Acting

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.

Credits

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The Eighth Family
2025
Yan Yana
as Refik
2025
Lovers & Liars
as Kadir
2025
Maria
as Aristotle Onassis
2024
The Veil
as Mr. Demir
2024
A Long Cold Winter
2024
The Turkish Detective
as Çetin İkmen
2023
Hot Skull
as Haluk
2022
Wild Abandon
as Berhudar
2022
Baba
as Emin Saruhanlı
2022
Stuck Apart
as Erbil
2021
Şeref Bey
as Şeref
2021
Leyla Everlasting
as Adem
2020
Alex Rider
as Dr. Greif
2020
Noah Land
as Ibrahim
2019
Halloween
as Dr. Sartain
2018
Persona
as Agâh Beyoğlu
2018
Forget About Nick
as Nick
2017
Shelter
as Ahmet
2017
Cingöz Recai
as Başkomiser Mehmet Rıza
2017
Trendy
as Hasan
2017
The Bank of Broken Hearts
as Yusuf Yağmur
2017
The Ottoman Lieutenant
as Khalil Bey
2017
Black Letter
as Oğuz Karahan
2017
The Last Schnitzel
as The President
2017
Innocent
as Cevdet Bayrakçı
2017
Ben-Hur
as Simonides
2016
Komedi Türkiye
2015
A Long Cold Winter
2014
Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük Suyu
as Evliya Çelebi (voice)
2014
Rosewater
as Baba Akbar
2014
Winter Sleep
as Aydın
2014
Kaçak
as Faysal Mengen
2013
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
as Nazmi Kemal
2013
Hayatımın Rolü
as Müşfik/Yaşar
2012
Öldürme Üzerine - Acayip Hikayeler
as Sinan
2012
Acayip Hikayeler
as Sinan (Gecenin Avcısı)
2012
Antonius and Cleopatra
as Antonius
2012
W.E.
as Al Fayed
2011
İstanbul'un Altınları
as Reşat Altın
2011
7
2011
7
Translator
2011
Çanakkale Çocukları
as Kasim
2011
Cuma'ya Kalsa
as Cuma
2010
Five Minarets in New York
as Hacı
2010
7 Husbands for Hurmuz
as Cebrail
2009
The Watercolor-Suluboya
2009
Ezel
as Kenan Birkan
2009
Sıkı Dostlar
as Hikmet
2009
The International
as Ahmet Sunay
2009
A Son of the Sun
as Alper Canan
2008
Cars of the Revolution
as Necip
2008
Nerede Kalmıştık
as Ateş
2008
Sevgili Dünürüm
as Ahmet
2007
Police
as Musa Rami
2007
15 Minutes Over Low Heat
as Muhtar
2006
Killing the Shadows
as Karagöz
2006
Yine de Aşığım
as Ali
2005
Robbery Alla Turca
as Seçkin Doruk
2005
Yes, Minister
as Samim Bayraktar
2004
Disappeared
as Inspector Yilmaz
2004
Where's Firuze?
as Hayri Kalıpçı
2004
The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World
as King Hattuþili III
2003
Buffalo Soldiers
as The Turk
2002
Spooks
as Emre Celenk
2002
Sweet Life
as İhsan Yıldırım
2001
Sweet Life
2001
Cesur Kuşku
as Cesur
2001
Running in the Dark
as Ali
2001
Elephants and Grass
as Sabit Üzücü
2000
Beans
as Bilge Dede
2000
Eyvah Kızım Büyüdü
as Sedat Çolak
2000
YANLIŞ İÇERİK
2000
Güle Güle
as Zinnur
2000
Last Harem
as Abdülhamit II
1999
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert
as Col. Ismet Bay
1999
Eyvah Babam
as Sedat Çolak
1998
Innocence
as Bekir
1997
Sawdust Tales
as Aaron
1997
Nihavend Mucize
as Erol
1997