[2] Beşikçioğlu attended İzmir Private Turkish College and Mehmet Seyfi Eraltay High School after which he studied at the Hacettepe University State Conservatory.

[3] He has acted in a number of films such as Eve Giden Yol 1914, Barda, Hayat Var, Kurtlar Vadisi Filistin and the Golden Bear winning Bal.

Erdal Beşikçioğlu won the Golden Orange for Best Actor for his role in Behzat Ç.: Seni Kalbime Gömdüm.

[4] He is brilliant in the TV series 46 as Dr, Murat Gurnay, in a black comedy take on the Jekyll and Hyde story alternately dark and menacing and then playful and sensitive.

In the 2024 local elections in Turkey, he became the mayoral candidate for the Republican People's Party in Etimesgut, Ankara Province.