Birthday:
Jun 06, 1954
Place of Birth: İzmir, Turkey
Place of Birth: İzmir, Turkey
Haluk Bilginer
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
| Movie | Cast | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Innocence | Bekir | 1997 |
| A Son of the Sun | Alper Canan | 2008 |
| Sawdust Tales | Aaron | 1997 |
| 7 Husbands for Hurmuz | Cebrail | 2009 |
| Police | Musa Rami | 2007 |
| Robbery Alla Turca | Seçkin Doruk | 2005 |
| Killing the Shadows | Karagöz | 2006 |
| Five Minarets in New York | Hacı | 2010 |
| Cars of the Revolution | Necip | 2008 |
| W.E. | Al Fayed | 2011 |
| 7 | 2011 | |
| 15 Minutes Over Low Heat | Muhtar | 2006 |
| Where's Firuze? | Hayri Kalıpçı | 2004 |
| Çanakkale Çocukları | Kasim | 2011 |
| Beneath the Hagia Sophia | Narrator | 1970 |
| The 80th Step | 1996 | |
| Elephants and Grass | Sabit Üzücü | 2000 |
| Rosewater | Baba Akbar | 2014 |
| Antonius and Cleopatra | Antonius | 2012 |
| Maria | Aristotle Onassis | 2024 |
| Winter Sleep | Aydın | 2014 |
| Ölürayak | Ömer | 1990 |
| Beans | Bilge Dede | 2000 |
| Half Moon Street | First Arab | 1986 |
| Ishtar | Guerrilla leader | 1987 |
| Güle Güle | Zinnur | 2000 |
| Two Women | 1992 | |
| Nihavend Mucize | Erol | 1997 |
| Ben-Hur | Simonides | 2016 |
| The Ottoman Lieutenant | Khalil Bey | 2017 |
| The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World | King Hattuþili III | 2003 |
| The Bank of Broken Hearts | Yusuf Yağmur | 2017 |
| Istanbul Beneath My Wings | Evliya Çelebi | 1996 |
| The International | Ahmet Sunay | 2009 |
| Cingöz Recai | Başkomiser Mehmet Rıza | 2017 |
| Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük Suyu | Evliya Çelebi (voice) | 2014 |
| Forget About Nick | Nick | 2017 |
| Shelter | Ahmet | 2017 |
| Cloud in Love | Atila | 1991 |
| Halloween | Dr. Sartain | 2018 |
| The Last Schnitzel | The President | 2017 |
| The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert | Col. Ismet Bay | 1999 |
| Buffalo Soldiers | The Turk | 2002 |
| Noah Land | Ibrahim | 2019 |
| Trendy | Hasan | 2017 |
| The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Nazmi Kemal | 2013 |
| A Long Cold Winter | 2014 | |
| Stuck Apart | Erbil | 2021 |
| Last Harem | Abdülhamit II | 1999 |
| Leyla Everlasting | Adem | 2020 |
| Disappeared | Inspector Yilmaz | 2004 | Series | Cast | Year |
| Bergerac | Ahmed | 1981 |
| EastEnders | Mehmet Osman | 1985 |
| The Bill | 1984 | |
| Spooks | Emre Celenk | 2002 |
| Yes, Minister | Samim Bayraktar | 2004 |
| Murder of a Moderate Man | 1985 | |
| Sevgili Dünürüm | Ahmet | 2007 |
| Ezel | Kenan Birkan | 2009 |
| Yine de Aşığım | Ali | 2005 |
| Alex Rider | Dr. Greif | 2020 |
| Kaçak | Faysal Mengen | 2013 |
| Sıkı Dostlar | Hikmet | 2009 |
| Acayip Hikayeler | Sinan (Gecenin Avcısı) | 2012 |
| Baba | Emin Saruhanlı | 2022 |
| Innocent | Cevdet Bayrakçı | 2017 |
| Wild Abandon | Berhudar | 2022 |
| Eyvah Babam | Sedat Çolak | 1998 |
| Eyvah Kızım Büyüdü | Sedat Çolak | 2000 |
| Sweet Life | İhsan Yıldırım | 2001 |
| The Turkish Detective | Çetin İkmen | 2023 |
| Persona | Agâh Beyoğlu | 2018 |
| Nerede Kalmıştık | Ateş | 2008 |
| İstanbul'un Altınları | Reşat Altın | 2011 |
| Running in the Dark | Ali | 2001 |
| Hayatımın Rolü | Müşfik/Yaşar | 2012 |
| Ateşten Günler | Ahmet Rıfkı | 1987 |
| Cesur Kuşku | Cesur | 2001 |
| Cuma'ya Kalsa | Cuma | 2010 |
| Black Letter | Oğuz Karahan | 2017 |
| Gecenin Öteki Yüzü | 1987 | |
| Hot Skull | Haluk | 2022 |
| Gülşen Abi | Abidin Özbidin / Gülşen Abla | 1994 |
| Son Söz Sevginin | 1993 | |
| The Veil | Mr. Demir | 2024 |
| Şeref Bey | Şeref | 2021 |
