Haluk Bilginer
Acting
🎂 1954-06-05
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.
Cast credits(88)
Mehmet Osman
1985
Emre Celenk
2002
Ahmed
1981
1984
Dr. Greif
2020
Aristotle Onassis
2024
Abidin Özbidin / Gülşen Abla
1994
Dr. Sartain
2018
Başkomiser Mehmet Rıza
2017
Emin Saruhanlı
2022
Mr. Demir
2024
Kenan Birkan
2009
Simonides
2016
Zinnur
2000
Agâh Beyoğlu
2018
Ahmet Sunay
2009
Savcı
1996
Faysal Mengen
2013
Nick
2017
The Turk
2002
Erbil
2021
Bilge Dede
2000
Musa Rami
2007
Abdülhamit II
1999
Muhtar
2006
Adem
2020
Cevdet Bayrakçı
2017
İhsan Yıldırım
2001
Alper Canan
2008
Hayri Kalıpçı
2004
Seçkin Doruk
2005
Khalil Bey
2017
Baba Akbar
2014
Yusuf Yağmur
2017
Evliya Çelebi
1996
Necip
2008
Guerrilla leader
1987
Sabit Üzücü
2000
Antonius
2012
Hacı
2010
Nazmi Kemal
2013
Al Fayed
2011
Haluk
2022
Bekir
1997
Aydın
2014
Karagöz
2006
Erol
1997
Ömer
1990
Cebrail
2009
1993
2011
Çetin İkmen
2023
Inspector Yilmaz
2004
The President
2017
2014
Berhudar
2022
Ali
2005
King Hattuþili III
2003
First Arab
1986
Atila
1991
Oğuz Karahan
2017
Col. Ismet Bay
1999
Hikmet
2009
Kasim
2011
Sinan (Gecenin Avcısı)
2012
1992
Sunucu
1993
Cesur
2001
Ahmet
2017
Sedat Çolak
1998
Cuma
2010
Şeref
2021
Ahmet Rıfkı
1987
Müşfik/Yaşar
2012
Ali
2001
Ahmet
2007
Samim Bayraktar
2004
Ateş
2008
Sedat Çolak
2000
Reşat Altın
2011
Hasan
2017
1985
1987
1993
Ibrahim
2019
Evliya Çelebi (voice)
2014
Aaron
1997
Narrator