'', playing the role of Monsieur Jourdain Dormen was born on 5 April 1928. His father Sait Ömer Bey was a
Cypriot businessman, while his mother Nimet Rüştü Hanım was the daughter of a
pasha from
Istanbul. He finished his education at the
Robert College. At the age of eight, his left foot was injured due to an accident. Dormen later directed two cinematic movies:
Bozuk Düzen and
Güzel Bir Gün İçin. Alongside the Dormen Theater squad, the likes of
Belgin Doruk,
Ekrem Bora, Nurhan Nur,
Müşfik Kenter, and Nedret Güvenç appeared in these movies. The two movies received seven awards in total at the Golden Orange Film Festival in 1966 and 1967, but they weren't commercially successful in the box office. and
Popstar Türkiye. He then joined
Milliyet as a journalist and contributed to the column
Variations. His career in
Milliyet lasted for eight years. In 1981, he met Egemen Bostancı. Later, he wrote and directed the musicals
Hisseli Harikalar Kumpanyası and
Şen Sazın Bülbülleri. In 1984, with Egemen Bostancı's insistence, he re-established the Dormen Theater again and the organization continued to operate for 17 years. In the same years, he brought
The Luxurious Life back to stage at the
Istanbul City Theatres with
Gencay Gürün serving as the producer. He later directed
The Luxurious Life for the İzmir and Mersin Opera and the Eskişehir City Theater. In 2002, he closed his theater due to economic reasons but continued to act and directed in various theaters. Haldun Dormen wrote more than nine books, including four biographies ("
Sürç-ü Lisan Ettikse", "
Antrakt", "
İkinci Perde", "
Nerede Kalmıştık"), and two plays. His play
Kantocu, which sheds light on the experiences of female stage artists during the foundation years of the Republic, was staged in Istanbul,
Eskişehir, and
Ankara. Dormen married
Betül Mardin, a world-renowned figure in public relations in 1959, and a son named Ömer was born from this marriage that lasted eight years. Dormen, as the art consultant of the Sahne Tozu Theater in
İzmir, staged various plays in their salon. (Sahne Tozu Theater Haldun Dormen Stage in İzmir). He also gave musical lessons at the Sahne Tozu Theater Nişantaşı Academy. Dormen died at a hospital in Istanbul, where he was treated, on 21 January 2026, at the age of 97. He was buried at the
Edirnekapı Martyr's Cemetery following a memorial ceremony at the
Harbiye Muhsin Ertuğrul Stage and the religious service at the
Teşvikiye Mosque. == Filmography ==