1. Turhan Bey says it was Bard who helped come up with his stage name.
39 Facts About Turhan Bey
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Turhan Bey appeared in a number of films in small roles, usually playing someone sinister: Shadows on the Stairs, and Footsteps in the Dark with Errol Flynn.
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Turhan Bey moved to Universal, where he had small roles in Raiders of the Desert, and Burma Convoy.
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Turhan Bey went to RKO to appear in The Gay Falcon, the first in The Falcon series of B movies.
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Turhan Bey returned to Universal for a small role in Bombay Clipper, starring Montez and directed by John Rawlins.
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Turhan Bey had a slightly bigger part in Unseen Enemy, directed by Rawlins, playing a Japanese spy.
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Turhan Bey was in the serial Junior G-Men of the Air.
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Turhan Bey was in Drums of the Congo, then went back to RKO for The Falcon Takes Over, an adaptation of Farewell My Lovely.
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Turhan Bey played a South Sea islander in Danger in the Pacific and a Japanese officer in Destination Unknown.
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Turhan Bey had a role as an Egyptian follower of Kharis in The Mummy's Tomb with Lon Chaney Jr.
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Turhan Bey was in The Adventures of Smilin' Jack, then had his best chance to date with White Savage.
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Turhan Bey was receiving a lot of fan mail, and Universal began to build him into a star.
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Turhan Bey was top billed in the horror film The Mad Ghoul, with Evelyn Ankers.
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When Sabu enlisted in the army, Turhan Bey took his place in Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, a Technicolor spectacular with Montez and Hall directed by Lubin.
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Turhan Bey had a cameo in Universal's all-star Follow the Boys.
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Turhan Bey was meant to be reunited with Montez and Hall in Gypsy Wildcat when MGM borrowed him to play a Chinese in Dragon Seed starring Katharine Hepburn and Walter Huston.
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Back at Universal, Turhan Bey was the romantic male lead in the big-budget The Climax with Boris Karloff and Susanna Foster, an unsuccessful attempt to duplicate the success of Phantom of the Opera.
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Turhan Bey had a key role in the musical Bowery to Broadway, a vehicle for Jack Oakie.
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Turhan Bey was more comfortably cast in Sudan, with Montez and Hall.
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The Wanger film was Night in Paradise, with Turhan Bey playing Aesop opposite Merle Oberon for director Arthur Lubin.
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Turhan Bey admitted to often arriving late on set, something he later regretted.
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The movie was a box-office flop and damaged Turhan Bey's standing in Hollywood.
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That changed when Turkey declared war on Germany in February 1945, and in June, Turhan Bey was inducted into the army at Fort MacArthur.
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Turhan Bey served at Santa Ana Army Air Base for a time and performed in a version of Carmen at Fort Roberts.
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Turhan Bey was in the army for 18 months, which halted his career's momentum.
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When he got out, Universal offered him a film that Turhan Bey refused, and he was put on suspension.
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Turhan Bey followed it with the swashbuckler Adventures of Casanova, supporting Arturo de Cordova.
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Turhan Bey made the thriller The Amazing Mr X with Lynn Bari.
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Turhan Bey made Song of India at Columbia with Sabu and Gail Russell.
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Turhan Bey bought an interest in a cafe in Palm Springs.
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Turhan Bey returned to Hollywood and was cast in Sam Katzman's Prisoners of the Casbah, billed after Gloria Grahame and Cesar Romero.
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Turhan Bey announced he had set up his own production company, Metropolitan Pictures, and wanted to produce but not star in Dikov, a film about a boy and his bird.
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Turhan Bey returned to the United States in the early 1990s.
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Turhan Bey appeared in episodes of SeaQuest 2032, Murder, She Wrote, VR.
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Turhan Bey guest-starred in two episodes of the TV series Babylon 5: first as the emperor of the Centauri Republic, and later as a Minbari Ranger named Turval.
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Turhan Bey was in the Fred Olen Ray thriller Possessed by the Night, the drama Healer, The Skateboard Kid 2, and Grid Runners.
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Turhan Bey was romantically linked with Lana Turner at one time.
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Turhan Bey was cremated at Feuerhalle Simmering, where his ashes are buried next to his mother's.
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Maxwell Smart claims that after appearing in an unspecified movie involving mummies, Turhan Bey was cursed, and his career never recovered.