Şener Şen

Şener Şen
Born Şener Şen
December 26, 1941 (1941-12-26) (age 70)
Adana, Turkey
Occupation Actor/Producer
Years active 1966–present
Spouse Şermin Hürmeriç (1989–1997; divorced)

Şener Şen (26 December 1941 in Adana, Turkey) is a Turkish film and theatre actor, who has won the Golden Orange for Best Actor twice for his roles in Mr. Muhsin (1985) and Lovelorn (2005), the Golden Orange for Best Supporting Actor for Çöpçüler Krali (1977) and a Golden Orange Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Biography

Şener Şen began acting in 1958 at the age of 17 as an amateur at the Yeşil Sahne Theater in Cağaloğlu. From 1964 to 1966 he taught in elementary schools in the villages of eastern Anatolia. In 1966 he returned to the stage at the City Theater in Istanbul. He made his film debut with a small role in the drama film So-Called Girls (1967), directed by Nejat Saydam.

He maintained a prolific output throughout the 70's as a supporting cast member in a number of films by popular Turkish comedy actor Kemal Sunal, most significantly as Body Ekrem in the Hababam Sınıfı film series, and in 1978 he received the Golden Orange for Best Supporting Actor for Çöpçüler Krali (1977), directed by Zeki Ökten.

From 1980 to 1982 he continued his theater work in Germany. His first leading film role was alongside Müjde Ar in the comedy The Shalvar Trouser Trial (1983), directed by Kartal Tibet, for which he was named Best Film Actor by a number of film and stage publications, and he won the Golden Orange for Best Actor for his roles in Mr. Muhsin (1985), written and directed by Yavuz Turgul.

He starred in the award-winning The Bandit (1996), written and directed by Yavuz Turgul, for which he was also the executive producer. In 2004 he received a Golden Orange Lifetime Achievement Award and he won the Golden Orange for Best Actor a second time for his role in Lovelorn (2005), also written and directed by Yavuz Turgul.

He is the son of Turkish actor Ali Şen and was married to Turkish actress Şermin Hürmeriç from 1989 until their divorce in 1997.

Filmography

Film appearances
Year Title Role Notes
1967 So-Called Girls (Turkish: Sözde Kızlar) Şener Şen's film debut.
1971 Altın Prens Devler Ülkesinde
1972 Katerina
1973 Aşk Mahkumu
Bitirimler Sosyetede Garson
Bir Demet Menekşe
1974 Yaşar Ne Yaşar Ne Yaşamaz
Ayrı Dünyalar
1975 Bak Yeşil Yeşil Ahmet
Bizim Aile Şener
Hababam Sınıfı Sınıfta Kaldı Body Ekrem
Aptal Şampiyon Fong
1976 Hababam Sınıfı Uyanıyor Body Ekrem
Tosun Paşa Lütfü
Süt Kardeşler Kumandan Hüsamettin
1977 Hababam Sınıfı Tatilde Body Ekrem
Şabanoğlu Şaban Kumandan Hüsamettin
Çöpçüler Kralı Zabıta Amiri Won the Golden Orange for Best Supporting Actor.
Laughing Eyes (Turkish: Gülen Gözler) Vecihi
1978 Kibar Feyzo Maho Ağa
Sultan Bakkal Bahtiyar
Hababam Sınıfı Dokuz Doğuruyor Body Ekrem
Neşeli Günler Ziya
1979 Erkek Güzeli Sefil Bilo Maho Ağa
N'olacak Şimdi Şakir
1980 Banker Bilo Banker Maho
1981 Gırgıriyede Şenlik Var
Davaro Sülo
1982 Adile Teyze Sadık
Çiçek Abbas Şakir
Dolap Beygiri Banker Yakup
1983 Gırgıriyede Cümbüş Var Duman Haydar
Şekerpare Ziver
The Shalvar Trouser Trial (Turkish: Şalvar Davası) Ağa First lead role.
1984 Gırgıriyede Büyük Seçim
High Principled (Turkish: Namuslu) Ali Rıza
1985 Züğürt Ağa Ağa
Aşık Oldum Şakir
Çıplak Vatandaş İbrahim
1986 Milyarder Mesut
Değirmen Kaymakam Hilmi
1987 Mr. Muhsin (Turkish: Muhsin Bey) Muhsin Bey Won the Golden Orange for Best Actor.
Selamsız Bandosu Latif Şahin
1987 Zengin Mutfağı Lütfü Usta
Arabesk Şener
1990 Aşk Filmlerinin Unutulmaz Yönetmeni Haşmet Asilkan
1992 Gölge Oyunu Abidin
1993 Amerikalı Şeref The Türk
1996 The Bandit (Turkish: Eşkıya) Baran Also executive producer.
2000 İkinci Bahar Ali Haydar
2004 Lovelorn (Turkish: Gönül Yarası) Nazım Won the Golden Orange for Best Actor.
2007 For Love and Honor (Turkish: Kabadayı) Ali Osman
2010 Hunting Season (Turkish: Av Mevsimi) Avcı

