Hazım Körmükçü (Dede)

Karagöz Puppeteer, Theatre Actor/Actress, Actor/Actress

Death
01 April, 1944
Education
Kabataş High School
Other Names
Kâzım

Master of Karagöz shadow play, theater and cinema player. (B. 1898, Beyoğlu / Istanbul – D. 1st April 1944, Istanbul). His real name was Kâzım Körmükçü. The theater and cinema players Pelin Körmükçü and Hazım Körmükçü are his grandchildren. His father was a solfeggio teacher in the Military Band (the music school or orchestra of the palace). He was interested in music because of the profession of his father and he started to play many instruments. He studied in Şemsülmekâtip and then, he graduated from the Kabataş High School. He was one of the first theater and cinema artists of Turkey. Even though he was interested in music since his young ages, his passion for theatre predominated and he joined the Benliyan Theatre Company in 1915. Körmükçü, who learned how to perform the Karagöz shadow play, started to work here as an assistant player. After he worked in Darülbedayi (Istanbul City Theatre) in 1917, in the Ferah Theatre, the Raşit Rıza Community and the Millî  Theatre, he also played parts in operettas. He especially became a success in the plays of Musahipzade Celâl and he became one of the artists who were very loved and held in high esteem by the community.

Körmükçü entered into the movie sector by the end of the 1920s and became one of the well-known actors of the movies directed by Muhsin Ertuğrul. The artist, who played the leading role in many movies, was also a master of Karagöz shadow play. Right along with his acting career, he also directed a movie and wrote the script of a movie. In one period, he worked as a vender of the national lottery tickets. The master actor presented successful acts in the following cinema movies: Ankara Postası (1928), Kaçakçılar (1929), Istanbul Sokaklarında (1931), Bir Millet Uyanıyor (1932), Leblebici Horhor Ağa (1933), Söz Bir Allah Bir (1933), Karım Beni Aldatırsa (1933), Düğün Gecesi (Kanlı Nigar, 1933), Milyon Avcıları (1934), Aysel Bataklı Damın Kızı (1935), Aynaroz Kadısı (1938), Allah’ın Cenneti (1939), Tosun Paşa (1939), Bir Kavuk Devrildi (1939), Akasya Palas (1940), Kahveci Güzeli (1941), Nasreddin Hoca Düğünde (1943), Domaniç Yolcusu / Unutulan Sır (1946), Mahallenin Namusu (1953).

The name of the grandson of Hazım Körmükçü is also Hazım Körmükçü and he is also a theatre and cinema player. The theatre and cinema player Pelin Körmükçü is also one of his grandchildren. When the grandfather Körmükçü died in Istanbul, more than 5.000 fans of him participated in his funeral ceremony. The Istanbul Municipal Theatre declared 2 days of mourning upon his death and didn’t open its curtains.

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