Erman Okay

Born

2 January 1940 (aged 86)

Place of birth

Izmir

On Avşar Film

appeared in 1 movie and 2 series

Erman Okay was born in 1940 in Izmir. He graduated from the Near Eastern Archaeology Department of the Faculty of Language and History-Geography at Ankara University. Between 1957 and 1960 he took part in the seminars and practical work of the Theater Lovers Youth Society in Ankara, later called the Deneme Sahnesi. He began professional acting in 1961 at the Ankara Meydan Sahnesi and stayed there until 1964.

He made his first attempt at directing in 1967, during his military service in Polatlı, with the play Ay Mavidir; between 1967 and 1970 he directed the Ankara Binbirgece Children's Theater. He worked as a radio announcer and producer in Ankara and Izmir, and from 1967 to 1976 he hosted entertainment programs on TRT Ankara Television.

Between 1982 and 1987 he directed the Turkish theater group within the Theater der Jugend in Munich; he staged plays he had written himself and prepared bilingual Turkish-German shows. In Germany he acted in television productions such as Tatort and SOKO München, wrote screenplays, and prepared a documentary about Dido Sotiriu called Anıların Tadı. In Turkey he played Zafer Ar in the series Kocamın Ailesi and Hıdır in Kafa Doktoru.

Okay appeared in the Avşar Film productions Yer Gök Aşk (Yılmaz Hancıoğlu), Kedi Özledi (Suat) and Aşk Yakar.