Erol Taş

Actor

February 28, 1928 (70 years)

† November 8, 1998

Karaköse, Erzurum, Türkiye

Biography

Erol Taş (28 February 1928 - 8 November 1998) was a Turkish film actor. He appeared in 220 films between 1957 and 1998. He is mostly known for the villainous male characters he played in Turkish cinema.

Filmography

4.5

Siyaset Meydanı

Self(archive footage)

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8.3

Küçük Ağa

Çakırsaraylı

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8.5

Kuruluş Osmancık

Dündar Bey

A TV series adapted from Tarık Buğra's novel "Osmancık" telling the story of the founding of the Ottoman Empire.

7.7

Beyond the Nights

Ekrem

Seven friends living in the same neighborhood with different aims form a gang to rob gas stations in pursuit of their shared desire for money. The film serves as a critique of the socio-economic situation of Türkiye and the approach to the "American Dream" in the period of time before May 27th.

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Mesela Muzaffer

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7.0

Hanımın Çiftliği

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8.0

İz Peşinde

Başkomiser Ahmet

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7.6

Dry Summer

Osman

A scheming tobacco farmer sets out to ruin his competition by diverting the local water to his own property.

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İsyan

Ağa

The chief is the chief of seven villages. He makes a living as a smuggler. Apo's father is the chief's smuggler. One day, he steps on a mine while smuggling and dies. His family is too afraid of the chief to claim his body. Around this time, Apo is having an affair with Ayno, the beautiful daughter of a villager named Şahan; they meet secretly from time to time. Apo goes to the chief to ask him to send him on a smuggling trip, as it is his only option to earn the dowry money...

6.3

Derviş Bey

Karahanlı Şehmuz Bey

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7.0

Başka Olur Ağaların Düğünü

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7.6

Revenge of the Snakes

Haceli

The film follows the life of a poor, old woman defying the hierarchy in the village. Irazca is an old woman who lives with her son Kara Bayram, her daughter-in-law Hatice, and three grandchildren. The headman of the village sells a lot from the common land of the village to Haceli. The family does not want a house to be built in front of their house and struggles against the tricks of the headman and Haceli.

9.0

Yedi Adım Sonra

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6.3

Law of the Border

Ali Cello

In Deliviran, a village near Urfa close to the Syrian border, Hidir’s chief is involved in smuggling and gets shot. Hidir tries to stay out of illegal activities but circumstances contrive to push him in the opposite direction until he accepts to take a herd of sheep across the border.

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Yarın Artık Bugündür

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7.1

Madam Dilâ

Kara Haydar

Madam Dila is the grieving widow of a recently deceased Ağa (feudal landowner) who is hell-bent on wreaking revenge on Rıza, the man who murdered her husband. She sends her men to kill him and then ironically, saves his life because she doesn’t know it’s him.

6.5

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Haramilerin Başı

The Classical story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, starring Sadri Alışık as Ali Baba.

9.0

Mother

Sevket

Sevket is killed while he escaping blood vengeance. After that, Döndü must look after her children in despite of poverty and blood vengeance.

4.6

Lover of the Monster

Boris (credited on Turkish prints only)

Anijeska, the Rassimov's heir, moves with her husband, Dr. Alex Nijinski, to her father's mansion. In the basement, the doctor discovers the laboratory in which the late Rassimov carried out horrifying experiments.

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Dilek Taşı

Serif

Şerif Ağa wants to marry the girl, who works with her, to a rich man. Zeynep resists but when she hears that the young man he loves will be killed, she has to accept it.