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