Süha Doğan is a Turkish cinema artist who was born in Yozgat in 1920 and died in Istanbul on February 4, 1979. Since his father was the bureaucrat and politician Mehmet Avni Doğan, he started his artistic career in a different environment. He entered the world of cinema in 1952 with his role in the movie "Blood Brothers" and since then he has appeared as a supporting actor in more than a hundred films. He has also built a versatile career by directing 25 productions.
Doğan, who started his directorial career in 1957 with the movie "Gelin Ayşem", spent most of the 1960s with films such as "Çitlenbik", "Ninno", "I Will Not Leave Even If I Die", "From Heart to Heart", "Angels Are My Witnesses", "One Flower Three Böcek", "The Driver's Wife", "Killer Spring", "Three Playboy Brides", "Hiç?
You Didn't Love Me", "Windy Hill", "There's a Letter from Halime", "I'm the One Who Will Get Moisture", "Girls for Sale", "Bekri Mustafa", "Bloody Square", "Anjelik and Deli İbrahim", "Great Sin", "The Wound of Love is Deep", "Race of Love", "The Love of Giants", "They Paid Their Sins with Their Blood" and "Crazy" He appeared before the cinema audience with films such as "Virgins".
The productions he directed during this period created a series of works that reflected the popular themes and melodramatic elements of the period.
Continuing his identity as an actor, Doğan has appeared in early films such as "Blood Brothers" and "Milk Lambs", "Beyoğlu Güzeli", "İzmir Sokakları", "Lokum Sultan", "Safiye Sultan", "Lekeli Soy", "Ninno", "The Days We Made Love", "Someone Called Rıfat", "Where is the Devil in This", "The Driver's Wife", "Come Slowly, My Beautiful", “Quarter to Death”, “Ten to One”, “Beyoğlu Chickens”, “Scheherazade”, “Enemy to the Heart”, “The Inheritor”, “Woman of the Nights”, “Keşanlı Ali Epic (film)”, “Innocent Murderers”, “Counted Minutes”, “Heart for Sale”, “Woman Wants to Be Caressed”, “Our Father is Getting Married”, “Inside Me” Flame”, “The Man with the Golden Arm”, “Disgrace of the Family”, “Lawless Road”, “The Law Is Mine”, “Great Revenge”, “Don't Just Say It's a Driver”, “The Dead End”, “The Death Row”, “Poor Memet”, “Black Automobile”, “Time of Dawn”, “Yellow Rose”, “Revenge of the Gambler”, “From Lap to Lap”, He took part in many productions such as “Fearless Man”, “Turkish Commandos”, “You Are Mine”, “Son of the Devil”, “Defoliation”, “Bitter Days”, “Lionhearted Bully”, “Rob and Kill”, “Death Hour”, “Enemy Lovers”, “Cici Gelin”, “King of the Nights” and “My First Love”. His characters in these films reveal his flexible acting talent and the diversity of the cinema of the period.
Süha Doğan was born on February 8, 1920 in Yozgat, Türkiye. He died on February 4, 1979.
Productions in which he took part
He took part in 80 productions in total; 12 of the most well-known are listed.
- Cute Girls (1965) — (Voice by Hüseyin Baradan)
- I Want to Live (1967) — (Reha Yurdakul Voice)
- The Lionheart Bully (1967) — Süleyman Şevket
- Yıldırım Ajan (1972) — Pharmaceutical Factory Owner
- Death Turn (1972) — Murat's Right Arm
- Innocent Murderers (1964)
- Milk Lambs (1952)
- Flirtatious Girls (1975) — Manyak Orhan
- Wounded Wolf (1972) — Hilmi Selen
- Emine (1971) — Casino Boss
- Death Hour (1967) — Orhan
- Heaven's Fedailers (1965) — (Oktar Durukan Voice)
Production and imprint information was taken from TMDB.