Dilaver Uyanık

Born

11 September 1938

Place of birth

Malatya

Died

25 August 2004 (aged 65)

On Avşar Film

appeared in 1 movie

Dilaver Uyanık was born in 1938 in Malatya and completed his secondary education in the city. When the Malatya Thought and Art Association was founded in 1958, he was among the founding members; he contributed to the formation of the first regional theater in Eastern Anatolia and worked at this theater as an actor and director. During the same period he regularly wrote pieces in a local newspaper.

Between 1962 and 1965 he served as the manager of the Malatya Educational Radio; in this position he founded a folk music choir and a Turkish art music instrumental ensemble, and prepared radio theater and music programs. Interrupting his philosophy studies at Ankara University, he passed TRT's announcer exam and worked at the institution from 1968 to 1973. He then settled in Istanbul and continued his theater acting.

On television he became best known for Kemal in the series Şaşıfelek Çıkmazı and his role in the series Zerda. In the production Cumhuriyet he portrayed Grand Vizier Tevfik Paşa; he played Halil Ağa in the film Dilan, Faik in Av Zamanı and Tahir in Şahmaran.

Uyanık died in Istanbul in August 2004.

Uyanık appeared in Avşar Film's 2001 film Hemşo.