Haluk Bilginer
Born: 1954-06-05
• 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
Soyut Dışavurumcu Bir Dostluğun Anatomisi Veyahut Yan Yana
Maria
Stuck Apart
Leyla Everlasting
Noah Land
Halloween
Forget About Nick
Shelter
Cingöz Recai
Trendy
The Bank of Broken Hearts
The Ottoman Lieutenant
The Last Schnitzel
Ben-Hur
A Long Cold Winter
Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük Suyu
Rosewater
Winter Sleep
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Antonius and Cleopatra
W.E.
7
Çanakkale Çocukları
Five Minarets in New York
7 Husbands for Hurmuz
The Watercolor-Suluboya
The International
A Son of the Sun
Cars of the Revolution
Police
15 Minutes Over Low Heat
Killing the Shadows
Robbery Alla Turca
Disappeared
Where's Firuze?
The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World
Buffalo Soldiers
Elephants and Grass
Beans
Güle Güle
Last Harem
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert
Innocence
Sawdust Tales
Nihavend Mucize
Istanbul Beneath My Wings
The 80th Step
Amerikalı
Two Women
Cloud in Love
Time of Death
Ishtar
Half Moon Street
No Image
Beneath the Hagia Sophia