Turhan Bey
Turhan Bey (born Turhan Gilbert Selahattin Sahultavy; 30 March 1922 – 30 September 2012) was an Austrian-born actor of Turkish and Czech Jewish origin. Turhan was active in Hollywood from 1941 to 1953. He was dubbed "The Turkish Delight" by his fans. After his return to Austria, he pursued careers as a photographer and stage director. Returning to Hollywood after a 40-year hiatus, he made several guest appearances in 1990s television series including SeaQuest DSV, Murder, She Wrote and Babylon 5 as well as a number of films. After retiring he appeared in a number of documentaries, including a German-language documentary on his life.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.004 |
| Birthday | 1922-03-30 |
| Place of Birth | Vienna, Austria |
| Also Known As | Turhan Gilbert Selahattin Şahultavi, The Turkish Delight, |
1994
Possessed by the Night
4.6/19
A horror writer buys an odd looking mutant embryo creature, pickled in a jar, from a shop in Chinatown, hoping it will be a creative inspiration for h...
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Possessed by the Night
1943
Background to Danger
6.6/24
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
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Background to Danger
1942
The Mummy's Tomb
5.662/71
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian...
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The Mummy's Tomb
1943
Crazy House
5/3
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names eva...
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Crazy House
1948
The Amazing Mr. X
6.2/40
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark ma...
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The Amazing Mr. X
1942
Arabian Nights
5.9/48
Two half brothers battle each other for the power of the throne and the love of sensual, gorgeous dancing girl Scheherazade.
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Arabian Nights
1944
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
6.1/35
Orphaned as a young child and adopted by a band of notorious thieves, now-grown Ali Baba sets out to avenge his father’s murder, reclaim the royal thr...
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
1941
The Gay Falcon
6.2/22
Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along...
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The Gay Falcon
1941
Footsteps in the Dark
6.9/9
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of...
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Footsteps in the Dark
1944
The Climax
5.4/31
Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano when his jealousy drives him to the point of mad obs...
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The Climax
1941
Shadows on the Stairs
5.4/17
Occupants of a London boarding house become suspects as a string of murders are discovered.
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Shadows on the Stairs
1948
Parole, Inc.
4.6/10
A federal agent's life is in danger when he's exposed while investigating a parole scheme.
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Parole, Inc.
1942
Dead End Kids Go To War
0/0
The Dead End Kids join the war effort in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-Men of the Air. The fiendish Black Dragon Societ...
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Dead End Kids Go To War
1943
The Mad Ghoul
6/33
A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul as pa...
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The Mad Ghoul
2007
Hollywood Chinese
0/0
Hollywood Chinese is a captivating look at cinema history through the lens of the Chinese American experience. Directed by triple Sundance award-winni...
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Hollywood Chinese
2020
The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey
2/1
Joan Crawford's close-up in Humoresque. Michelangelo's David and Boticelli's "Birth of Venus". Stendhal was overwhelmed by the cultural overstimulatio...
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The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey
1944
Dragon Seed
6.4/14
The lives of a small Chinese village are turned Upside down when the Japanese invade it. An heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in a...
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Dragon Seed
1942
Destination Unknown
6/1
Foreign spies and police pursue an attractive Dutch spy throughout Peking.
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Destination Unknown
1945
Sudan
6.3/6
A desert pickpocket, his sidekick, and an escaped slave help an incognito queen in danger.
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Sudan
1942
Drums of the Congo
0/0
A safari sets out to find a meteorite that fell in the African jungle.
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Drums of the Congo
1946
Night in Paradise
4/1
Aesop of fable fame poses as an old man and woos away a princess who wants a king for his gold.
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Night in Paradise
1943
White Savage
5.2/6
A native boy plays Cupid for a shark fisherman and a South Sea Islands princess.
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White Savage
1942
Danger in the Pacific
6/1
Scientist-explorer David Lynd leaves wealthy bride-to-be June Claymore at the altar to join photographer Andy Parker and British secret service agent...
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Danger in the Pacific
1948
Adventures of Casanova
5/3
Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been murdered, returns to Palermo and engages in gueri...
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Adventures of Casanova
1995
The Skateboard Kid II
2.4/7
Take a roller coaster ride full of high octane adventure as 12 year old Sammy takes to the skies. With the help of a magical flying skateboard, Sammy...
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The Skateboard Kid II
1949
Song of India
4.7/3
Jungle adventure drama about a young man and his wild animal friends attempting to thwart a government-approved hunting expedition.
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Song of India
1953
Prisoners of the Casbah
5.4/4
A low-born thief loves a Moroccan Princess. She must marry to escape death at the hands of her enemies. The groom is able to wed or cast away his brid...
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Prisoners of the Casbah
1945
Frisco Sal
4/2
Sal comes to the Barbary Coast from New England to find out who murdered her brother. She gets a job signing in Dude's saloon, falls in love with Dude...
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Frisco Sal
1947
Out of the Blue
6.6/9
Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian...
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Out of the Blue
1941
Raiders of the Desert
0/0
Two American leave a ship where they had stowed away, in a Middle Eastern port and wind up in the fighting in a brutal civil war
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Raiders of the Desert
1941
Burma Convoy
0/0
A truck convoy traveling the Burma Road is menaced by a group of smugglers.
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Burma Convoy
1942
Unseen Enemy
0/0
The Unseen Enemy in this wartime meller is Nick (Leo Carrillo), the outwardly effusive manager of a San Francisco waterfront café. To make enough mone...
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Unseen Enemy
1944
Bowery to Broadway
0/0
Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway, but when one of them suddenly departs to work for a beautiful woman, a feud erup...
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Bowery to Broadway
1942
Bombay Clipper
5.5/2
Someone has absconded with $4,000,000 worth of diamonds, and that someone may very well be a passenger on the Bombay Clipper.
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Bombay Clipper
1942
Junior G-Men of the Air
6/1
A group of street kids battle a terrorist gang led by a Japanese spy.
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Junior G-Men of the Air
1995
Virtual Combat
4.7/19
Two Nevada border officers, Dave Quarry and John, amuse themselves off duty by honing their kick-boxing skills via virtual reality combat. Elsewhere,...
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Virtual Combat
1942
The Falcon Takes Over
6/25
While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him...
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The Falcon Takes Over
1943
The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
5/2
A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret tunnel passage between China and India.
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The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
1998
Universal Horror
7.2/18
A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.
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Universal Horror
2015
Johnny Walker
0/0
A washed up Hollywood director is trapped in a remote castle by his own fears until the arrival of a mysterious woman offers him possible salvation. I...
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Johnny Walker
1944
Twenty Years After
6/1
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
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Twenty Years After
1943
Captive Wild Woman
5.2/35
An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it cost...
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Captive Wild Woman
2000
The Opera Ghost: A Phantom Unmasked
8/3
A documentary from Universal about their Phantom of the Opera movies.
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The Opera Ghost: A Phantom Unmasked
1994
Healer
0/0
Old-aged and ailing Russian immigrant, Igor Vostovich, affects the lives of all those he meets in a retirement town.
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