Haluk Bilginer
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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
Credits
Halloween (2018)
as Dr. Sartain
Ben-Hur (2016)
as Simonides
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013)
as Nazmi Kemal
The International (2009)
as Ahmet Sunay
Yan Yana (2025)
as Refik
Maria (2024)
as Aristotle Onassis
Buffalo Soldiers (2002)
as The Turk
W.E. (2011)
as Al Fayed
Winter Sleep (2014)
as Aydın
The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017)
as Khalil Bey
Ishtar (1987)
as Guerrilla leader
Last Harem (1999)
as Abdülhamit II
Half Moon Street (1986)
as First Arab
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert (1999)
as Col. Ismet Bay
Five Minarets in New York (2010)
as Hacı
Rosewater (2014)
as Baba Akbar
Stuck Apart (2021)
as Erbil
Disappeared (2004)
as Inspector Yilmaz
Cingöz Recai (2017)
as Başkomiser Mehmet Rıza
The Bank of Broken Hearts (2017)
as Yusuf Yağmur
Amerikalı (1993)
Actor
Shelter (2017)
as Ahmet
Where's Firuze? (2004)
as Hayri Kalıpçı
Time of Death (1990)
as Ömer
Innocence (1997)
as Bekir
A Son of the Sun (2008)
as Alper Canan
The Last Schnitzel (2017)
as The President
Leyla Everlasting (2020)
as Adem
7 Husbands for Hurmuz (2009)
as Cebrail
Robbery Alla Turca (2005)
as Seçkin Doruk
Nihavend Mucize (1997)
as Erol
Trendy (2017)
as Hasan
Istanbul Beneath My Wings (1996)
as Evliya Çelebi
Beans (2000)
as Bilge Dede
Police (2007)
as Musa Rami
Killing the Shadows (2006)
as Karagöz
The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World (2003)
as King Hattuþili III
A Long Cold Winter (2014)
Actor
15 Minutes Over Low Heat (2006)
as Muhtar
Cars of the Revolution (2008)
as Necip
Sawdust Tales (1997)
as Aaron
The 80th Step (1996)
as Savcı
Two Women (1992)
Actor
Forget About Nick (2017)
as Nick
Antonius and Cleopatra (2012)
as Antonius
Güle Güle (2000)
as Zinnur
Çanakkale Çocukları (2011)
as Kasim
Noah Land (2019)
as Ibrahim
7 (2011)
Actor
The Watercolor-Suluboya (2009)
Actor
Elephants and Grass (2000)
as Sabit Üzücü
Cloud in Love (1991)
as Atila
Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük Suyu (2014)
as Evliya Çelebi (voice)
Beneath the Hagia Sophia (—)
as Narrator