Erdal Tosun

Born

9 April 1963

Place of birth

Istanbul

Died

30 November 2016 (aged 53)

On Avşar Film

appeared in 3 movies

Erdal Tosun was born on 9 April 1963 in Istanbul. He is the son of the Yeşilçam actor Necdet Tosun and the brother of the actor Gürdal Tosun. He finished Beyoğlu Fındıklı High School in 1980 and stepped into cinema in his youth with the film Mine. After completing the Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory, he founded Özel Tiyatro.

He worked for a long time at the Antalya State Theater; Memet Baydur's Lozan and Murathan Mungan's Geyikler Lanetler are among the plays he acted in there; he also appeared in Mungan's Mezopotamya Üçlemesi. Leaving the State Theaters, he joined the BKM actors and took part in Yılmaz Erdoğan's play Sen Hiç Ateşböceği Gördün mü?.

In cinema he became known through the roles of Şeyhmus in Vizontele, Rendroy in G.O.R.A. and Üzeyir Kavak in Organize İşler. On television, the characters Medeni Karpuz, whom he played in the series Yarım Elma, and Memo, whom he played in Rina, were remembered for the lines he delivered. He also worked in voice-over; he became the Turkish voice of Tahm Kench in League of Legends. Tosun died on 30 November 2016 in a traffic accident in Istanbul.

Tosun appeared in the Avşar Film productions Türkler Çıldırmış Olmalı, Babam ve Oğlum (Mustafa) and Sonsuz (Bekçi Haydar).