Haluk Bilginer
Biography
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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Acting History
2025
Sekizinci Aile
2025Yan Yana as Refik
2025Lovers & Liars as Kadir
2024Maria as Aristotle Onassis
2024The Veil as Mr. Demir
2023The Turkish Detective as Çetin İkmen
2022Hot Skull as Haluk
2022Wild Abandon as Berhudar
2022Baba as Emin Saruhanlı
2021Stuck Apart as Erbil
2021Şeref Bey as Şeref
2020Leyla Everlasting as Adem
2020Alex Rider as Dr. Greif
2019Noah Land as Ibrahim
2018Halloween as Dr. Sartain
2018Persona as Agâh Beyoğlu
2017Forget About Nick as Nick
2017Shelter as Ahmet
2017Cingöz Recai as Başkomiser Mehmet Rıza
2017Trendy as Hasan
2017The Bank of Broken Hearts as Yusuf Yağmur
2017The Ottoman Lieutenant as Khalil Bey
2017Black Letter as Oğuz Karahan
2017The Last Schnitzel as The President
2017Innocent as Cevdet Bayrakçı
2016Ben-Hur as Simonides
2014A Long Cold Winter
2014Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük Suyu as Evliya Çelebi (voice)
2014Rosewater as Baba Akbar
2014Winter Sleep as Aydın
2013Kaçak as Faysal Mengen
2013The Reluctant Fundamentalist as Nazmi Kemal
2012Hayatımın Rolü as Müşfik/Yaşar
2012Acayip Hikayeler as Sinan (Gecenin Avcısı)
2012Antonius and Cleopatra as Antonius
2011W.E. as Al Fayed
2011İstanbul'un Altınları as Reşat Altın
20117
2011Çanakkale Çocukları as Kasim
2010Cuma'ya Kalsa as Cuma
2010Five Minarets in New York as Hacı
20097 Husbands for Hurmuz as Cebrail
2009Ezel as Kenan Birkan
2009Sıkı Dostlar as Hikmet
2009The International as Ahmet Sunay
2008A Son of the Sun as Alper Canan
2008Cars of the Revolution as Necip
2008Nerede Kalmıştık as Ateş
2007Sevgili Dünürüm as Ahmet
2007Police as Musa Rami
200615 Minutes Over Low Heat as Muhtar
2006Killing the Shadows as Karagöz
2005Yine de Aşığım as Ali
2005Robbery Alla Turca as Seçkin Doruk
2004Yes, Minister as Samim Bayraktar
2004Disappeared as Inspector Yilmaz
2004Where's Firuze? as Hayri Kalıpçı
2003The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World as King Hattuþili III
2002Buffalo Soldiers as The Turk
2002Spooks as Emre Celenk
2001Sweet Life as İhsan Yıldırım
2001Cesur Kuşku as Cesur
2001Running in the Dark as Ali
2000Elephants and Grass as Sabit Üzücü
2000Beans as Bilge Dede
2000Eyvah Kızım Büyüdü as Sedat Çolak
2000Güle Güle as Zinnur
1999Last Harem as Abdülhamit II
1999The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert as Col. Ismet Bay
1998Eyvah Babam as Sedat Çolak
1997Innocence as Bekir
1997Sawdust Tales as Aaron
1997Nihavend Mucize as Erol
1996Istanbul Beneath My Wings as Evliya Çelebi
1996The 80th Step as Savcı
1994Gülşen Abi as Abidin Özbidin / Gülşen Abla
1993Amerikalı
1993Sıcağı Sıcağına as Sunucu
1993Borsa as Reha Çalık
1993Son Söz Sevginin
1992Two Women
1991Cloud in Love as Atila
1990Time of Death as Ömer
1987Gecenin Öteki Yüzü
1987Ishtar as Guerrilla leader
1987Ateşten Günler as Ahmet Rıfkı
1986Half Moon Street as First Arab
1985Murder of a Moderate Man
1985EastEnders as Mehmet Osman
1984The Bill
1981Bergerac as Ahmed
—Beneath the Hagia Sophia as Narrator