Kemal Sunal
Birthday: 1944-11-11
Place of Birth: İstanbul, Türkiye
Biography: Kemal Sunal (11 November 1944 – 3 July 2000) was a Turkish actor and comedian. With Hababam Sınıfı, Kapıcılar Kralı and Davaro, Sunal gained large popularity amongst Turkish cinema goers and was famed for his character "Şaban", a role he frequently played. Kemal Sunal graduated from Vefa Lisesi (Vefa High School). In his early ages, he started pursuing what was to become a long and successful acting career in minor roles in various theatres. For a brief period, he worked in the Kenterler Theatre and debuted in the play Zoraki Tabip. He was later transferred to the Devekuşu Kabare Theatre, where he performed his acting. He was recognized as a real talent, and started receiving offers for movies with larger budgets and a more famous cast. His first bigger role was in the film "Tatlı Dillim" directed by Ertem Eğilmez. In a matter of years, Sunal co-starred alongside Halit Akçatepe, Şener Şen and Münir Özkul. Perhaps the most famous of all his parts was when he played in Hababam Sınıfı (The Outrageous Class) and was known by the name of "Şaban", but most of his classmates just called him İnek (nerd) Şaban. İnek Şaban was constantly bullied and humiliated by his friends, but this never kept him from thinking the unthinkable, like digging a tunnel to escape school grounds (which later, turned out to lead to the vice-principal's office) or smoking in the school attic. The character was so pure and so fixed in the memories of the Turkish people, it was never replaced by another actor in the recent re-shootings of Hababam Sınıfı, most probably as a sign of respect to Sunal.
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The Chaos Class Is on Vacation
Lazy, uneducated male students mostly coming from money, share a very close band. They live together...
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The Foster Brothers
Saban, Ramazan and Bayram are sailors in an Ottoman Navy and Hüsamettin is their commander. Hüsamett...
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The Chaos Class Is Waking Up
A sincere and hardworking student joins the Chaos Class, but acceptance seems unlikely when he becom...
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The Chaos Class Failed the Class
A young and beautiful female teacher starts working in an all boys high school....
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Saban, Son of Saban
Clumsy soldiers Şaban and Ramazan fall for a singer-dancer and accidentally become secret policemen ...
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Davaro
Memo returns from Germany to get married with his love but his fathers killer Sulo is being released...
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Feyzo, The Polite One
To bid for his beloved's hand in marriage, poor villager Feyzo must come up with an enormous dowry t...
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Tosun Pasha
Late 19th century in Alexandria. Two traditionally rival Turkish families, "Seferoglu"s and "Telliog...
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Köşeyi Dönen Adam
Adem is working as a waiter and he gets fired at that moment he inherits a fortune from his rich unc...
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King of the Doormen
Seyit, a resourceful doorman of a middle class apartment in Istanbul, finds himself in a struggle fo...
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Bekçiler Kralı
The story of a guard who revolts because of exploiting reeve and tradespeople. People start to think...
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Bıçkın
Ali, who looks exactly like the famous actor Kemal Sunal, is in love with his neighbor Zehra. Howeve...
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Boynu Bükük Küheylan
With his 2 wives Kuheylan started as a doorkeeper in an apartment after immigrating from small town ...
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My Dear Brother
Two poor men try to find a television as a last wish for the terminally ill brother of one of them....
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The Blue Bead
After being humiliated and kicked out from a music hall because they could not pay the bill, six ne'...
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Çarıklı Milyoner
Hilmi Tok is a billionaire businessman. He dies one day while driving his own car. His real estate a...
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The King of the Street Cleaners
Going through his daily routine in a stereotypical neighborhood, a street cleaner falls in love with...
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100 Numaralı Adam
A poor young man chosen by a advertising company, and they made him a public hero to make him advert...
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Atla Gel Şaban
Niyazi is a humble factory worker whose life is turned upside down when he wins the “altılı ganyan” ...
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Meraklı Köfteci
Zuhtu, a nosy hawker who sells meatballs, one night finds a young girl escaping from her cruel relat...
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Propaganda
Based on a true story set in 1948, customs officer Mehti is faced with the duty of formally setting ...
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Katma Değer Şaban
Şaban returns to Istanbul from Germany to solve a fraud crime that was framed on his father. But the...
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Fake Gangster
Kemal, unaware that his father is a mafia boss, sells cotton candy at train stations. After his fath...
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The Chaos Class
Lazy, uneducated students mostly coming from money, share a very close band. They live together in t...
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From the Village to the City
After they find buried treasure, four hapless brothers from the countryside discover that changing t...
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Hanzo
Hanzo, who was lost as a baby and raised by bears in the wild forest, behaving like them, is capture...
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Korkusuz Korkak
He is a civil servant in the bland state office. His whole life changes when his reports get mixed u...
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Nightingale
The comical story of Şaban, who came to Istanbul to earn his dowry and, by chance, became a famous f...
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Gerzek Şaban
People mistake a naive extra for his lookalike gangster and cause funny events....
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Sosyete Şaban
Country bumpkin Şaban Ağa has long dreamed of winning the heart of Peri, the high-society belle he p...
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Tokatçı
A tragicomedy dramatizing how an innocent villager is driven into the crime world only to collect en...
