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: Acting

Born: İzmir, Turkey, 1954-06-06

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1986	Half Moon Street	First Arab	50
2	1987	Ishtar	Guerrilla leader	45
3	1990	Ölürayak	Ömer	0
4	1991	Cloud in Love	Atila	80
5	1992	Two Women		35
6	1993	Amerikalı		47
7	1996	The 80th Step	Savcı	0
8	1996	Istanbul Beneath My Wings	Evliya Çelebi	66
9	1997	Sawdust Tales	Aaron	54
10	1997	Nihavend Mucize	Erol	43
11	1997	Innocence	Bekir	77
12	1999	Last Harem	Abdülhamit II	56
13	2000	Güle Güle	Zinnur	69
14	2000	Beans	Bilge Dede	73
15	2000	Elephants and Grass	Sabit Üzücü	64
16	2002	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert	Col. Ismet Bay	51
17	2002	Buffalo Soldiers	The Turk	63
18	2003	The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World	King Hattuþili III	63
19	2004	Where's Firuze?	Hayri Kalıpçı	71
20	2004	Disappeared	Inspector Yilmaz	35
21	2005	Robbery Alla Turca	Seçkin Doruk	46
22	2006	Killing the Shadows	Karagöz	70
23	2006	15 Minutes Over Low Heat	Muhtar	59
24	2007	Police	Musa Rami	67
25	2008	Cars of the Revolution	Necip	77
26	2008	A Son of the Sun	Alper Canan	65
27	2009	7 Husbands for Hurmuz	Cebrail	59
28	2010	Five Minarets in New York	Hacı	55
29	2011	Çanakkale Çocukları	Kasim	28
30	2011	7		56
31	2011	W.E.	Al Fayed	64
32		Beneath the Hagia Sophia	Narrator	0
33	2009	The International	Ahmet Sunay	62
34	2012	Antonius and Cleopatra	Antonius	80
35	2013	The Reluctant Fundamentalist	Nazmi Kemal	66
36	2014	Winter Sleep	Aydın	75
37	2014	Rosewater	Baba Akbar	65
38	2014	Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük Suyu	Evliya Çelebi (voice)	57
39	2014	A Long Cold Winter		80
40	2016	Ben-Hur	Simonides	57
41	2017	The Last Schnitzel	The President	68
42	2017	The Ottoman Lieutenant	Khalil Bey	61
43	2017	The Bank of Broken Hearts	Yusuf Yağmur	66
44	2017	Trendy	Hasan	70
45	2017	Cingöz Recai	Başkomiser Mehmet Rıza	42
46	2017	Shelter	Ahmet	55
47	2017	Forget About Nick	Nick	56
48	2018	Halloween	Dr. Sartain	66
49	2019	Noah Land	Ibrahim	69
50	2020	Leyla Everlasting	Adem	38
51	2021	Stuck Apart	Erbil	61
52	2024	Maria	Aristotle Onassis	67

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1981	Bergerac	Ahmed	65
2	1984	The Bill		66
3	1985	EastEnders	Mehmet Osman	41
4	1985	Murder of a Moderate Man		0
5	1987	Ateşten Günler	Ahmet Rıfkı	80
6	1987	Gecenin Öteki Yüzü		0
7	1993	Son Söz Sevginin		0
8	1994	Gülşen Abi	Abidin Özbidin / Gülşen Abla	73
9	1998	Eyvah Babam	Sedat Çolak	0
10	2000	Eyvah Kızım Büyüdü	Sedat Çolak	45
11	2001	Running in the Dark	Ali	68
12	2001	Cesur Kuşku	Cesur	85
13	2001	Sweet Life	İhsan Yıldırım	78
14	2002	Spooks	Emre Celenk	76
15	2004	Yes, Minister	Samim Bayraktar	0
16	2005	Yine de Aşığım	Ali	0
17	2007	Sevgili Dünürüm	Ahmet	55
18	2008	Nerede Kalmıştık	Ateş	0
19	2009	Sıkı Dostlar	Hikmet	60
20	2009	Ezel	Kenan Birkan	84
21	2010	Cuma'ya Kalsa	Cuma	40
22	2011	İstanbul'un Altınları	Reşat Altın	65
23	2012	Acayip Hikayeler	Sinan (Gecenin Avcısı)	72
24	2012	Hayatımın Rolü	Müşfik/Yaşar	65
25	2013	Kaçak	Faysal Mengen	76
26	2017	Innocent	Cevdet Bayrakçı	77
27	2017	Black Letter	Oğuz Karahan	97
28	2018	Persona	Agâh Beyoğlu	81
29	2020	Alex Rider	Dr. Greif	78
30	2021	Şeref Bey	Şeref	73
31	2022	Baba	Emin Saruhanlı	43
32	2022	Wild Abandon	Berhudar	68
33	2022	Hot Skull	Haluk	60
34	2023	The Turkish Detective	Çetin İkmen	60
35	2024	The Veil	Mr. Demir	68