Ferdi Merter Fosforoğlu was born in Ankara on September 19, 1939 and died in the same city on September 19, 2018, at the age of 79. In addition to the world of theatre, cinema and TV series, he also had an active career as a writer, director and voice actor. Merlet, who appeared in front of the camera in the movie "Tosun Pasha" directed by Muhsin Ertuğrul during her childhood years, later appeared in young and child roles in about twenty movies.
He started working as a dubbing artist in Yeşilçam in 1945; He took his stage name "Ferdi" from his dubbing teacher Ferdi Tayfur.
Merlet, who continued her cinema and theater studies in Istanbul until 1958, enrolled in the conservatory in 1959. After graduating from the Italian High School, he graduated from Ankara State Conservatory in 1962. He completed his military service in Sivas in 1963 and married his wife Cansın Hanım two years later. Between 1962 and 2004, he worked as an actor, director, literary board and disciplinary board member, and chief director at the State Theaters; He also worked as an artistic director at Ankara and Adana State Theatres.
He also performed at the Ankara Art Theatre, served on the board of directors of the Turkish Playwrights and Translators Association and was the president of the Theater Writers Association.
In addition to his voice-over projects, Ferdi Merter also took part in cinema and TV series sets. She became known to a wide audience with the character of Sefa Kervancıoğlu in the TV series "Acı Hayat" between 2005 and 2007; He took the stage with actors such as Kenan İmirzalıoğlu, Selin Demiratar, Oğuz Galeli, Ebru Kocaağa and Anta Toros in the series.
In the same period, he founded the "Ferdi Merter Art Academy" and in 2004, he founded the "Çığır Sahne" theater with his daughter Almula Merter. He wrote five books in his writing career and also worked on directing and screenwriting.
Merlet, who has directed many plays, especially in the field of stage direction, staged Dimitri Psathas's play "Beyefendi'ye Bir Liar Wanted" at Theater Cansın in 2012; He performed Muzaffer İzgü's play "Anadolar" at Ankara State Theater in 2006; He directed Aldo Nicolai's "Akvaryum" at Bursa State Theater in 2005.
He performed Turan Oflazoğlu's play "Genç Osman" with Çığır Sahne Actors in 2004; He staged Refik Erduran's play "Genghis Khan's Bicycle" at the Ankara State Theater in 2001. He also brought international plays such as Athol Fugard's "Pigsty", Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire", and Dario Fo's "Faceless" to the Ankara State Theater stage.
His own works such as "The Trial", "Swans Don't Sing", "There Was a Woman and a Man" and "Secret Session" were staged at Sivas and Ankara State Theatres. Ferdi Merter is the son of Yeşilçam's character actor Renan Fosforoğlu and actor Muazzez Arçay, and the older brother of theater and cinema artist Enis Fosforoğlu. After his death, he was buried in Karşıyaka Cemetery in Ankara.
Productions in which he took part
He took part in 13 productions in total; 12 of the most well-known are listed.
- Love for Rent (2015) — Hulusi İplikçi
- Establishment Osmancık (1988) — Roman Diogenes
- Bitter Life (2005) — Sefa Kervancıoğlu
- Istanbul in Cinema (2011)
- Cumhuriyet (1998) — Recep Peker
- Kolpachino: Bomb (2011)
- Satan (1974)
- Captain Tahsin (1950)
- Tourist Omer on Star Trek (1973) — Doctor McCoy
- Ruhsar, Daughter of the Mountains (1952)
- Fiddler on the Roof (1972)
- Çanakkale Lions (1964)
Production and imprint information was taken from TMDB.
