Celal Belgil is a Turkish theatre, cinema and TV series actor who performed for many years in Ferhan ลensoy's Ortaoyuncular troupe and is known to the television audience with his character Sabit Efendi in the Avrupa Yakasฤฑ series.
He was born in Istanbul in 1956. He first met the stage at the Istanbul City Theater when he was 12 years old. After playing in amateur stages in the early 1980s, he met Ferhan ลensoy in 1984 and joined Ortaoyuncular.
Medium players and the stage
During his approximately eighteen years in the troupe, he took part in plays such as Song with a Tram Passing Through It, Yorgun Matador, Kรถhne Byzantine Opera, Fiลne Pahรงesu and Kรถkรผ Bitti Zฤฑkkฤฑm Zulada. In 2002, he won the Most Successful Musical or Comedy Supporting Actor of the Year award at the Afife Theater Awards for his performance in Kahraman Osman.
After leaving Ortaoyuncular, he worked with private theaters such as Theater E.S.E.K, Theater Kedi and Theater World Players; Sweet Crazy, What If It Works, Which One Is His Wife? and Bir Bu Lakti are among the plays of this period.
Cinema and television
He appeared in front of the camera in 1988 with the movie Arabesque. In the following years, he appeared in films such as Everything Will Be Beautiful, Young Man, Pardon and 3. Type, and TV series such as Ekmek Teknesi and Yeter Anne. He gained his widest recognition with Avrupa Yakasฤฑ, in which he played Sabit Efendi, the doorman of Sรผtรงรผoฤlu Apartment and Gaffur's father.
Belgil is known as an actor who devoted most of his career to the stage and brought his experience in comedy theater to the screen.
