Engin Çağlar
Born: 1940-08-28 in İstanbul, Türkiye
Died: 2025-11-01
Known For: Acting
Biography
Engin Çağlar (28 August 1940 – 1 November 2025), was a Turkish film actor. His mother was born in Skopje. His father came from a family that had migrated to Istanbul from a small town on the coast of the Sea of Azov. His father owned a factory that manufactured industrial materials. He attended Robert College for secondary school. In 1958, he played football for a short time at Galatasaray. He studied at university in Germany. He was conscripted into the military in 1965. While serving as a sailor for two years, he was even stationed in Cyprus. After his discharge, he entered a competition run by Ses magazine and came second after Uğur Güçlü. That same year, names such as Kadir İnanır, Sümer Tilmaç, Demir Karahan, and Altan Bozkurt also participated in the competition. He began his film career in 1968 with Bilge Olgaç's film Öksüz. In 1969, he gained recognition by starring alongside Hülya Koçyiğit in the film Kınalı Yapıncak, directed by Orhan Aksoy. After signing with Hulki Saner, she appeared in films directed by Metin Erksan and left cinema in 1974. She has appeared in a few films since then but has not fully returned to cinema. In 2016, she was elected chair of the board of directors of the FİLMSAN Foundation.
Filmography
2008
- Kırmızı Işık as Ahmet
2007
- Hicran Sokağı as Adil
2003
1997
1984
- Şaşkın Gelin as Orhan
1983
- İlişki as Murat
1974
1973
- Bir Garip Yolcu
- Dağdan İnme
- İntizar as Kemal
- Sen Alınyazımsın as Ali
1972
- Süreyya as Kemal
- Rüyalar Gerçek Olsa as Orhan
- Karmen
- Damdaki Kemancı
1971
- Makber
- Feride as Kemal
- Beyaz Kelebekler as Murat
- Afacan the Little Tramp
1970
- Afacan
- Yaban Gülü as Celil
- Hippi Perihan as Orhan
1969
- Sad Love as Selim
- They Call Me Fosforlu
- Kınalı Yapıncak as Fikret Kınay
- Is It My Fault? as Haluk
- Yaşamak Ne Güzel Şey as Özcan Çağlar
1968
- The Jail Bride
- Öksüz as Ali