Hikmet Karagöz

Born

31 December 1946

Place of birth

Vezirköprü

Died

27 October 2020 (aged 73)

On Avşar Film

appeared in 1 movie and 2 series

Hikmet Karagöz was born on 31 December 1946 in the Vezirköprü district of Samsun. He began theatre in 1962-1963 as an amateur actor at the Eminönü Halkevi; the company with which he stepped into professional life in 1964 was the Küçük Sahne Ulvi Uraz Tiyatrosu. He also worked for a period at the Istanbul City Theatres and left there in 1980. On stage, he appeared in the plays Kahraman Bakkal Süpermarkete Karşı and Şahları da Vururlar.

His first television job was Yaşar Ne Yaşar Ne Yaşamaz. He moved into cinema in 1982 with the film Faize Hücum; in En Büyük Şaban he stayed in people's memories with the scene in which he sells the Bosphorus Bridge to Kemal Sunal's character. He also acted in the films Ortadirek Şaban and Çıplak Vatandaş. Wide recognition came with Çaycı Abbas, whom he played in Bizimkiler, which he joined in 1990; Üvey Baba, Yeditepe İstanbul and Bir Zamanlar Çukurova are also among the series he appeared in.

Besides acting, from 1986 on he mainly made watercolor paintings and held professional exhibitions. He died in Istanbul on 27 October 2020.

Karagöz appeared in the Avşar Film productions Memleket, Bugünün Saraylısı and Sultan Makamı (Bekçi).