Aziz Basmacı was a Turkish theater and cinema actor who was born in Thessaloniki on June 9, 1910 and died in Ankara on March 14, 1978. After graduating from Şişli Terakki High School, he started acting by appearing on the stage at Cumhuriyet Gençler Mahfeli when he was only 11 years old. He participated in various events at Şişli Community Center Theater Branch and increased his stage experience in this process.
During his youth, he worked in a factory for a while to earn a living, and in 1928 he stepped into the professional stage with the play "Para Delisi".
Basmacı, who made a big breakthrough by taking on the roles of Salamon and Tikli Adam in the "Ses Operetta" in 1945, took part in the main cast of Yeni Ses and Şen Ses Operettas and performed in numerous comedies and vaudeville plays in the 1950s and 1960s. Known as a folk comic, the artist has appeared as a character actor in approximately sixty films; Productions such as "Domaniç Yolcusu", "Bloody Stones", "Ali and Veli", "Tarzan in Istanbul", "Danger Everywhere", "Bitter Zeytin", "Sevimli Tramp" and "Keşanlı Ali Epic" are engraved in the memory of the audience.
After working at Muammer Karaca Theater for years, he continued his stage life in the "Aziz Basmacı - Kenan Büke Group", which he founded with Kenan Büke, and achieved great success with his play "Kart Horoz". A serious surgery he had in 1969 and the subsequent illness took him away from the stage for a long time. He had a heart attack and died while traveling to Ankara by train on March 14, 1978.
The artist's two sons, Yusuf and Nejat Basmacı, still act in television series and commercials.
Aziz Basmacı was born in 1911 in Thessaloniki, Greece. He died on January 1, 1978.
Productions in which he took part
He took part in 34 productions in total; 12 of the most well-known are listed.
- Politics Square (1994) — Self (archive footage)
- Magnificent Zuğurtler (1964)
- Tarzan the Dümbüllü (1954)
- Hidden Wound (1953)
- Bitter Memories (1977)
- Trap (1948)
- The Forgotten Secret (1946)
- Making Love is Forbidden (1965)
- Nasreddin Hodja (1971) — Akşehir Kadı
- Bloody Stones (1948)
- Osman Killed Me (1963) — Lawyer Ali Empty
- I'm Not Worthy of You (1965)
Production and imprint information was taken from TMDB.
