About
Haluk Bilginer
Overview
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 |
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| 2024 | Maria | Actor | Aristotle Onassis | 59 Average |
| 2023 | The Turkish Detective | Actor | Çetin İkmen | 69 Fair |
| 2022 | Wild Abandon | Actor | Berhudar | 69 Fair |
| 2022 | Baba | Actor | Emin Saruhanlı | 67 Fair |
| 2021 | Stuck Apart | Actor | Erbil | 59 Average |
| 2021 | Şeref Bey | Actor | Şeref | 70 Good |
| 2020 | Leyla Everlasting | Actor | Adem | 57 Average |
| 2019 | Noah Land | Actor | Ibrahim | 59 Average |
| 2018 | Halloween | Actor | Dr. Sartain | 65 Fair |
| 2018 | Persona | Actor | Agâh Beyoğlu | 77 Good |
| 2017 | Forget About Nick | Actor | Nick | 58 Average |
| 2017 | Shelter | Actor | Ahmet | 58 Average |
| 2017 | Cingöz Recai | Actor | Başkomiser Mehmet Rıza | 57 Average |
| 2017 | Trendy | Actor | Hasan | 59 Average |
| 2017 | The Bank of Broken Hearts | Actor | Yusuf Yağmur | 59 Average |
| 2017 | The Ottoman Lieutenant | Actor | Khalil Bey | 59 Average |
| 2017 | Black Letter | Actor | Oğuz Karahan | 70 Good |
| 2017 | The Last Schnitzel | Actor | The President | 59 Average |
| 2017 | Innocent | Actor | Cevdet Bayrakçı | 73 Good |
| 2016 | Ben-Hur | Actor | Simonides | 57 Average |
| 2014 | A Long Cold Winter | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2014 | Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük Suyu | Actor | Evliya Çelebi (voice) | 58 Average |
| 2014 | Rosewater | Actor | Baba Akbar | 60 Fair |
| 2014 | Winter Sleep | Actor | Aydın | 67 Fair |
| 2013 | Kaçak | Actor | Faysal Mengen | 70 Good |
| 2013 | The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Actor | Nazmi Kemal | 61 Fair |
| 2012 | Hayatımın Rolü | Actor | Müşfik/Yaşar | 70 Good |
| 2012 | Antonius and Cleopatra | Actor | Antonius | 59 Average |
| 2011 | W.E. | Actor | Al Fayed | 60 Fair |
| 2011 | İstanbul'un Altınları | Actor | Reşat Altın | 69 Fair |
| 2011 | 7 | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2011 | Çanakkale Çocukları | Actor | Kasim | 59 Average |
| 2010 | Cuma'ya Kalsa | Actor | Cuma | 69 Fair |
| 2010 | Five Minarets in New York | Actor | Hacı | 58 Average |
| 2009 | 7 Husbands for Hurmuz | Actor | Cebrail | 59 Average |
| 2009 | Ezel | Actor | Kenan Birkan | 77 Good |
| 2009 | Sıkı Dostlar | Actor | Hikmet | 69 Fair |
| 2009 | The International | Actor | Ahmet Sunay | 61 Fair |
| 2008 | A Son of the Sun | Actor | Alper Canan | 59 Average |
| 2008 | Cars of the Revolution | Actor | Necip | 61 Fair |
| 2008 | Nerede Kalmıştık | Actor | Ateş | N/A N/A |
| 2007 | Sevgili Dünürüm | Actor | Ahmet | 69 Fair |
| 2007 | Police | Actor | Musa Rami | 59 Average |
| 2006 | 15 Minutes Over Low Heat | Actor | Muhtar | 59 Average |
| 2006 | Killing the Shadows | Actor | Karagöz | 60 Fair |
| 2005 | Yine de Aşığım | Actor | Ali | N/A N/A |
| 2005 | Robbery Alla Turca | Actor | Seçkin Doruk | 58 Average |
| 2004 | Yes, Minister | Actor | Samim Bayraktar | N/A N/A |
| 2004 | Disappeared | Actor | Inspector Yilmaz | 58 Average |
| 2004 | Where's Firuze? | Actor | Hayri Kalıpçı | 60 Fair |
| 2003 | The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World | Actor | King Hattuþili III | 59 Average |
| 2002 | Buffalo Soldiers | Actor | The Turk | 60 Fair |
| 2001 | Sweet Life | Actor | İhsan Yıldırım | 71 Good |
| 2001 | Cesur Kuşku | Actor | Cesur | 70 Good |
| 2001 | Running in the Dark | Actor | Ali | 70 Good |
| 2000 | Elephants and Grass | Actor | Sabit Üzücü | 59 Average |
| 2000 | Beans | Actor | Bilge Dede | 59 Average |
| 2000 | Eyvah Kızım Büyüdü | Actor | Sedat Çolak | 68 Fair |
| 2000 | Güle Güle | Actor | Zinnur | 59 Average |
| 1999 | Last Harem | Actor | Abdülhamit II | 58 Average |
| 1999 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert | Actor | Col. Ismet Bay | 58 Average |
| 1998 | Eyvah Babam | Actor | Sedat Çolak | N/A N/A |
| 1997 | Innocence | Actor | Bekir | 62 Fair |
| 1997 | Nihavend Mucize | Actor | Erol | 58 Average |
| 1997 | Sawdust Tales | Actor | Aaron | 58 Average |
| 1996 | Istanbul Beneath My Wings | Actor | Evliya Çelebi | 59 Average |
| 1996 | The 80th Step | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1994 | Gülşen Abi | Actor | Abidin Özbidin / Gülşen Abla | 70 Good |
| 1993 | Son Söz Sevginin | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1992 | Two Women | Actor | 58 Average |
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| 1991 | Cloud in Love | Actor | Atila | 59 Average |
| 1990 | Ölürayak | Actor | Ömer | N/A N/A |
| 1987 | Gecenin Öteki Yüzü | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1987 | Ishtar | Actor | Guerrilla leader | 55 Average |
| 1987 | Ateşten Günler | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1987 | Ateşten Günler | Actor | Ahmet Rıfkı | 70 Good |
| 1986 | Half Moon Street | Actor | First Arab | 58 Average |
| 1985 | Murder of a Moderate Man | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| Beneath the Hagia Sophia | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
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Crew |
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| 2011 | 7 | Crew | Translator | 59 Average |