Bülent Kayabaş

Born

18 June 1945

Place of birth

Eskişehir

Died

19 April 2017 (aged 71)

On Avşar Film

appeared in 1 series

Osman Bülent Kayabaş was born on 18 June 1945 in Eskişehir, the only son of a father who worked as a civil servant on the railways. In his final year at the Academy of Commercial and Economic Sciences, he left school to pursue theater. After amateur work, he took the stage professionally in 1961 at the Eskişehir Municipal Theater, served for a time at the Ankara State Theater, and came to Istanbul in 1967 for the play Şarkıcı Kız.

During a stage career of more than half a century, he performed with many companies, notably Üç Maymun Kabare and the theaters of Ferhan Şensoy and Ali Poyrazoğlu. He moved into cinema in 1970 with the film Kara Leke; among more than 150 films, his roles as İri Nuri in Zübük and Sülo in Devlet Kuşu stand out. His death scene in the film Karateci Kız was widely shared on the internet years later. On television he also appeared in the series Yalancı Yarim and Fırıldak Ailesi, and he voiced a character in the Winnie the Pooh cartoon for fourteen years.

In 1981 he won the Avni Dilligil Best Actor Award, and in 2010 the İsmail Dümbüllü Award for his role in the play Buzlar Çözülmeden; he received an honorary award at the Altın Koza Film Festival. He died in Istanbul on 19 April 2017.

Kayabaş played Dişçi Necati in Avşar Film's 2003 series Sultan Makamı.