Muhammed Cangören

Born

1 July 1951 (aged 75)

Place of birth

Maymana

On Avşar Film

appeared in 1 movie

Muhammed Cangören was born on 1 July 1951 in the city of Maymana in Afghanistan; he is an Afghan Turkmen. He was introduced to theater in his middle school years and, working in Afghan television from 1969, acted in between twenty-five and thirty television films.

He came to Turkey in 1982 and first did children's theater work in Gaziantep; he learned Turkish during these years. He began acting in series in 1998 with İkinci Bahar, then appeared as Nedim, Hanım Ağa's man, in Üvey Baba and in the series Berivan.

His recognition among wide audiences came in 2003 with the character Abuzer Kömürcü, whom he brought to life in Kurtlar Vadisi. In later years he took the roles of Sıtkı Seyitoğlu in Sakarya Fırat, Hamdi Baba in Eşkıya Dünyaya Hükümdar Olmaz and İhsan in Deha. In the film Operasyon: Argo, directed by Ben Affleck, he played a Persian-speaking Iranian shopkeeper; he was also in the casts of the series Çukur and Yalı Çapkını.

Cangören played Papaz Hanna in Avşar Film's 2010 film Ay Lav Yu.