Güner Sümer

Güner Sümer is a theater and cinema artist who was born in Ankara on 19 March 1936 and died in the same city on 27 April 1977. Known as both an actor and a playwright, Sümer is also known as the brother of the famous writer Adalet Ağaoğlu.

While he was continuing his law education at Ankara University, he left this field in 1960 and went to Paris and was introduced to performing arts under the teaching of Charles Dulin. After returning to Turkey, he performed in amateur groups such as Ankara University Theater Group and Sahne Z; He started his professional career at Arena Theater in 1962.

In 1964, she married the writer Tezer Özlü, whom she met in Paris, and settled in Ankara; He worked as both an actor and director in institutions such as Eskişehir Municipal Theater and Ankara Art Theater. After parting ways with Özlü in 1967, he became one of the founders of the Istanbul Art Theater and moved into the world of cinema, appearing in various films.

He married Suna Selen and gave birth to a son, Sinan Sümer; He also stepped into the acting profession in the following years. Sumer, who was struggling with cancer, passed away on April 27, 1977, following his illness; His last film, "King of the Doormen", met with the audience four days before his death.

Among the plays that the artist directed on stage are "The Secret Army" (Brendan Behan) and "Dead Without Graves" (Jean Paul Sartre) in 1963, "Ayak Bacak Fabrikası" (Sermet Çağan) and "Yosma" (Ruzante) in 1964, his own works "Bozuk Order" and "A Marriage Under the Comet" (Hüseyin Rahmi) in 1965. Gürpınar) directed productions such as "Little Bourgeois" (Maksim Gorki) in 1966, "Durand Boulevard" (Armand Salacrou) in 1967 and "Eskici Dükkanı" (Orhan Kemal) in 1968.

Sümer, who also appeared as an actor in the same works, took part in important plays such as "Waiting for Godot", "Dead Souls", "Dance of Hell", "Arturo Ui's Preventable Climb" and "72nd Ward".

As a writer, he wrote the plays "Broken Order" in 1965 and "Tomorrow Saturday" in 1988. In his cinema career, he appeared in the 1974 movie "Diyet". The research, based on Gökhan Teker's master's thesis on the life and art of Güner Sümer, was published in 2021 under the name "Güner Sümer's Little Person" with the foreword of her sister Adalet Ağaoğlu.

Güner Sümer was born on March 19, 1936 in Ankara, Türkiye. He died on April 27, 1977.

Productions in which he took part

• The Forgotten (1974)
• Diet (1974) — Salim
• The King of Doormen (1977) — Nuri
• Esir Hayat (1974) — Mustafa Niyazi

Production and imprint information was taken from TMDB.