Cast
Haluk Bilginer
Acting
Cast
Haluk Bilginer
Known for
Acting
Born
1954-06-05
From
İzmir, Turkey
Also known as Nihat Haluk Bilginer, هالوک بیلگینر
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.
Halloween
as Dr. Sartain
Ben-Hur
as Simonides
Maria
as Aristotle Onassis
The International
as Ahmet Sunay
W.E.
as Al Fayed
Soyut Dışavurumcu Bir Dostluğun Anatomisi Veyahut Yan Yana
as Refik
Ishtar
as Guerrilla leader
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
as Nazmi Kemal
Buffalo Soldiers
as The Turk
The Ottoman Lieutenant
as Khalil Bey
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert
as Col. Ismet Bay
Half Moon Street
as First Arab
Winter Sleep
as Aydın
Last Harem
as Abdülhamit II
Five Minarets in New York
as Hacı
Stuck Apart
as Erbil
Rosewater
as Baba Akbar
Shelter
as Ahmet
Istanbul Beneath My Wings
as Evliya Çelebi
7 Husbands for Hurmuz
as Cebrail
Where's Firuze?
as Hayri Kalıpçı
The Last Schnitzel
as The President
Robbery Alla Turca
as Seçkin Doruk
Innocence
as Bekir
Cingöz Recai
as Başkomiser Mehmet Rıza
Disappeared
as Inspector Yilmaz
The Bank of Broken Hearts
as Yusuf Yağmur
Leyla Everlasting
as Adem
Cars of the Revolution
as Necip
Trendy
as Hasan
Güle Güle
as Zinnur
A Son of the Sun
as Alper Canan
Elephants and Grass
as Sabit Üzücü
Killing the Shadows
as Karagöz
Forget About Nick
as Nick
Two Women
Police
as Musa Rami
Noah Land
as Ibrahim
Beans
as Bilge Dede
The 80th Step
as Savcı
A Long Cold Winter
The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World
as King Hattuþili III
Amerikalı
Time of Death
as Ömer
7
Çanakkale Çocukları
as Kasim
Beneath the Hagia Sophia
as Narrator
15 Minutes Over Low Heat
as Muhtar
Sawdust Tales
as Aaron
Nihavend Mucize
as Erol
Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük Suyu
as Evliya Çelebi (voice)
Antonius and Cleopatra
as Antonius
Cloud in Love
as Atila
