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