Haluk Bilginer
Acting
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.
Known for
Halloween
2018 · Movie
Ben-Hur
2016 · Movie
Soyut Dışavurumcu Bir Dostluğun Anatomisi Veyahut Yan Yana
2025 · Movie
Maria
2024 · Movie
The International
2009 · Movie
The Ottoman Lieutenant
2017 · Movie
W.E.
2011 · Movie
Winter Sleep
2014 · Movie
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2013 · Movie
Rosewater
2014 · Movie
The 80th Step
1996 · Movie
Buffalo Soldiers
2002 · Movie
Innocence
1997 · Movie
Cars of the Revolution
2008 · Movie
Where's Firuze?
2004 · Movie
A Long Cold Winter
2014 · Movie
Time of Death
1990 · Movie
Antonius and Cleopatra
2012 · Movie
Five Minarets in New York
2010 · Movie
Trendy
2017 · Movie
Killing the Shadows
2006 · Movie
The Last Schnitzel
2017 · Movie
Stuck Apart
2021 · Movie
Ishtar
1987 · Movie
Beans
2000 · Movie
Cloud in Love
1991 · Movie
Shelter
2017 · Movie
Last Harem
1999 · Movie
Half Moon Street
1986 · Movie
Güle Güle
2000 · Movie
Noah Land
2019 · Movie
The Bank of Broken Hearts
2017 · Movie
Police
2007 · Movie
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert
1999 · Movie
Istanbul Beneath My Wings
1996 · Movie
A Son of the Sun
2008 · Movie
Elephants and Grass
2000 · Movie
7 Husbands for Hurmuz
2009 · Movie
The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World
2003 · Movie
15 Minutes Over Low Heat
2006 · Movie
Sawdust Tales
1997 · Movie
Forget About Nick
2017 · Movie
Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük Suyu
2014 · Movie
Two Women
1992 · Movie
7
2011 · Movie
Disappeared
2004 · Movie
Amerikalı
1993 · Movie
Robbery Alla Turca
2005 · Movie
Nihavend Mucize
1997 · Movie
Cingöz Recai
2017 · Movie
Leyla Everlasting
2020 · Movie
Çanakkale Çocukları
2011 · Movie
The Watercolor-Suluboya
2009 · Movie