Salih Kalyon

Born

2 February 1946 (aged 80)

Place of birth

Ağrı

On Avşar Film

appeared in 1 movie

Salih Kalyon was born on 2 February 1946 in Ağrı. His family is from the village of Koldere in the Çaykara district of Trabzon; his father, a watch and sign maker, had gone to Ağrı for work. The family later settled in Sakarya, and Kalyon spent his childhood and his primary and middle school years there.

He began professional acting in 1964 at the Ankara Sanat Tiyatrosu; in this company he took part in a broad repertoire ranging from Brecht to Orhan Kemal. During the first twenty years of his career, he wrote, directed and acted in children's plays. After moving to Istanbul, he appeared on stage with Dostlar Tiyatrosu and the BKM Oyuncuları; he took part in Yılmaz Erdoğan's plays Sen Hiç Ateşböceği Gördün mü? and Bana Bir Şeyhler Oluyor.

Wide audiences came to know him through the character Tak Tak Sedat in the series Bizimkiler. In cinema, he played Casim in Vizontele and its sequel and Halil Dede in the Eyyvah Eyvah films; on television, he played Serdar Tezcan in the series Ezel. He also appeared for a time in the program Komedi Dükkanı together with Tolga Çevik.

Kalyon played Keşansız in Avşar Film's 2018 film Aşk Bu Mu?.