Haluk Bilginer

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

A Son of the Sun

7 Husbands for Hurmuz

Robbery Alla Turca

Killing the Shadows

Five Minarets in New York

Cars of the Revolution

15 Minutes Over Low Heat

Where's Firuze?

Hayri Kalıpçı

Çanakkale Çocukları

Beneath the Hagia Sophia

Elephants and Grass

Antonius and Cleopatra

Aristotle Onassis

Half Moon Street

Guerrilla leader

Nihavend Mucize

The Ottoman Lieutenant

The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World

King Hattuþili III

The Bank of Broken Hearts

Istanbul Beneath My Wings

The International

Başkomiser Mehmet Rıza

Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük Suyu

Evliya Çelebi (voice)

Forget About Nick

The Last Schnitzel

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert

Buffalo Soldiers

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

A Long Cold Winter

Leyla Everlasting

Inspector Yilmaz

Crew