Çetin Tekindor

Born

16 July 1945 (aged 81)

Place of birth

Sivas

On Avşar Film

appeared in 3 movies

Çetin Tekindor was born on 16 July 1945 in Sivas. He graduated from the Ankara State Conservatory in 1970 and began his theater career with the play IV. Murat. He taught stage and diction classes at the Hacettepe University State Conservatory and then, until 1998, in the Theater Department of Bilkent University.

He first made his name known to wide audiences in the mid-1970s by dubbing the police chief played by Rock Hudson in the series McMillan ve Karısı, shown on TRT. With Küçük Ağa, directed by Yücel Çakmaklı, he became one of the well-known faces of television; he entered cinema with Başar Sabuncu's film Kaçamak, in the lead role opposite Müjde Ar.

In 1999 he brought to life the character Sinan, nicknamed Kral, in the series Yılan Hikayesi; he continued his screen work in the series Üzgünüm Leyla, Bir İstanbul Masalı and Asi, taking the characters Ömer Arhan and İhsan Kozcuoğlu in the last two. For his role in the film Karşılaşma he was named best actor at the Ankara Film Festival in 2003. In later years he played Nazif Kara in Karadayı, Celal Duman in İçerde and Halis Korhan in Yalı Çapkını; in cinema he appeared in the films Av Mevsimi and Ayla.

Tekindor played Hüseyin in Babam ve Oğlum, Zekeriya in Ulak and Haluk in Hayal-i Cihan, all Avşar Film productions.