Theatre and film actor. He was born in 9 July 1946 in Istanbul. He became
interested in the theater when he was seventeen years old. He graduated from
the Theatre Department of the Conservatory. In addition, he studied theater in
the UK and France. He began working as an actor in Şehir Tiyatroları (T.N. City
Theatres). He has worked as an actor and director in the private theaters in
Istanbul. He founded the Ali Poyrazoğlu Theatre in 1972. He staged the plays of
Modern Turkish and international authors as a director and he played in these
plays. He starred in thirty movies. All of the forty five plays that he
translated into Turkish were staged in theaters and some of them were
published. He wrote and directed numerous radio and television plays. He created
memorable characters as the lead actor on the stage and in television series. He
exhibited his plays in Greece, Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. He
played one of the leading roles in a production titled as Pera Palas that received great interest and was
showed in Broadway in the United States in 1998.
Also, the essays, short stories and humor articles that were written
by Ali Poyrazoğlu were published in various magazines and newspapers. He wrote
weekly articles in the Sabah
newspaper. He received the prizes in the fields of cinema and theater for the
best actor, best director, and the most successful production for many
times.
WORKS:
TRIAL-CRITIQUE-HUMOR: Ödünç Yaşamlar (1999), İçimdeki
Timsah (2006).
SHORT STORY: Bir Sen Kaldın Yalnızlık Gelince (2006).
THEATER PLAYS HE ACTED
IN: Düşenin Dostu, Evet Evet
Evet, Hakkımı Ver Hakkı, Kelebek, İpteki, Gözlerimi Kaparım Vazifemi Yaparım,
Deliler Boşandı, Çılgınlar Kulübü, Orkestra, Oğlum Çiçek Açtı, Babam Dokuz
Doğurdu, Uzakta Piyano Sesleri, Ali Harikalar Diyarında, Eski Çamlar Bardak
Oldu...
MOVIES HE ACTED IN: Canavar Cafer, Namus Uğruna, Çılgın Kızlar,
Asiye Nasıl Kurtulur, Arkadaşım Şeytan... In the TV: Ali Uyanık, Darısı
Başınıza, İnsanlık Hali, Kim Bunlar, Sünnet Holding, Aile Bağları.
REFERENCE: Mustafa N. Özön - Baha Dürder / Türk Tiyatrosu Ansiklopedisi (1967), Metin And / Cumhuriyet Dönemi Türk Tiyatrosu (1983), Niyazi Akı / Türk Tiyatro Edebiyatı Tarihi I (1989), İhsan Işık / Resimli ve Metin Örnekli Türkiye Edebiyatçılar ve Kültür Adamları Ansiklopedisi (2006, 2007) – Ünlü Sanatçılar (Türkiye Ünlüleri Ansiklopedisi, C. 5, 2013) - Encyclopedia of Turkey’s Famous People (2013), Turhan Gürkan / Çağdaş Türk Sineması (1975), Ömer Ayhan / Siyah Beyaz Bir Öykü (Türk Sinemasının 1960’lı yıllardan günümüze kadarki yılları, 2001), Giovanni Scognamillo / Türk Sinema Tarihi (2. bas. 2003), Agâh Özgüç / Türk Filmleri Sözlüğü 1917-2009 (2009), Ali Poyrazoğlu (imdb.com, 03.04.2021), Ali Poyrazoğlu (sinematurk.com, 03.04.2021), Ali Poyrazoğlu (diziler.com, 03.04.2021), Ali Poyrazoğlu (beyazperde.com, 03.04.2021).