Erol Günaydın

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Erol Günaydın (born 1933 in Akçaabat near Trabzon) is a veteran Turkish theater and film actor, as well as a renowned showman famous particularly for his portrayal of Nasreddin Hoca and his performances in the traditional Turkish meddah (one man shows). In theater since 1955 and in cinema since 1960, he recently celebrated his golden jubilee together with the fortieth anniversary of his marriage with spouse Güneş Günaydın, a native of Manisa, in company of his children, one of whom married into an Italian family.

Erol Günaydın became involved in theater while he was a student in Galatasaray Lisesi. He played in a very varied range of plays and character roles in films since then and became nationally famous especially once he also started appearing in TV shows on a frequent basis, first as the Turkish voice of Yogi Bear, and then in his Nasreddin Hoca and meddah shows, with also a leading role in the very successful TV serial "Çiçek Taxi". He is one of the best known faces in Turkey's world of performing arts.

His memoirs, put in writing in the form of long interview with the journalist Emine Algan, were published in 2007.

Awards
Preceded by Erol Keskin-Haldun Dormen	Golden Orange Award for Best Screenplay 1967 for Güzel Bir Gün İçin shared with Erol Keskin	Succeeded by Türkan Duru
Preceded by Müşfik Kenter	Golden Orange Award for Best Supporting Actor 1967 for Güzel Bir Gün İçin	Succeeded by Erol Taş

v • d • e Golden Orange Award for Best Screenplay Vedat Türkali (1965) · Erol Keskin-Haldun Dormen (1966) · Erol Günaydın-Erol Keskin (1967) · Türkan Duru (1968) · Türkan Duru (1969) · Sadık Şendil (1970) · Bülent Oran (1971) · Sadık Şendil (1972) · Hamdi Değirmencioğlu (1973) · Sadık Şendil (1974) · Yılmaz Güney (1975) · Umur Bugay (1976) · Vedat Türkali (1977) · Umur Bugay (1978) · Tuncel Kurtiz-Nurettin Sezer (1981) · Yavuz Turgul (1982) · Fehmi Yaşar (1983) · Bilge Olgaç (1984) · Muammer Özer (1985) · Yavuz Turgul (1986) · Yavuz Turgul (1987) · Feride Çiçekoğlu (1989) · Süheyla Acar Kalyoncu (1990) · Orhan Pamuk (1991) · Macit Koper (1992) · Yavuz Turgul (1993) · Nuray Oğuz (1994) · Aykut Tankuter-Artun Yeres (1995) · Derviş Zaim (1996) · Barış Pirhasan (1997) · Turgut Yasalar (1998) · Zeki Demirkubuz (1999) · Fatih Altınöz (2000) · Handan İpekçi (2001) · Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2002) · Ömer Kavur-Macit Koper (2003) · Uğur Yücel (2004) · Nilüfer Güngörmüş-Reha Erdem (2005) · Önder Çakar (2006) · Semih Kaplanoğlu-Orçun Köksal (2007)

v • d • e Golden Orange Award for Best Supporting Actor Ulvi Uraz (1964) · Müşfik Kenter (1966) · Erol Günaydın (1967) · Erol Taş (1968) · Ferit Şevki (1969) · Hayati Hamzaoğlu (1970) · Sadri Alışık (1971) · Süleyman Turan (1972) · Yıldırım Önal (1973) · Orçun Sonat (1974) · Erol Taş (1975) · İhsan Yüce (1976) · Hüseyin Peyda (1977) · Şener Şen (1978) · Yaman Okay (1981) · Orhan Çağman (1982) · Talat Bulut (1983) · Macit Koper (1984) · Engin İnal (1985) · Erdal Özyağcılar (1986) · Uğur Yücel (1987) · Tanju Gürsu (1988) · Menderes Samancılar (1989) · Tuncer Necmioğlu (1990) · Hayati Hamzaoğlu (1991) · Tuncer Necmioğlu (1992) · Fikret Hakan (1993) · Tuncel Kurtiz-Oktay Kaynarca (1994) · Mustafa Avkıran (1995) · Cengiz Sezici (1996) · Haluk Bilginer (1997) · Mustafa Uğurlu (1998) · Ercan Yazgan (1999) · Şükran Güngör-Eşref Kolçak (2000) · İsmail Hakkı Şen (2001) · Oktay Kaynarca-Mehmet Emin Toprak (2002) · Aytaç Arman-Çetin Öner (2003) · Bahri Beyat (2004) · Timuçin Esen (2005) · Civan Canova (2006) · Tuncel Kurtiz (2007)