Acting credits
43
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Birol Ünel
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.4
Moderate attention
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Movies: 33Series: 10
TMDB ID: 5117
IMDb ID: nm0960379
Known for: Acting
Born: August 18, 1961
Died: September 3, 2020
Age: 59
Place of birth: Silifke, Mersin, Turkey
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1970 - 2018
Years active: 49
Average TMDB rating: 6.4
Wikidata: Q25839
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Birol Ünel (born 18 August 1961) was a Turkish-German actor who played in German and Turkish films, television, and theatrical productions. His name, "Birol", means "unique" in Turkish. Ünel was born in Mersin in southern Turkey. In 1968, his family moved to Brinkum near Bremen in Germany. He studied acting at Hanover Conservatory. Ünel began as a theatre actor at the Berliner Tacheles where he played the lead and also directed the play "Caligula". Ünel made his film debut in 1988's The Passenger. He played a private detective in the film Dealer which he followed up with a role in Fatih Akın's Im Juli. Birol then acted in the award winning Gegen die Wand as Cahit Tomruk. He won the German film prize for best actor for this role. His latest films have been Transylvania, Seven Heroes and Soul Kitchen. Ünel also acted in the hit Turkish film Hırsız var! in 2005.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Birol Ünel.
4.2
Hürkuş: Göklerdeki Kahraman
as İvan
2018 Movie
6.0
Falling
as Aslan
2016 Movie
6.5
Plan B
as Hausmeister
2016 Movie
Back to Nothing
as Kongo
2016 Movie
6.2
I'm Off Then
as Americo
2015 Movie
Netekim Karakolu
2015 Movie
5.3
Looking for Eimish
as Lupô
2012 Movie
5.9
Sleepless Night
as Yilmaz
2011 Movie
The Cricket
as Worker
2011 Movie
6.9
Soul Kitchen
as Shayn Weiss
2009 Movie
5.0
The Moon and Other Lovers
as Gansar
2008 Movie
4.9
Valerie
as Jaro
2007 Movie
5.8
The Unpolished
as Axel
2007 Movie
5.4
House of the Sleeping Beauties
as Herr Gold
2006 Movie
5.4
Transylvania
as Tchangalo
2006 Movie
4.6
Robbery Alla Turca
as Pamir
2005 Movie
8.3
Kalbin Zamanı
as Demir
2004 Movie
German Dream
as Birol Ünel
2004 Movie
7.5
Head-On
as Cahit Tomruk
2004 Movie
5.8
King of Thieves
as Birol
2003 Movie
3.8
Blackberry
as Sylvester
2002 Movie
4.0
My Mother
as Hasan
2002 Movie
7.4
Enemy at the Gates
as Politruk
2001 Movie
Planet Alex
as Milan
2001 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Birol Ünel.
8.0
Der Puma - Kämpfer mit Herz
as Bernd Schlegel • 1 eps
2000 Series
7.3
Der Clown
as Cosmo Nunnari • 1 eps
1998 Series
Tierarzt Dr. Engel
as Siggi Kirchlechner • 1 eps
1998 Series
1.0
Dead Pool
as Zohair Y. Akache aka 'Captain Mahmoud' • 2 eps
1997 Series
6.6
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
as Harkan Bülent • 1 eps
1996 Series
5.8
Balko
as Tobias Wölke • 1 eps
1995 Series
6.9
Der Fahnder
as Nick Peters • 1 eps
1984 Series
5.5
A Case For Two
as Klaus • 1 eps
1981 Series
6.4
Auf Achse
as Kemal • 1 eps
1980 Series
6.2
Scene of the Crime
as Houari Al'Bakr • 1 eps
1970 Series