Haluk Bilginer
Actor
Born June 5, 1954 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.
Filmography
The Eighth Family
Yan Yana
Refik
Lovers & Liars
Kadir
Maria
Aristotle Onassis
The Veil
Mr. Demir
The Turkish Detective
Çetin İkmen
El-Gomgoma El-Sakhena
Haluk
Wild Abandon
Berhudar
Baba
Emin Saruhanlı
Stuck Apart
Erbil
Şeref Bey
Şeref
Leyla Everlasting
Adem
Alex Rider
Dr. Greif
Noah Land
Ibrahim
Halloween
Dr. Sartain
Persona
Agâh Beyoğlu
Forget About Nick
Nick
Shelter
Ahmet
Cingöz Recai
Başkomiser Mehmet Rıza
Trendy
Hasan
The Bank of Broken Hearts
Yusuf Yağmur
The Ottoman Lieutenant
Khalil Bey
Black Letter
Oğuz Karahan
The Last Schnitzel
The President
Innocent
Cevdet Bayrakçı
Ben-Hur
Simonides
A Long Cold Winter
Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük Suyu
Evliya Çelebi (voice)
Rosewater
Baba Akbar
Winter Sleep
Aydın
Kaçak
Faysal Mengen
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Nazmi Kemal
Hayatımın Rolü
Müşfik/Yaşar
Acayip Hikayeler
Sinan (Gecenin Avcısı)
Antonius and Cleopatra
Antonius
W.E.
Al Fayed
İstanbul'un Altınları
Reşat Altın
7
Çanakkale Çocukları
Kasim
Cuma'ya Kalsa
Cuma
Five Minarets in New York
Hacı
7 Husbands for Hurmuz
Cebrail
The Watercolor-Suluboya
Ezel
Kenan Birkan
Sıkı Dostlar
Hikmet
The International
Ahmet Sunay
A Son of the Sun
Alper Canan
Cars of the Revolution
Necip
Nerede Kalmıştık
Ateş
Sevgili Dünürüm
Ahmet
Police
Musa Rami
15 Minutes Over Low Heat
Muhtar
Killing the Shadows
Karagöz
Yine de Aşığım
Ali
Robbery Alla Turca
Seçkin Doruk
Yes, Minister
Samim Bayraktar
Disappeared
Inspector Yilmaz
Where's Firuze?
Hayri Kalıpçı
The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World
King Hattuþili III
Buffalo Soldiers
The Turk
Spooks
Emre Celenk
Sweet Life
İhsan Yıldırım
Cesur Kuşku
Cesur
Running in the Dark
Ali
Elephants and Grass
Sabit Üzücü
Beans
Bilge Dede
Eyvah Kızım Büyüdü
Sedat Çolak
YANLIŞ İÇERİK
Güle Güle
Zinnur
Last Harem
Abdülhamit II
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert
Col. Ismet Bay
Eyvah Babam
Sedat Çolak
Innocence
Bekir
Sawdust Tales
Aaron
Nihavend Mucize
Erol
Istanbul Beneath My Wings
Evliya Çelebi
The 80th Step
Savcı
Gülşen Abi
Abidin Özbidin / Gülşen Abla
Amerikalı
Sıcağı Sıcağına
Sunucu
Borsa
Reha Çalık
Two Women
Laf Lafı Açıyor
Cloud in Love
Atila
Time of Death
Ömer
Gecenin Öteki Yüzü
Ishtar
Guerrilla leader
Ateşten Günler
Ahmet Rıfkı
Half Moon Street
First Arab
EastEnders
Mehmet Osman
The Bill
Bergerac
Ahmed