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.
★6.6
MOVIE2018
Halloween
as Dr. Sartain
★5.8
MOVIE2016
Ben-Hur
as Simonides
★4.2
MOVIE2017
Cingöz Recai
as Başkomiser Mehmet Rıza
★6.3
MOVIE2009
The International
as Ahmet Sunay
★6.8
MOVIE2025
Yan Yana
as Refik
★6.3
MOVIE2011
W.E.
as Al Fayed
★6.5
MOVIE2024
Maria
as Aristotle Onassis
★6.5
MOVIE2008
A Son of the Sun
as Alper Canan
★6.6
MOVIE2013
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
as Nazmi Kemal
★6.0
MOVIE2017
The Ottoman Lieutenant
as Khalil Bey
★2.8
MOVIE2011
Çanakkale Çocukları
as Kasim
★6.3
MOVIE2002
Buffalo Soldiers
as The Turk
★9.0
MOVIE1996
The 80th Step
as Savcı
★5.1
MOVIE1986
Half Moon Street
as First Arab
★5.7
MOVIE1992
Two Women
★4.9
MOVIE1997
Nihavend Mucize
as Erol
★5.2
MOVIE1993
Amerikalı
★8.0
MOVIE1990
Time of Death
as Ömer
★6.6
MOVIE1996
Istanbul Beneath My Wings
as Evliya Çelebi
★4.6
MOVIE1987
Ishtar
as Guerrilla leader
★5.5
MOVIE2010
Five Minarets in New York
as Hacı
★5.9
MOVIE2006
15 Minutes Over Low Heat
as Muhtar
★6.0
MOVIE2009
7 Husbands for Hurmuz
as Cebrail
★6.5
MOVIE2017
The Bank of Broken Hearts
as Yusuf Yağmur
★7.1
MOVIE2006
Killing the Shadows
as Karagöz
★5.5
MOVIE1999
Last Harem
as Abdülhamit II
★7.5
MOVIE2014
Winter Sleep
as Aydın
★7.8
MOVIE2014
A Long Cold Winter
★7.7
MOVIE1997
Innocence
as Bekir
★6.4
MOVIE2014
Rosewater
as Baba Akbar
★8.0
MOVIE2012
Antonius and Cleopatra
as Antonius
★5.6
MOVIE2011
7
★7.2
MOVIE2000
Beans
as Bilge Dede
★7.8
MOVIE2008
Cars of the Revolution
as Necip
★7.5
MOVIE1991
Cloud in Love
as Atila
★5.6
MOVIE1999
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert
as Col. Ismet Bay
★7.2
MOVIE2004
Where's Firuze?
as Hayri Kalıpçı
★6.0
MOVIE2021
Stuck Apart
as Erbil
★5.5
MOVIE2017
Forget About Nick
as Nick
★6.7
MOVIE2007
Police
as Musa Rami
MOVIE2009
The Watercolor-Suluboya
★5.3
MOVIE2017
Shelter
as Ahmet
★4.5
MOVIE2004
Disappeared
as Inspector Yilmaz
★3.8
MOVIE2020
Leyla Everlasting
as Adem
★4.8
MOVIE2005
Robbery Alla Turca
as Seçkin Doruk
★6.2
MOVIE2003
The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World
as King Hattuþili III
★5.6
MOVIE1997
Sawdust Tales
as Aaron
★7.0
MOVIE2017
Trendy
as Hasan
★6.9
MOVIE2019
Noah Land
as Ibrahim
★6.9
MOVIE2017
The Last Schnitzel
as The President
★6.6
MOVIE2000
Elephants and Grass
as Sabit Üzücü
★7.1
MOVIE2000
Güle Güle
as Zinnur
MOVIETBA
Beneath the Hagia Sophia
as Narrator
★5.7
MOVIE2014
Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük Suyu
as Evliya Çelebi (voice)