Rasim Öztekin

Born

15 January 1959

Place of birth

Istanbul

Died

8 March 2021 (aged 62)

On Avşar Film

appeared in 1 movie

Rasim Öztekin came into the world in 1959 in Istanbul. After Galatasaray High School, he graduated from the Istanbul University School of Press and Broadcasting. He was introduced to the stage through amateur work at Nöbetçi Tiyatro, the Kadıköy Public Education Center and the Istanbul Academic Artists Group; he began his professional career in Ferhan Şensoy's Ortaoyuncular troupe.

In 1989 he hosted the program Tele Düldül on TRT, and in the first half of the 1990s he prepared show programs on television. In 1994 he both staged and acted in the musical 2071'de Türkiye, written by Gani Müjde and Yılmaz Erdoğan. He wrote program scripts for TRT and wrote columns in the newspapers Akşam and Star.

In cinema, he became known for his roles as Bob Marley Faruk in G.O.R.A. and İsmail in Düğün Dernek; on television, he played Kuddusi Kirişçi in Geniş Aile and Fehmi Özdemir in Seksenler. In 2003 he was named supporting actor of the year in the musical or comedy category at the Afife Theater Awards for the play Biri Bizi Dikizliyor. The kavuk of Kel Hasan Efendi was given to him by Ferhan Şensoy in 2016; Öztekin passed the kavuk on to Şevket Çoruh in 2020. He died in Istanbul on 8 March 2021.

Öztekin played Hüsnü Baba in Avşar Film's 2010 film Deli Dumrul Kurtlar Kuşlar Aleminde.