Haluk Bilginer
Acting
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.
As actor 99
EastEnders
1985
Spooks
2002
Sweet Life
2001
Bergerac
1981
The Bill
1984
Ezel
2009
Alex Rider
2020
Halloween
2018
Hayatımın Rolü
2012
The Eighth Family
2025
The Turkish Detective
2023
Sıcağı Sıcağına
1993
Gülşen Abi
1994
Ben-Hur
2016
Maria
2024
Lovers & Liars
2025
The International
2009
Yes, Minister
2004
Hot Skull
2022
The Veil
2024
YANLIŞ İÇERİK
2000
Persona
2018
Laf Lafı Açıyor
1991
Kaçak
2013
Eyvah Kızım Büyüdü
2000
Baba
2022
Nerede Kalmıştık
2008
Sevgili Dünürüm
2007
Ateşten Günler
1987
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2013
Buffalo Soldiers
2002
Two Women
1992
Sıkı Dostlar
2009
Wild Abandon
2022
Cingöz Recai
2017
W.E.
2011
Gecenin Öteki Yüzü
1987
Innocent
2017
A Long Cold Winter
2014
Running in the Dark
2001
Rosewater
2014
The Ottoman Lieutenant
2017
Yine de Aşığım
2005
Komedi Türkiye
2015
Yan Yana
2025
Winter Sleep
2014
Ishtar
1987
Acayip Hikayeler
2012
The Bank of Broken Hearts
2017
Şeref Bey
2021
A Son of the Sun
2008
Half Moon Street
1986
Son Söz Sevginin
1993
İstanbul'un Altınları
2011
The 80th Step
1996
Last Harem
1999
Cesur Kuşku
2001
Eyvah Babam
1998
Five Minarets in New York
2010
Cuma'ya Kalsa
2010
Innocence
1997
Borsa
1993
Black Letter
2017
Güneye Giderken
Stuck Apart
2021
Time of Death
1990
Killing the Shadows
2006
Beans
2000
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert
1999
Nihavend Mucize
1997
7 Husbands for Hurmuz
2009
Amerikalı
1993
Istanbul Beneath My Wings
1996
The Watercolor-Suluboya
2009
Shelter
2017
Çanakkale Çocukları
2011
Leyla Everlasting
2020
Forget About Nick
2017
Trendy
2017
The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World
2003
Antonius and Cleopatra
2012
Cars of the Revolution
2008
Disappeared
2004
The Strange Tale of Gustav Maier
Where's Firuze?
2004
Robbery Alla Turca
2005
Sawdust Tales
1997
7
2011
15 Minutes Over Low Heat
2006
Öldürme Üzerine - Acayip Hikayeler
2012
Elephants and Grass
2000
Cloud in Love
1991
Murder of a Moderate Man
1985
The Last Schnitzel
2017
Noah Land
2019
Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük Suyu
2014
Police
2007
Güle Güle
2000
Beneath the Hagia Sophia