Radio-TV host. He was born in Istanbul in 1928. He has Caucasian origins.
He is the son of Dr. Hikmet Bey, who attended the Sivas Congress as the
delegate of Military
Medical School.
He graduated from Galatasaray High School (1946), and registered in Istanbul University, Faculty of Literature, and
Department of Turcology. Due to
financial problems, he began to work in City Theatre. After the war, he worked
as interpreter for a French group. The group has invited him to France and he did one year of internship in Les
Mathurins Theatre, Paris.
He started the stand-up tradition in Turkey with his show “Ayaküstü
Gırgırı” in night clubs. He began to work as the assistant of Ekrem Reşit Rey
at Istanbul Radio in 1949. He conducted spectacle publications and also worked
as the production director (1949-1950). He worked in the Turkish section of BBC
London for four years. He returned to Turkey upon letter sent by his
close friend Şakir Eczacıbaşı. He directed movies and wrote humoristic
articles. He became famous with his radio, stage and TV programs. He wrote in Dünya, Hürriyet and Milliyet newspapers. He published his memoirs as weekly articles in
these newspapers. He compiled these memoirs in a book named Leyleğin Ömrü (1978).
“Orhan Boran has vocalized “Yuki” in the radio for
long years; and the “Yuki” we imagined was exactly the same “Yuki” we have seen
in the comics……The same “Yuki” we imagined….Really..”
“And….Forty years later when they asked us to describe
in a few words as we had a chance to see him now, we have said what we imagined
forty years ago: “Orhan Boran is a very good person!..” (Ali Kırca)
REFERENCE:
Sefer E. Berzeg / Kafkas Diasporası’nda Edebiyatçılar ve Yazarlar Sözlüğü
(1955), Büyük Larousse (4. vol. 1986), TDOE – TDE Ansiklopedisi 2 (2002), İhsan
Işık (TEKAA, 2009).
