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.
Movies
Soyut Dışavurumcu Bir Dostluğun Anatomisi Veyahut Yan Yana
Refik
Maria
Aristotle Onassis
Stuck Apart
Erbil
Leyla Everlasting
Adem
Noah Land
Ibrahim
Halloween
Dr. Sartain
Forget About Nick
Nick
Shelter
Ahmet
Cingöz Recai
Başkomiser Mehmet Rıza
Trendy
Hasan
The Bank of Broken Hearts
Yusuf Yağmur
The Ottoman Lieutenant
Khalil Bey
The Last Schnitzel
The President
Ben-Hur
Simonides
A Long Cold Winter
Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük Suyu
Evliya Çelebi (voice)
Rosewater
Baba Akbar
Winter Sleep
Aydın
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Nazmi Kemal
Antonius and Cleopatra
Antonius
W.E.
Al Fayed
7
Çanakkale Çocukları
Kasim
Five Minarets in New York
Hacı
7 Husbands for Hurmuz
Cebrail
The International
Ahmet Sunay
A Son of the Sun
Alper Canan
Cars of the Revolution
Necip
Police
Musa Rami
15 Minutes Over Low Heat
Muhtar
Killing the Shadows
Karagöz
Robbery Alla Turca
Seçkin Doruk
Disappeared
Inspector Yilmaz
Where's Firuze?
Hayri Kalıpçı
The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World
King Hattuþili III
Buffalo Soldiers
The Turk
Elephants and Grass
Sabit Üzücü
Beans
Bilge Dede
Güle Güle
Zinnur
Last Harem
Abdülhamit II
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert
Col. Ismet Bay
Innocence
Bekir
Sawdust Tales
Aaron
Nihavend Mucize
Erol
Istanbul Beneath My Wings
Evliya Çelebi
The 80th Step
Savcı
Amerikalı
Two Women
Cloud in Love
Atila
Time of Death
Ömer
Ishtar
Guerrilla leader
Half Moon Street
First Arab
Beneath the Hagia Sophia
Narrator
TV Series
Sekizinci Aile
8 Episodes
Lovers & Liars
Kadir
12 Episodes
The Veil
Mr. Demir
1 Episode
The Turkish Detective
Çetin İkmen
8 Episodes
Hot Skull
Haluk
4 Episodes
Wild Abandon
Berhudar
8 Episodes
Baba
Emin Saruhanlı
30 Episodes
Şeref Bey
Şeref
10 Episodes
Alex Rider
Dr. Greif
7 Episodes
Persona
Agâh Beyoğlu
22 Episodes
Black Letter
Oğuz Karahan
6 Episodes
Innocent
Cevdet Bayrakçı
8 Episodes
Kaçak
Faysal Mengen
18 Episodes
Hayatımın Rolü
Müşfik/Yaşar
19 Episodes
Acayip Hikayeler
Sinan (Gecenin Avcısı)
1 Episode
İstanbul'un Altınları
Reşat Altın
16 Episodes
Cuma'ya Kalsa
Cuma
12 Episodes
Ezel
Kenan Birkan
38 Episodes
Sıkı Dostlar
Hikmet
23 Episodes
Nerede Kalmıştık
Ateş
13 Episodes
Sevgili Dünürüm
Ahmet
21 Episodes
Yine de Aşığım
Ali
12 Episodes
Yes, Minister
Samim Bayraktar
14 Episodes
Spooks
Emre Celenk
1 Episode
Sweet Life
İhsan Yıldırım
106 Episodes
Cesur Kuşku
Cesur
6 Episodes
Running in the Dark
Ali
10 Episodes
Eyvah Kızım Büyüdü
Sedat Çolak
34 Episodes
Eyvah Babam
Sedat Çolak
39 Episodes
Gülşen Abi
Abidin Özbidin / Gülşen Abla
115 Episodes
Sıcağı Sıcağına
Sunucu
32 Episodes
Son Söz Sevginin
1 Episode
Borsa
Reha Çalık
11 Episodes
Gecenin Öteki Yüzü
3 Episodes
Ateşten Günler
Ahmet Rıfkı
4 Episodes
Murder of a Moderate Man
5 Episodes
EastEnders
Mehmet Osman
3855 Episodes
The Bill
1 Episode
Bergerac
Ahmed
1 Episode