Haluk Bilginer
June 5, 1954 (71 years old) in İzmir, Turkey
Nihat Haluk Bilginer (born 5 June 1954) is a Turkish actor. In addition to his acting career in Turkey, he has also worked in the United Kingdom and remains best known for his role as Mehmet Osman in the television soap opera EastEnders during the 1980s. He has also starred in Hollywood movies as a minor actor. He played a villainous guerrilla leader in the 1987 comedy film Ishtar and a Turkish Mafioso in the 2001 dark comedy film Buffalo Soldiers. In 2018, he played Doctor Sartain in Halloween and in 2023 he starred as the lead in the TV series The Turkish Detective. For his role in Şahsiyet (2018), Bilginer won the Best Actor award at the 47th International Emmy Awards.
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- 2025 · Sekizinci Aile as
- 2025 · Soyut Dışavurumcu Bir Dostluğun Anatomisi Veyahut Yan Yana as Refik
- 2025 · Lovers & Liars as Kadir
- 2024 · Maria as Aristotle Onassis
- 2024 · The Veil as Mr. Demir
- 2023 · The Turkish Detective as Çetin İkmen
- 2022 · Hot Skull as Haluk
- 2022 · Wild Abandon as Berhudar
- 2022 · Baba as Emin Saruhanlı
- 2021 · Şeref Bey as Şeref
- 2020 · Alex Rider as Dr. Greif
- 2018 · Halloween as Dr. Sartain
- 2018 · Persona as Agâh Beyoğlu
- 2017 · Forget About Nick as Nick
- 2017 · Shelter as Ahmet
- 2017 · Cingöz Recai as Başkomiser Mehmet Rıza
- 2017 · The Bank of Broken Hearts as Yusuf Yağmur
- 2017 · The Ottoman Lieutenant as Khalil Bey
- 2017 · The Last Schnitzel as The President
- 2017 · Innocent as Cevdet Bayrakçı
- 2016 · Ben-Hur as Simonides
- 2014 · A Long Cold Winter as
- 2014 · Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük Suyu as Evliya Çelebi (voice)
- 2014 · Rosewater as Baba Akbar
- 2014 · Winter Sleep as Aydın
- 2013 · Kaçak as Faysal Mengen
- 2013 · The Reluctant Fundamentalist as Nazmi Kemal
- 2012 · Acayip Hikayeler as Sinan (Gecenin Avcısı)
- 2011 · W.E. as Al Fayed
- 2011 · Çanakkale Çocukları as Kasim
- 2010 · Five Minarets in New York as Hacı
- 2009 · Ezel as Kenan Birkan
- 2009 · The International as Ahmet Sunay
- 2004 · Disappeared as Inspector Yilmaz
- 2003 · The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World as King Hattuþili III
- 2002 · Spooks as Emre Celenk
- 2001 · Sweet Life as İhsan Yıldırım
- 2000 · Elephants and Grass as Sabit Üzücü
- 2000 · Güle Güle as Zinnur
- 1999 · The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert as Col. Ismet Bay
- 1994 · Gülşen Abi as Abidin Özbidin / Gülşen Abla
- 1987 · Ishtar as Guerrilla leader
- 1985 · EastEnders as Mehmet Osman
- 1984 · The Bill as
- 1981 · Bergerac as Ahmed
- Future · Beneath the Hagia Sophia as Narrator
- 2021 · Stuck Apart as Erbil
- 2020 · Leyla Everlasting as Adem
- 2019 · Noah Land as Ibrahim
- 2017 · Trendy as Hasan
- 2017 · Black Letter as Oğuz Karahan
- 2012 · Hayatımın Rolü as Müşfik/Yaşar
- 2012 · Antonius and Cleopatra as Antonius
- 2011 · İstanbul'un Altınları as Reşat Altın
- 2011 · 7 as
- 2010 · Cuma'ya Kalsa as Cuma
- 2009 · 7 Husbands for Hurmuz as Cebrail
- 2009 · Sıkı Dostlar as Hikmet
- 2008 · A Son of the Sun as Alper Canan
- 2008 · Cars of the Revolution as Necip
- 2008 · Nerede Kalmıştık as Ateş
- 2007 · Sevgili Dünürüm as Ahmet
- 2007 · Police as Musa Rami
- 2006 · 15 Minutes Over Low Heat as Muhtar
- 2006 · Killing the Shadows as Karagöz
- 2005 · Yine de Aşığım as Ali
- 2005 · Robbery Alla Turca as Seçkin Doruk
- 2004 · Yes, Minister as Samim Bayraktar
- 2004 · Where's Firuze? as Hayri Kalıpçı
- 2002 · Buffalo Soldiers as The Turk
- 2001 · Cesur Kuşku as Cesur
- 2001 · Running in the Dark as Ali
- 2000 · Beans as Bilge Dede
- 2000 · Eyvah Kızım Büyüdü as Sedat Çolak
- 1999 · Last Harem as Abdülhamit II
- 1998 · Eyvah Babam as Sedat Çolak
- 1997 · Innocence as Bekir
- 1997 · Sawdust Tales as Aaron
- 1997 · Nihavend Mucize as Erol
- 1996 · Istanbul Beneath My Wings as Evliya Çelebi
- 1996 · The 80th Step as Savcı
- 1993 · Amerikalı as
- 1993 · Sıcağı Sıcağına as Sunucu
- 1993 · Borsa as Reha Çalık
- 1993 · Son Söz Sevginin as
- 1992 · Two Women as
- 1991 · Cloud in Love as Atila
- 1990 · Time of Death as Ömer
- 1987 · Gecenin Öteki Yüzü as
- 1987 · Ateşten Günler as Ahmet Rıfkı
- 1986 · Half Moon Street as First Arab
- 1985 · Murder of a Moderate Man as