruk. He won the German film prize for best actor for this role. His latest films have been Transylvania, Seven Heroes and Soul Kitchen. Ünel also acted in the hit Turkish film Hırsız var! in 2005. Description above from the Wikipedia article Birol Ünel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
Hürkuş: Göklerdeki Kahraman
as İvan
2018
4.2
Falling
as Aslan
2016
6.0
Plan B
as Hausmeister
2016
6.5
Back to nothing
as Kongo
2016
0.0
I'm Off Then
as Americo
2015
6.2
Netekim Karakolu
2015
0.0
Looking for Eimish
as Lupô
2012
5.3
Sleepless Night
as Yilmaz
2011
5.9
🎬
The Cricket
as Worker
2011
0.0
Soul Kitchen
as Shayn Weiss
2009
6.9
The Moon and Other Lovers
as Gansar
2008
5.0
Valerie
as Jaro
2007
4.9
The Unpolished
as Axel
2007
5.8
House of the Sleeping Beauties
as Herr Gold
2006
5.4
Transylvania
as Tchangalo
2006
5.4
🎬
KRIMI.DE
as Herr Weiß
2005
0.0
Robbery Alla Turca
as Pamir
2005
4.6
Kalbin Zamanı
as Demir
2004
8.3
German Dream
as Birol Ünel
2004
0.0
Head-On
as Cahit Tomruk
2004
7.5
🎬
Leute am Donnerstag
as himself
2004
0.0
🎬
Not a Lovestory
as Guru
2004
0.0
King of Thieves
as Birol
2003
5.8
🎬
Der gestohlene Mond
as Nick
2003
0.0
Blackberry
as Sylvester
2002
3.8
My Mother
as Hasan
2002
4.0
🎬
Inspektor Rolle
as Tschokan Bischkek
2002
0.0
Enemy at the Gates
as Politruk
2001
7.4
🎬
Planet Alex
as Milan
2001
0.0
Der Puma - Kämpfer mit Herz
as Bernd Schlegel
2000
8.0
In July
as Club Doyen
2000
7.2
🎬
Tour Abroad
as Osman
2000
0.0
🎬
Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht
as Günther
1999
6.0
🎬
Unknown Friend
as Moritz
1999
1.0
Dealer
as Erdal
1999
4.9
Der Clown
as Cosmo Nunnari
1998
7.3
Frankfurt Millennium
as Mustafa
1998
8.0
Tierarzt Dr. Engel
as Siggi Kirchlechner
1998
0.0
Dead Pool
as Zohair Y. Akache aka 'Captain Mahmoud'
1997
1.0
Buddies - Leben auf der Überholspur
1997
4.3
🎬
Friedemann Brix - Eine Schwäche für Mord
as Dieter Lohmann
1996
0.0
🎬
Landgang für Ringo
as Yusuf
1996
5.0
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
as Harkan Bülent
1996
6.6
Balko
as Tobias Wölke
1995
5.8
Balko
as Achim Koch
1995
5.8
Mau Mau
as Schulte
1992
4.4
A Wopbobaloobop a Lopbamboom
1990
6.7
The Passenger – Welcome to Germany
1988
5.7
Der Fahnder
as Nick Peters
1984
6.9
Der Fahnder
as Erol
1984
6.9
A Case For Two
as Klaus
1981
5.3
Auf Achse
as Kemal
1980
6.4
Scene of the Crime
as Houari Al'Bakr
1970
6.1
Scene of the Crime
as Gürkan Agban
1970
6.1
Scene of the Crime
as Rico Baumann
1970
6.1
Scene of the Crime
as Henkel
1970
6.1
🎬
German Film Award
as Self
1951
6.0
North Pole
N/A
0.0