Sabel Jameel

**Sabel Jameel** (サベル・ジャミール, *Saberu jamīru*, April 18, 1901; Antalya, Turkey - September 12, 1979; Istanbul {age 79} ) is a Turkish actor, former Red Army officer & businessman who participate in many Japanese films. he portrayed as a Russian officer, diplomat, Western civilian and Soviet judge council.

## Carreer

Born in Antalya, Ottoman Empire to a merchant family, Sabel studied Christianity and religions. When he was 6, his family moved to Istumbul where his father work for a shipping company. After the Great War broke out in 1914 and Turkey joined the Central Powers (German Empire & Austro-Hungarian Empire) Sabel's father joined the Turkish Army and served during the Caucasus Campaign against the Russians, the Gallipoli Campaign against the ANZACs & the Sinai and Palestine campaign against the British.

His mother bring Sabel to sign up at the Turkey Military Academy at the age of 16 and graduated in 1919 as an artillery lieutenant. As Turkish War of Independence began, his family fled to Odessa and then traveled to Moscow where Sabel devolved an interest of Marxism. in 1930, Sabel was convinced by his father to joined the Soviet Red Army and after a month of training at the Frunze Military Academy his application was granted, even though he was born Turkish, Sabel continued his duty as an officer. He speaks different languages including Russian and Turkish. As World War Two broke out in 1939, Sabel participate in the Soviet invasion of Poland, serving in the Soviet 6th Army. While stationed in Wytyczno, Sabel meet Polish stage performer named Sabina Posluszny (1904-1983) and the two married in 1940.

When the German Army launched Operation Barbarosa , he left his wife and family to reunited with his men of the 34th Army and fought at the Battle of Kiev and the First Battle of Kharkov, where Sabel was captured. While at Auschwitz as a laborer, Sabel befriended a Ukrainian doctor, Orest Andrijovych Derkach (1887-1958) whom he had meet while at Odessa as a child. In 1943, Sabel & Derkach (along with his soldiers & couple of civilians) fled by train as it headed to Leningrad as the Germans launched an all-out attack on the city. As he was promoted to Colonel, Sabel wrote a journal about his experience and as 1944 began, he command his platoons to attack the German-held territories during the Baltic Offensive and the Battle of Romania. During the Battle of Berlin in 1945, Sabel was wounded when a sniper rifle shot him in his right arm while leading his men in a street battle.

After the war in Europe was over and Nazi Germany was abolished, Sabel was ranked as Major General by Joseph Stalin and return to his family and his wife. In 1948, his father passed away from tuberculosis and his mother died from breast cancer a year later in 1949. Sabel's younger brother joined the KGB and his sister began her career as a painter. Retiring from the army in 1950, Sabel and Sabina moved back to Istanbul where he became a businessman for the Koç Holding Company. Then in 1953, Sabel visits Japan to sell automobile products to the other entrepreneurs where he meet filmmaker Mitsugi Ōkura to cast him as a foreigner and became the first actor to play as a Russian general Anatoly Mikhaylovich Stessel in Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War. He also plays in the Soviet Union judge in The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal, Russian representative in The Mysterians, Soviet defense general in Battle in Outer Space and American civilian in Mothra.

Sabel has been active as an actor from 1957 to 1973. Retiring from acting, he return to Turkey to lived peacefully with his wife and two children, Evren (1949-) and Hale (1951-). Sabel passed away in 1979 from heart failure at the age of 78. His wife would died from liver failure at 79 years old. He is survived by two children.

## Films

* Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War (1957) as Anatoly Mikhaylovich Stessel
* The Mysterians (1957) as Foreign reporter (uncredited)
* The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal (1959) as Ivan Michyevich Zaryanov
* Ankokugai no Kaoyaku (1959) as Casino Guest (uncredited)
* Battle in Outer Space (1959) as Representative of the Soviet Union (uncredited)
* Broken Blossoms (1959) as Soviet General Emin Igorevich
* Mothra (1961) as New Kirk Citizen (uncredited)
* You Can Succeed, Too (1964) as Foreign tourist (uncredited)
* The Green Slime (1968) as Medic doctor