# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tamer-balc
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:47:50.644Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tamer-balc"
name: "Tamer Balcı"
slug: "tamer-balc"
description: "Tamer Balcı, also known as Toma Balcı, was a Turkish sportsman and film actor of Greek descent. Balcı is considered to be the best hammer thrower of the country from 1940 to 1955 as he set the national record 11 times and was a 15-time national champion. He was a non-starter in the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics while representing Turkey. He started his acting career in 1951 and appeared in 24 movies, including as Tarzan in Tarzan İstanbul'da (1952)."
tagline: "Turkish actor (1918–1993)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/bVprFyrhpbIJFufpST7SyLSiswP.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1918-02-12"
deathDate: "1993-04-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.08
  momentum:             19.50171821305842
  historical:           7.481858666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0049597/"
    handle:    "nm0049597"
sources:
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamer_Balci"
    title: "Tamer Balci"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%89"
    title: "تامير بالسى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%DB%8C"
    title: "تامر بالجی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan_Toma"
    title: "Tarzan Toma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%98%CF%89%CE%BC%CE%AC%CF%82_%CE%92%CE%B1%CE%BB%CF%84%CE%B6%CE%AE%CF%82"
    title: "Θωμάς Βαλτζής"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamer_Balc%C4%B1"
    title: "Tamer Balcı"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%DB%8C"
    title: "تامر بالجی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamer_Balc%C4%B1"
    title: "Tamer Balcı"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7681140"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1322994"
    title: "Tamer Balcı"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump