Haluk Bilginer
Acting
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
2025Soyut Dışavurumcu Bir Dostluğun Anatomisi Veyahut Yan Yana
Refik
2024Maria
Aristotle Onassis
2021Stuck Apart
Erbil
2020Leyla Everlasting
Adem
2019Noah Land
Ibrahim
2018Halloween
Dr. Sartain
2017The Ottoman Lieutenant
Khalil Bey
2017The Bank of Broken Hearts
Yusuf Yağmur
2017Cingöz Recai
Başkomiser Mehmet Rıza
2017Forget About Nick
Nick
2017Shelter
Ahmet
2017The Last Schnitzel
The President
2017Trendy
Hasan
2016Ben-Hur
Simonides
2014Rosewater
Baba Akbar
2014Winter Sleep
Aydın
2014Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük Suyu
Evliya Çelebi (voice)
2014A Long Cold Winter
2013The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Nazmi Kemal
2012Antonius and Cleopatra
Antonius
2011W.E.
Al Fayed
20117
2011Çanakkale Çocukları
Kasim
2010Five Minarets in New York
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