Turhan Bey
Birthday: 1922-03-30
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
Biography: Turhan Bey (born Turhan Gilbert Selahattin Sahultavy; 30 March 1922 – 30 September 2012) was an Austrian-born actor of Turkish and Czech Jewish origin. Turhan was active in Hollywood from 1941 to 1953. He was dubbed "The Turkish Delight" by his fans. After his return to Austria, he pursued careers as a photographer and stage director. Returning to Hollywood after a 40-year hiatus, he made several guest appearances in 1990s television series including SeaQuest DSV, Murder, She Wrote and Babylon 5 as well as a number of films. After retiring he appeared in a number of documentaries, including a German-language documentary on his life.
Movies
Possessed by the Night
A horror writer buys an odd looking mutant embryo creature, pickled in a jar, from a shop in Chinato...
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The Mummy's Tomb
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all...
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Crazy House
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie....
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The Amazing Mr. X
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul c...
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Arabian Nights
Two half brothers battle each other for the power of the throne and the love of sensual, gorgeous da...
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Orphaned as a young child and adopted by a band of notorious thieves, now-grown Ali Baba sets out to...
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The Gay Falcon
Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is...
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Footsteps in the Dark
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police att...
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The Climax
Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano wh...
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Shadows on the Stairs
Occupants of a London boarding house become suspects as a string of murders are discovered....
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Parole, Inc.
A federal agent's life is in danger when he's exposed while investigating a parole scheme....
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Dead End Kids Go To War
The Dead End Kids join the war effort in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior ...
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The Mad Ghoul
A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning...
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Hollywood Chinese
Hollywood Chinese is a captivating look at cinema history through the lens of the Chinese American e...
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The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey
Joan Crawford's close-up in Humoresque. Michelangelo's David and Boticelli's "Birth of Venus". Stend...
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Dragon Seed
Life in a small Chinese village is turned upside down when the Japanese invade it. A heroic young Ch...
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Destination Unknown
Foreign spies and police pursue an attractive Dutch spy throughout Peking....
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Sudan
A desert pickpocket, his sidekick, and an escaped slave help an incognito queen in danger....
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Night in Paradise
Aesop of fable fame poses as an old man and woos away a princess who wants a king for his gold....
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Drums of the Congo
A safari sets out to find a meteorite that fell in the African jungle....
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White Savage
A native boy plays Cupid for a shark fisherman and a South Sea Islands princess....
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Danger in the Pacific
Scientist-explorer David Lynd leaves wealthy bride-to-be June Claymore at the altar to join photogra...
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Adventures of Casanova
Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been...
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The Skateboard Kid II
Take a roller coaster ride full of high octane adventure as 12 year old Sammy takes to the skies. Wi...
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Song of India
Jungle adventure drama about a young man and his wild animal friends attempting to thwart a governme...
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Prisoners of the Casbah
A low-born thief loves a Moroccan Princess. She must marry to escape death at the hands of her enemi...
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Frisco Sal
Sal comes to the Barbary Coast from New England to find out who murdered her brother. She gets a job...
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Out of the Blue
Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married...
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Raiders of the Desert
Two American leave a ship where they had stowed away, in a Middle Eastern port and wind up in the fi...
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Burma Convoy
A truck convoy traveling the Burma Road is menaced by a group of smugglers....
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Bowery to Broadway
Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway, but when one of them suddenly ...
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Unseen Enemy
The Unseen Enemy in this wartime meller is Nick (Leo Carrillo), the outwardly effusive manager of a ...
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Bombay Clipper
Someone has absconded with $4,000,000 worth of diamonds, and that someone may very well be a passeng...
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Junior G-Men of the Air
A group of street kids battle a terrorist gang led by a Japanese spy....
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Virtual Combat
In Year 2025 Two Nevada border officers, Dave Quarry and John, amuse themselves off duty by honing t...
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The Falcon Takes Over
While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector ...
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The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret...
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Universal Horror
A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the...
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Johnny Walker
A washed up Hollywood director is trapped in a remote castle by his own fears until the arrival of a...
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Twenty Years After
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then ...
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Captive Wild Woman
An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a...
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The Opera Ghost: A Phantom Unmasked
A documentary from Universal about their Phantom of the Opera movies....
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Healer
Old-aged and ailing Russian immigrant, Igor Vostovich, affects the lives of all those he meets in a ...
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Follow the Boys
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star...
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