Yılmaz Güney
Born: 1937-04-01 in Adana, Turkey
Died: 1984-09-09
Known For: Directing
Biography
Yılmaz Güney was a Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist, and actor. He quickly rose to prominence in the Turkish film industry. Many of his works were devoted to the plight of ordinary, working class people in Turkey. Güney won the Palme d'Or with the film 'Yol' he co-produced with Şerif Gören at the Cannes Film Festival in 1982. He was at constant odds with the Turkish government because of his portrayals of Kurdish culture, people and language in his movies.
Filmography
2017
- The Legend of the Ugly King as Self (archive footage)
2016
- Ballad of Exiles: Yılmaz Güney as Self (archive footage)
2014
- Yilmaz Guney: Rebel with a Cause as Self (archive footage)
1996
1987
- We Called Him the Ugly King as Self (archive footage)
- Yilmaz Guney: His Life, His Films as Self (archive footage)
1983
- The Wall ... (Director)
- Autour du mur as Self
1982
- The Road ... (Co-Producer)
1980
- The Enemy ... (Writer)
1975
- İzin ... (Writer)
- The Poor as Abuzer
- Certainly One Day ... (Writer)
- İnce Memed Vuruldu
1974
- Spécial cinéma as Self
- Friend as Azem
- Anxiety ... (Writer)
1972
- Sahtekar as Bülent Akif
1971
- The Father as Cemal
- Pain as Çiçek Ali
- Fugitives as Osman
- The Warning as Doktor
- Sezercik Yavrum Benim as Self (Konuk Oyuncu)
- The Hopeless Ones as Firat
- The Profiteers as Cesi
- Silah ve Namus as İlyas
- Tomorrow is The Last Day as Kara Çocuk
- Çirkin ve Cesur
1970
- Hope as Cabbar
- Live Target as Asim Mavzer
- Sevgili Muhafızım as Mehmet Silvan
- Zeyno as Murat
- Şeytan Kayaları as Ali
- Yedi Belalılar as Banos
- Son Kızgın Adam
- Private Osman as Piyade Osman
1969
- Altın Koza as Self - Winner
- The Hungry Wolves as Serçe Memet
- Bin Defa Ölürüm as Rıfat
- An Ugly Man as Bino
- Kan Su Gibi Akacak as Ali
- Çifte Tabancalı Kabadayı as Rıfat
- Güney Ölüm Saçıyor as Güney
- Belanın Yedi Türlüsü as Zaza Sehmuz
1968
- Kargacı Halil as Halil
- Azrail Benim as Büyük Örfi
- Aslan Bey as Aslan Bey
- Nuri the Flea as Pire Nuri
- Öldürmek Hakkımdır
- Beyaz Atlı’nın Dönüşü
- Bride of the Earth as Seyyit
- Beyoğlu Canavarı as Kadir
1967
- Kurbanlık Katil as Mustafa
- Kozanoğlu as Kozanoğlu Hüseyin
- Kuduz Recep as Kuduz Recep
- Banus, the Horse Thief
- Red River, Black Sheep as Ali Haydar
- Balatlı Arif as Arif
- İnce Cumali as Cumali
- Eşkıya Celladı as Kerim / Satılmış / Durali
- Şeytanın Oğlu
- Bullets Won't Touch Me as Yadigar
- Çirkin Kral Affetmez as Yusuf Dağcı
- My Name Is Kerim
- Büyük Cellatlar as Samil
1966
- Law of the Border as Hıdır
- Kovboy Ali as Kovboy Ali
- Silahların Kanunu as Metin Demir
- Eşrefpaşalı as Kudret
- Ve Silahlara Veda as Hikmet
- Kibar Haydut as Ali
- Horse, Woman and Gun as Yusufcuk
- The Ugly King as Çirkin Kral
- Yiğit Yaralı Olur as Yusuf
1965
- Konyakçı as Konyakçı
- Kasımpaşalı Recep as Recep
- Tehlikeli Adam
- Sayılı Kabadayılar as Osman
- Beyaz Atlı Adam as Beyaz Atlı Adam
- Krallar Kralı as Murat
- Üçünüzü de mıhlarım as Yılmaz
- Kan Gövdeyi Götürdü as Metin
- Sokakta Kan Vardı as Turgut
- Dağların Oğlu as Ahmet
- Kahreden Kurşun as Metin
- I Live When I Die
- Gönül Kuşu
- Torpido Yılmaz as Yilmaz
1964
- Mor Defter as Suphi
- Kamalı Zeybek as Kamali Zeybek
- Prangasız Mahkumlar as Rıfat
- Kocaoğlan: Aşk Budalası as Kemal
- Zımba Gibi Delikanlı as Yılmaz
- Kara Şahin as Sahin
- Ten Fearless Men as Konyakçı
1963
- Both Were Brave as Ali Duran
1962
- Ölüme Yalnız Gidilir ... (Scenario Writer)
1961
- Yaban Gülü ... (Writer)
- Tatlı Bela as Erdoğan
1960
- Dolandırıcılar Şahı as Benzinci Genç
- The Death Curtain ... (Assistant Director)
- Suçlu ... (Screenplay)
1959
- Karacaoğlan'ın Kara Sevdası ... (Screenplay)
- Tütün Zamanı as Cemal
- The Fallow Deer as Halil