Turhan Bey Overview:

Actor, Turhan Bey, was born Turhan Gilbert Selahattin Sahultavy on Mar 30, 1922 in Vienna, Austria. Bey died at the age of 90 on Sep 30, 2012 in Vienna, Austria .

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Lao Ta Tan - Eldest Son: [rhetorically] Do you not know that in a woman eagerness passes for weakness?


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End Narrator: So, behind these gates is buried the legend of a mortal who went beyond the realm of human powers and tampered with things no man should ever touch.


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Attended the Ben Bard's School of Dramatic Art in California in order to improve his English. He later enrolled at the Pasadena Playhouse where he was discovered by Warner Bros, was given the new name of Turhan Bey, and placed into films starting in 1941.

His Moslem father was a member of the Turkish Embassy in Vienna who lost his right arm in World War I. The family fled to America after Hitler's Austrian Anschluss and settled in Los Angeles.

Once seriously involved with Lana Turner, he was provoked into a fight with her ex-hubby at the time, brief 1940s actor Stephen Crane. Shortly afterward, he severed the relationship.

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