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Troublemaker Hüsnü
Hüsnü is a lovestruck young man determined to win the heart of his neighborhood’s beauty, Hüsniye, a...
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Sweet Talker
Ferit is a basketball player from Istanbul. One day, at a camp he attends, he meets Emine, a village...
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Oh Olsun
A tycoon tries to teach some life lessons to his three spoiled sons by making them work on the floor...
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Güllü Geliyor Güllü
Güllü and the goddess Taka Nuri come to Istanbul to avenge a bloodshed. Güllü is a Black Sea girl. N...
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Salak Milyoner
The funny treasure hunt of 4 rural brothers in Istanbul, after the recent death of their father who ...
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Longing
The soft spot in her heart for her composer remains unfilled of a star performer, after she's given ...
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Salako
A man falls hopelessly in love with a village leader's daughter, who herself has feelings for an out...
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Windfall
This is one of the tragicomic films of Kemal Sunal who is most "serious-comic" artist of the Turkish...
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The Confused Groom
While Serpil pretends to be a religious village girl to his rich uncle she gets cought at an erotic ...
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Sakar Şakir
Shakir, who lives in Kayseri, has a great legacy from his uncle who died in Istanbul. His uncle send...
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İbo ile Güllüşah
A poor villager who cannot marry the girl he loves because he cannot afford a bride-price, follows h...
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Zübük
This is the story of the politician named Zübük. He gets expelled from the political party that he i...
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Zehir Hafiye
The story of a young man who loves crime fiction books, and the daugher of a mafia leader....
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Avanak Apti
Apti is a simple minded village man and he believes what is happening around him by chance is actual...
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Trickster
Rıfkı, who lives in Germany, returns to his village, which he left years ago, to sell the properties...
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The Postman
Sevtap and Adem, the postman in the neighborhood, are in love with each other. Sevtap remained singl...
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Dokunmayın Şabanıma
Şaban is a minibus driver who is unsuccessful with women, while Ökkeş is a complete womanizer. Ökkeş...
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Şaban, a Man from the Middle Class
Şaban, who works as a clerk in a factory, is madly in love with Bahar, who works as a secretary in t...
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Stubborn
While the dam project will be expropriated, Yellow poplar and Long poplar villages are included in t...
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Kiracı
Kerim lives with his family in a rent house for years. One day his landlord tells him to look for an...
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The Handsome
Selim is a paperboy who delivers the morning papers with his truck. He buys a walkie talkie to find ...
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Davacı
It is a comedy of stubborn people who initiate a judicial process which would last 7 years because s...
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En Büyük Şaban
A good man trys to help a blind girl to see again but he doesn't have enough money for the operation...
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Japon İşi
Veysel loves a singer named Basak. But she doesn’t love him back. One day Veysel saves the life of a...
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Şendul Şaban
She works as a factory worker alongside Şaban Ali. One day, they are fired for asking their boss for...
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Sevimli Hırsız
Metin Mertoğlu is the son of a wealthy family. He falls in love with Selma. To win her over, he pret...
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Henpecked
Father of two kids who looks exactly like a rowdy takes advantage of this and go into different and ...
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Tarzan Rıfkı
A story about a poor and guilt guy who is being used by mafia for dirty work....
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Şabaniye
A poet, who works as a waiter to make ends meet, postures as a female singer to end a blood feud bet...
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İyi Aile Çocuğu
Identical twin brothers live separate lives for years without seeing each other. They have grown up ...
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Uyanık Gazeteci
A comedy of a journalist who feigns war news and makes his agency strand....
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Doktor Civanım
Kemal writes a letter to his mother telling her that he is a doctor. His mother is so happy that she...
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Expat Şaban
Şaban is a poor man. In Germany, where Şaban went as a worker, tragicomic events happen....
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Deli Deli Küpeli
Two schizophrenic patients escape from a mental asylum supposing they were mistakenly quarantined. W...
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Queer World
Living in an Ankara shantytown, Mehmet plays the clarinet at a nightclub to support his family. When...
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The Top Scorer
Sait, who is in love with Sevim, a football enthusiast, starts playing football to catch her attenti...
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Keriz
Zülfü and Zülfiye get married. However, Abbas, Zülfü's uncle, who is trying to take over Zülfü's pro...
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Koltuk Belası
Political satire comedy featuring the memories of a red leather chair. He is aware that no matter wh...
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Yoksul
A kind-hearted tea maker works in a bustling commercial inn, where his good nature makes him an easy...
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Varyemez
Ragıp Elibol is a wealthy and stingy businessman. He separated from Melek, the mother of his childre...
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Talih Kuşu
Osman, who lives a poor life with his wife, children, and mother-in-law, earns his living as a porte...
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The Laughing Man
Yusuf Şaplak is a seemingly ordinary man who has a condition where he can't stop laughing. An ideali...
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The Teacher
Husnu has got issues and inabilities about the complex and expensive metropolitan life who was a suc...
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Abuk Sabuk Bir Film
A misunderstood villager seeks remedy to protect his late father's settlement in post-modern times, ...
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Poor
Kemal is a young man who does all kinds of work to make ends meet and is passionate about football. ...
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Balalayka
On a misty morning, an old bus leaves Batum to go to Istanbul. As the bus stops at various places on...
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