TV shows

Awards

External links

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) · Tuncel Kurtiz (1980) · 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 · Volga Sorgu Tekinoğlu (2008) · Volga Sorgu Tekinoğlu (2009) · Cengiz Bozkurt / Rıza Akın (2010) · Erkan Avcı (2011)

İzzet Günay (1964) · Fikret Hakan (1965) · Ekrem Bora (1966) · Yılmaz Güney (1967) · Fikret Hakan (1968) · Cüneyt Arkın (1969) · Yılmaz Güney (1970) · Fikret Hakan (1971) · Murat Soydan (1972) · Tarık Akan (1973) · Hakan Balamir (1974) · Erkan Yücel (1975) · Cüneyt Arkın (1976) · Kemal Sunal (1977) · Tarık Akan (1978) · Fikret Hakan (1979) · Tarık Akan / Aytaç Arman (1980) · İhsan Yüce (1981) · Genco Erkal (1982) · Genco Erkal (1983) · Tarık Akan (1984) · Hakan Balamir (1985) · Kadir İnanır (1986) · Şener Şen (1987) · Aytaç Arman (1988) · Tarık Akan (1989) · Tarık Akan (1990) · Ekrem Bora (1991) · Mehmet Aslantuğ (1992) · Mehmet Aslantuğ (1993) · Sadri Alışık / Mehmet Aslantuğ (1994) · Halil Ergün (1995) · Ruhi Sarı (1996) · Tanju Gürsu (1997) · Erkan Can (1998) · Uğur Polat (1999) · Talat Bulut (2000) · Altan Erkekli (2001) · Fırat Tanış (2002) · Tarık Akan (2003) · Olgun Şimşek (2004) · Şener Şen (2005) · Erkan Can (2006) · Murat Han (2007) · Tayanç Ayaydın (2008) · Öner Erkan (2009) · Serkan Ercan (2010) · Erdal Beşikçioğlu (2011)
Atıf Yılmaz-Hülya Koçyiğit-Tarık Akan-Türkan Şoray (1996) · Fikret Hakan-Müjde Ar-Nejat Saydam-Yılmaz Duru (1997) · Fatma Girik-Memduh Ün-Kemal Sunal (1998) · Şerif Gören-Nedim Otyam-Cahit Berkay-Göksel Arsoy-Cüneyt Arkın-Türker İnanoğlu-Osman Şahin-Hayati Hamzaoğlu (1999) · Kadir İnanır-Ekrem Bora-Orhan Günşıray-Sümer Tilmaç-Filiz Akın-Zülfü Livaneli-Orhan Aksoy (2000) · Ediz Hun-Suna Pekuysal-Bülent Oran-Sırrı Gültekin (2001) · Hulki Saner-İzzet Günay-Kartal Tibet-Kenan Kurt-Selda Alkor (2002) · Kadri Yurdatap-Tunç Başaran-Çolpan İlhan-Muhterem Nur-Tanju Gürsu-Süleyman Turan-Rafet Şiriner (2003) · Şener Şen-Hale Soygazi (2004) · Seyfi Havaeri-Efgan Efekan-Nebahat Çehre (2005) · Aytaç Arman-Yusuf Sezgin (2006) · Yavuz Turgul-Halil Ergün (2007)