Who is Çolpan İlhan?

Çolpan İlhan (8 August 1936 - 25 July 2014), Turkish theater and cinema artist.

He started his high school education at Balıkesir High School. Later he graduated from Kandilli High School for Girls. Later he graduated from the theater department of the Istanbul Municipal Conservatory and the painting department of the State Academy of Fine Arts. Meanwhile, together with his friends at the academy, he established a theater group called “Academy Theater” and prepared plays. In the meantime, he played the leading role in the first movie, Kamelyalı Kadın, in 1957. In the same year, he played his first professional game in the Little Stage with Münir Özkul and Uğur Başaran with the play "Dear Shadow".

After taking part in theaters in Küçük Sahne for three seasons, with the disintegration of this theater, he staged the “Reversal Umbrella” of Müfit Ofluoğlu and Sabahattin Kudret Aksal in the Chamber Theater. Later, he played with Kent Actors on Güner Sümer's “Tomorrow Saturday”. He also performed with Kenterler in "Sound of Spring", "Horseshoes" and "Stupid Girl". After a while, he stopped the theater with the birth of his son Kerem. In the mid-1960s, he returned to his art life with cinema films and took part in nearly 300 films. Ilhan, who played the leading roles in the movies until the late 1970s, later broke off from the cinema and concentrated on making fashion drawings.

Çolpan İlhan is the sister of the poet Attilâ İlhan, the wife of cinema artist Sadri Alışık and the mother of actress Kerem Alışık. The actor, who was given the title of State Artist in 1998 by the Ministry of Culture, is the founder of Sadri Alışık Cultural Center. He died of a heart attack on July 25, 2014. Her body was buried next to her husband Sadri Alışık at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery.

Çolpan İlhan Movies

• Breath (2009) (TV Series)
• Burning Cocoon (2005-2006) (TV Series)
• Green Light (2002)
• Belly Dancer (2001)
• Sweet Life (2001) (TV Series)
• Trees Die Standing (2000) (TV movie)
• First Love (1997) (TV Series)
• I Bury You in My Heart (1982)
• Aşk-ı Memnu (1975) (TV Series)
• Fatoş The Unfortunate Puppy (1970)
• Galatalı Fatma (1969)
• Two orphans (1969)
• Howling Nağmeler (1969)
• Pavement Flower (1969)
• The Winds of Autumn (1969)
• Cemile (1968)
• Hijran Night (1968)
• The Twist of Destiny (1967)
• Heavy Crime (1967)
• The Crying Woman (1967)
• Eveningmaker (1967)
• Marko Pasha (1967)
• Fly Grocery (1967)
• Pride Falling (1967)
• Toxic Life (1967)
• Streetgirl (1966)
• College Girl's Love (1966)
• Thank God (1966)
• The painter (1966)
• Hand Girl (1966)
• Death Prisoner (1966)
• The Slum (1966)
• Jealous Woman (1966)
• Honor is Written in Blood (1966)
• Black Rose (1966)
• Tourist Omer in Germany (1966)
• Tourist Omer Dümenciler King (1965)
• Loving Woman Does Not Forget (1965)
• Breadmaker Woman (1965)
• Jokingly (1965)
• Berduş Millionaire (1965)
• A Strange Man (1965)
• My Husband's Fiance (1965)
• Neighbor's Chicken (1965)
• Repairman's Piece (1965)
• Pickpocket's Love (1965)
• Zennube (1965)
• The Octopus's Arms (1964)
• From the Hands of Those Girls (1964)
• Tourist Omer (1964)
• Powder Keg (1963)
• All Our Crime Is To Love (1963)
• Kamil Abi (1963)
• Fearless Bully (1963)
• Temem Bilakis (1963)
• We Married By Force (1963)
• A World to Us (1962)
• Autumn Leaves (1962)
• Give Your Hand Istanbul (1962)
• Allah Punisher Versin Osman Bey (1961)
• The Guns Talk (1961)
• When the Hour of Love Comes (1961)
• Cumba to Rumbaya (1961)
• Wanderer Mustafa (1961)
• Sepetcioglu (1961)
• My life is sacrificed for you (1959)
• The Kalpaklılar (1959)
• Devil's Maya (1959)
• Lonely Wharf (1959)
• Emerald (1959)
• The Rebel Son (1958)
• A Driver's Secret Book (1958)
• It is My Right to Live (1958)
• White Gold (1957)
• The Camellia Woman (1957)