Kemal Sunal

Kemal Sunal 11 November 1944 3 July 2000 was a Turkish actor and comedian With Hababam Sınıfı Kapıcılar Kralı and Davaro Sunal gained large popularity amongst Turkish cinema goers and was famed for his character Şaban a role he frequently played Kemal Sunal graduated from Vefa Lisesi Vefa High School In his early ages he started pursuing what was to become a long and successful acting career in minor roles in various theatres For a brief period he worked in the Kenterler Theatre and debuted in the play Zoraki Tabip He was later transferred to the Devekuşu Kabare Theatre where he performed his acting He was recognized as a real talent and started receiving offers for movies with larger budgets and a more famous cast His first bigger role was in the film Tatlı Dillim directed by Ertem Eğilmez In a matter of years Sunal costarred alongside Halit Akçatepe Şener Şen and Münir Özkul Perhaps the most famous of all his parts was when he played in Hababam Sınıfı The Outrageous Class and was known by the name of Şaban but most of his classmates just called him İnek nerd Şaban İnek Şaban was constantly bullied and humiliated by his friends but this never kept him from thinking the unthinkable like digging a tunnel to escape school grounds which later turned out to lead to the viceprincipals office or smoking in the school attic The character was so pure and so fixed in the memories of the Turkish people it was never replaced by another actor in the recent reshootings of Hababam Sınıfı most probably as a sign of respect to Sunal