Haluk Bilginer
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1954-06-05
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
Innocence
1997Bekir
A Son of the Sun
2008Alper Canan
Sawdust Tales
1997Aaron
7 Husbands for Hurmuz
2009Cebrail
Police
2007Musa Rami
Robbery Alla Turca
2005Seçkin Doruk
Killing the Shadows
2006Karagöz
Five Minarets in New York
2010Hacı
Cars of the Revolution
2008Necip
W.E.
2011Al Fayed
7
2011
15 Minutes Over Low Heat
2006Muhtar
Where's Firuze?
2004Hayri Kalıpçı
Çanakkale Çocukları
2011KasimBeneath the Hagia Sophia
Narrator
The 80th Step
1996Savcı
Elephants and Grass
2000Sabit Üzücü
Rosewater
2014Baba Akbar
Antonius and Cleopatra
2012Antonius