Cüneyt Arkın

Eskişehir'in Alpu ilçesine bağlı Karaçay  köyünde doğdu. Babası Kurtuluş Savaşı'na katılmış Hacı Yakup'tur. Aslen Kırım Tatar Nogaylarindandır. Lise öğrenimini Eskişehir Atatürk Lisesi'nde yapmıştır. Türk sinemasının en ünlü oyuncularından biri olan Cüneyt Arkın, İstanbul Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesinden 1961 yılında mezun olmuştur,[2]  askerliğini yaptığı yerde Göksel Arsoy'un başrol oynadığı bir film çekilirken yönetmenin dikkatini çekmiştir. Bir süre iş arayan Fahrettin Cüreklibatır yönetmenin teklifi aklına gelip oyuncu olmaya karar vermiştir. Sinema oyunculuğu yaşamına 1964'te başlamış, ve iki yıl içinde en az otuz film çevirmiştir. Yaklaşık 300 filmde oynayan Cüneyt Arkın, son yıllarda Türk televizyonunda değişik dallarda gorünmeye başlamıştır. At binmede ve karatede uzman sporcu unvanına sahiptir. İngiltere'de bulunduğu dönem İngiliz yapımcılar tarafından Ajan James Bond karakterini canlandırması için kendisi ile görüşülmüştür.

Betül Cüreklibatır ile evlidir. Kaan ve Murat adlarında iki çocuğu vardır.

Cüneyt Arkın (born Fahrettin Cüreklibatır [1]  on 7 September 1937 at Gökçeoğlu village of Alpu district in Eskişehir, Turkey), is a Turkish film actor, director and producer. His real name is Fahrettin Cüreklibatur.

 

He is not only a doctor in medicine, but also a renowned martial artist in over seven different forms. Having starred in approximately 248 movies and TV series, he is generally considered one of the most prominent Turkish actors of all time. His films have sometimes been exported, featuring him as George Arkin.

 

His most notable movies are historical dramas, taking place during the first centuries of the Ottoman Empire or slightly before the Ottoman Empire, during the age of the Anatolian Seljuks and Arabs. A good example of these films is Malkoçoğlu Cem Sultan and Batal Gazi. However these films had a strong ultra-nationalistic and conservative theme bordering extremism. While gaining success with such action based films, he also took part in political films in the late 1970s, the most famous of these being The Adam Trilogy directed by Remzi Aydın Jöntürk.

 

Although it is one of the poorest quality films that feature him, he is famous abroad for the movie Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam (The Man Who Saves The World - also known as Turkish Star Wars), an extremely low-budget science fiction tentatively famous for including bootlegged scenes from Star Wars. On set, Arkin was well known to have performed many incredible feats of his martial arts combat skills, like jumping around on trampolines and splitting boulders with his fists. In an unfortunate incident, an extra was harmed when he got into an argument with him, over the authenticity of his martial arts abilities. The two sparred but the fight ended quickly when Arkin kicked him hard in the kneecap of his left leg (though some maintain it was his right), instantly causing the leg to buckle in the opposite direction. Arkin felt very bad over this and later visited the man in hospital to apologise to him.