Haluk Bilginer
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Jun 5, 1954 (72 years old)
Place of Birth
İzmir, Turkey
Biography
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
| 2025 | Soyut Dışavurumcu Bir Dostluğun Anatomisi Veyahut Yan YanaRefik | |
| 2025 | Lovers & LiarsKadir | |
| 2025 | The Eighth Family | |
| 2024 | MariaAristotle Onassis | |
| 2024 | The VeilMr. Demir | |
| 2023 | The Turkish DetectiveÇetin İkmen | |
| 2022 | BabaEmin Saruhanlı | |
| 2022 | Wild AbandonBerhudar | |
| 2022 | Hot SkullHaluk | |
| 2021 | Stuck ApartErbil | |
| 2021 | Şeref BeyŞeref | |
| 2020 | Leyla EverlastingAdem | |
| 2020 | Alex RiderDr. Greif | |
| 2019 | Noah LandIbrahim | |
| 2018 | HalloweenDr. Sartain | |
| 2018 | PersonaAgâh Beyoğlu | |
| 2017 | The Ottoman LieutenantKhalil Bey | |
| 2017 | The Bank of Broken HeartsYusuf Yağmur | |
| 2017 | Cingöz RecaiBaşkomiser Mehmet Rıza | |
| 2017 | Forget About NickNick | |
| 2017 | ShelterAhmet | |
| 2017 | The Last SchnitzelThe President | |
| 2017 | TrendyHasan | |
| 2017 | InnocentCevdet Bayrakçı | |
| 2017 | Black LetterOğuz Karahan | |
| 2016 | Ben-HurSimonides | |
| 2015 | Komedi Türkiye | |
| 2014 | RosewaterBaba Akbar | |
| 2014 | Winter SleepAydın | |
| 2014 | Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük SuyuEvliya Çelebi (voice) | |
| 2014 | A Long Cold Winter | |
| 2013 | The Reluctant FundamentalistNazmi Kemal | |
| 2013 | KaçakFaysal Mengen | |
| 2012 | Antonius and CleopatraAntonius | |
| 2012 | Acayip HikayelerSinan (Gecenin Avcısı) | |
| 2012 | Hayatımın RolüMüşfik/Yaşar | |
| 2011 | W.E.Al Fayed | |
| 2011 | 7 | |
| 2011 | Çanakkale ÇocuklarıKasim | |
| 2011 | İstanbul'un AltınlarıReşat Altın | |
| 2010 | Five Minarets in New YorkHacı | |
| 2010 | Cuma'ya KalsaCuma | |
| 2009 | 7 Husbands for HurmuzCebrail | |
| 2009 | The InternationalAhmet Sunay | |
| 2009 | The Watercolor-Suluboya | |
| 2009 | EzelKenan Birkan | |
| 2009 | Sıkı DostlarHikmet | |
| 2008 | A Son of the SunAlper Canan | |
| 2008 | Cars of the RevolutionNecip | |
| 2008 | Nerede KalmıştıkAteş | |
| 2007 | PoliceMusa Rami | |
| 2007 | Sevgili DünürümAhmet | |
| 2006 | Killing the ShadowsKaragöz | |
| 2006 | 15 Minutes Over Low HeatMuhtar | |
| 2005 | Robbery Alla TurcaSeçkin Doruk | |
| 2005 | Yine de AşığımAli | |
| 2004 | Where's Firuze?Hayri Kalıpçı | |
| 2004 | DisappearedInspector Yilmaz | |
| 2004 | Yes, MinisterSamim Bayraktar | |
| 2003 | The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the WorldKing Hattuþili III | |
| 2002 | Buffalo SoldiersThe Turk | |
| 2002 | SpooksEmre Celenk | |
| 2001 | Sweet Lifeİhsan Yıldırım | |
| 2001 | Running in the DarkAli | |
| 2001 | Cesur KuşkuCesur | |
| 2000 | Elephants and GrassSabit Üzücü | |
| 2000 | BeansBilge Dede | |
| 2000 | Güle GüleZinnur | |
| 2000 | Eyvah Kızım BüyüdüSedat Çolak | |
| 2000 | Kim Milyoner Olmak İster? | |
| 1999 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the DesertCol. Ismet Bay | |
| 1999 | Last HaremAbdülhamit II | |
| 1998 | Eyvah BabamSedat Çolak | |
| 1997 | InnocenceBekir | |
| 1997 | Sawdust TalesAaron | |
| 1997 | Nihavend MucizeErol | |
| 1996 | The 80th StepSavcı | |
| 1996 | Istanbul Beneath My WingsEvliya Çelebi | |
| 1994 | Gülşen AbiAbidin Özbidin / Gülşen Abla | |
| 1993 | Amerikalı | |
| 1993 | Son Söz Sevginin | |
| 1993 | Sıcağı SıcağınaSunucu | |
| 1993 | BorsaReha Çalık | |
| 1992 | Two Women | |
| 1991 | Cloud in LoveAtila | |
| 1991 | Laf Lafı Açıyor | |
| 1990 | Time of DeathÖmer | |
| 1987 | IshtarGuerrilla leader | |
| 1987 | Ateşten GünlerAhmet Rıfkı | |
| 1987 | Gecenin Öteki Yüzü | |
| 1986 | Half Moon StreetFirst Arab | |
| 1985 | EastEndersMehmet Osman | |
| 1985 | Murder of a Moderate Man | |
| 1984 | The Bill | |
| 1981 | BergeracAhmed | |
| - | Beneath the Hagia SophiaNarrator |
| 2011 | 7Translator |