Turhan Bey

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.

  • Title: Turhan Bey
  • Popularity: 2.501
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1922-03-30
  • Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
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  • Also Known As: Turhan Gilbert Selahattin Şahultavi, The Turkish Delight
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Turhan Bey Movies

  • 1994
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    Possessed by the Night

    Possessed by the Night

    4.6 1994 HD

    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...

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  • 1943
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    Background to Danger

    Background to Danger

    6.6 1943 HD

    An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.

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  • 1942
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    The Mummy's Tomb

    The Mummy's Tomb

    5.7 1942 HD

    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...

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  • 1943
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    Crazy House

    Crazy House

    5 1943 HD

    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...

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  • 1948
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    The Amazing Mr. X

    The Amazing Mr. X

    6.2 1948 HD

    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...

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  • 1942
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    Arabian Nights

    Arabian Nights

    5.9 1942 HD

    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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  • 1944
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    Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

    Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

    6.2 1944 HD

    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...

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  • 1941
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    The Gay Falcon

    The Gay Falcon

    6.2 1941 HD

    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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  • 1941
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    Footsteps in the Dark

    Footsteps in the Dark

    6.9 1941 HD

    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...

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  • 1944
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    The Climax

    The Climax

    5.4 1944 HD

    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...

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  • 1941
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    Shadows on the Stairs

    Shadows on the Stairs

    5.4 1941 HD

    Occupants of a London boarding house become suspects as a string of murders are discovered.

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  • 1948
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    Parole, Inc.

    Parole, Inc.

    4.6 1948 HD

    A federal agent's life is in danger when he's exposed while investigating a parole scheme.

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  • 1942
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    Dead End Kids Go To War

    Dead End Kids Go To War

    1 1942 HD

    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...

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  • 1943
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    The Mad Ghoul

    The Mad Ghoul

    6 1943 HD

    A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul as...

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  • 2007
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    Hollywood Chinese

    Hollywood Chinese

    1 2007 HD

    Hollywood Chinese is a captivating look at cinema history through the lens of the Chinese American experience. Directed by triple Sundance...

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  • 2020
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    The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey

    The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey

    2 2020 HD

    Joan Crawford's close-up in Humoresque. Michelangelo's David and Boticelli's "Birth of Venus". Stendhal was overwhelmed by the cultural...

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  • 1944
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    Dragon Seed

    Dragon Seed

    6.4 1944 HD

    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...

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  • 1942
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    Destination Unknown

    Destination Unknown

    6 1942 HD

    Foreign spies and police pursue an attractive Dutch spy throughout Peking.

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  • 1945
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    Sudan

    Sudan

    6.3 1945 HD

    A desert pickpocket, his sidekick, and an escaped slave help an incognito queen in danger.

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  • 1943
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    White Savage

    White Savage

    5.2 1943 HD

    A native boy plays Cupid for a shark fisherman and a South Sea Islands princess.

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  • 1946
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    Night in Paradise

    Night in Paradise

    4 1946 HD

    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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  • 1942
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    Drums of the Congo

    Drums of the Congo

    1 1942 HD

    A safari sets out to find a meteorite that fell in the African jungle.

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  • 1942
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    Danger in the Pacific

    Danger in the Pacific

    6 1942 HD

    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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  • 1948
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    Adventures of Casanova

    Adventures of Casanova

    5 1948 HD

    Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been murdered, returns to Palermo and engages in...

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  • 1995
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    The Skateboard Kid II

    The Skateboard Kid II

    2.4 1995 HD

    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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  • 1949
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    Song of India

    Song of India

    4.7 1949 HD

    Jungle adventure drama about a young man and his wild animal friends attempting to thwart a government-approved hunting expedition.

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  • 1953
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    Prisoners of the Casbah

    Prisoners of the Casbah

    5.4 1953 HD

    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...

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  • 1945
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    Frisco Sal

    Frisco Sal

    4 1945 HD

    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...

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  • 1947
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    Out of the Blue

    Out of the Blue

    6.4 1947 HD

    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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  • 1941
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    Raiders of the Desert

    Raiders of the Desert

    1 1941 HD

    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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  • 1941
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    Burma Convoy

    Burma Convoy

    1 1941 HD

    A truck convoy traveling the Burma Road is menaced by a group of smugglers.

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  • 1942
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    Bombay Clipper

    Bombay Clipper

    5.5 1942 HD

    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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  • 1944
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    Bowery to Broadway

    Bowery to Broadway

    1 1944 HD

    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...

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  • 1942
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    Unseen Enemy

    Unseen Enemy

    1 1942 HD

    The Unseen Enemy in this wartime meller is Nick (Leo Carrillo), the outwardly effusive manager of a San Francisco waterfront café. To make...

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  • 1942
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    Junior G-Men of the Air

    Junior G-Men of the Air

    6 1942 HD

    A group of street kids battle a terrorist gang led by a Japanese spy.

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  • 1995
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    Virtual Combat

    Virtual Combat

    4.7 1995 HD

    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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  • 1942
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    The Falcon Takes Over

    The Falcon Takes Over

    6 1942 HD

    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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  • 1943
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    The Adventures of Smilin' Jack

    The Adventures of Smilin' Jack

    5 1943 HD

    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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  • 1998
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    Universal Horror

    Universal Horror

    7.2 1998 HD

    A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.

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  • 2015
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    Johnny Walker

    Johnny Walker

    1 2015 HD

    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....

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  • 1944
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    Twenty Years After

    Twenty Years After

    6 1944 HD

    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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  • 1943
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    Captive Wild Woman

    Captive Wild Woman

    5.2 1943 HD

    An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it...

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  • 2000
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    The Opera Ghost: A Phantom Unmasked

    The Opera Ghost: A Phantom Unmasked

    8 2000 HD

    A documentary from Universal about their Phantom of the Opera movies.

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  • 1994
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    Healer

    Healer

    1 1994 HD

    Old-aged and ailing Russian immigrant, Igor Vostovich, affects the lives of all those he meets in a retirement town.

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  • 1953
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    Stolen Identity

    Stolen Identity

    4.6 1953 HD

    A jealous musician kills his wife and frames a cab driver.

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  • 1993
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    seaQuest DSV

    seaQuest DSV

    7 1993 HD

    In the early 21st century, mankind has colonized the oceans. The United Earth Oceans Organization enlists Captain Nathan Bridger and the submarine...

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  • 1995
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    VR.5

    VR.5

    6.7 1995 HD

    VR.5 is an American television program originally broadcast on the Fox network from March 10, 1995 to May 12, 1995. Ten of its thirteen episodes were...

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  • 1994
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    Babylon 5

    Babylon 5

    8.054 1994 HD

    Babylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, its goal is to maintain peace among...

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  • 1997
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    The Visitor

    The Visitor

    6 1997 HD

    The Visitor is a science fiction television series created by Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin which aired on Fox from 1997–1998. It starred...

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  • 1994
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    Babylon 5

    Babylon 5

    8.054 1994 HD

    Babylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, its goal is to maintain peace among...

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  • 1984
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    Murder, She Wrote

    Murder, She Wrote

    7.576 1984 HD

    An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

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