Trivia

As a young boy newly arrived in the US, Bey was introduced to Albert Einstein, as Bey's uncle was a mathematician who worked with Einstein. Bey and Einstein kept up a close friendship over the years.

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.

His Moslem father was a military attaché in the Turkish Embassy in Vienna who had lost his right arm in World War I. When his parents divorced, Turhan and his Jewish mother fled to America after Hitler's Austrian Anschluss, where they settled in Los Angeles.

His early interest in photography earned him a place with an archaeological expedition to Tibet, and ultimately led to his return to life in Vienna where he flourished as a fashion photographer.

At the height of his popularity, which came during World War II, he was known as "the Turkish delight".

Son of a Turkish father and Czechoslovakian-Jewish mother.

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.

Though his Babylon 5 (1993) character had no name other than "Centauri Emperor" when he appeared, it was later named Turhan, which is his first name.

He died only two days after his The Coming of Shadows (1995) co-star Michael O'Hare.