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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 5, 1954
Place of Birth
İzmir, Turkey
Also Known As
- Nihat Haluk Bilginer
- هالوک بیلگینر
Haluk Bilginer
1.5 Popularity
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
Credits
The Eighth Family
2025
8.8
Yan Yana
as Refik
2025
7.5
Lovers & Liars
as Kadir
2025
8.5
Maria
as Aristotle Onassis
2024
6.5
The Veil
as Mr. Demir
2024
6.6
The Turkish Detective
as Çetin İkmen
2023
5.2
Hot Skull
as Haluk
2022
6.0
Wild Abandon
as Berhudar
2022
6.5
Baba
as Emin Saruhanlı
2022
4.3
Stuck Apart
as Erbil
2021
6.0
Şeref Bey
as Şeref
2021
5.6
Leyla Everlasting
as Adem
2020
3.8
Alex Rider
as Dr. Greif
2020
7.8
Noah Land
as Ibrahim
2019
6.9
Halloween
as Dr. Sartain
2018
6.6
Persona
as Agâh Beyoğlu
2018
8.1
Forget About Nick
as Nick
2017
5.4
Shelter
as Ahmet
2017
5.3
Cingöz Recai
as Başkomiser Mehmet Rıza
2017
4.2
Trendy
as Hasan
2017
7.0
The Bank of Broken Hearts
as Yusuf Yağmur
2017
6.5
The Ottoman Lieutenant
as Khalil Bey
2017
6.1
Black Letter
as Oğuz Karahan
2017
9.7
The Last Schnitzel
as The President
2017
6.9
Innocent
as Cevdet Bayrakçı
2017
7.5
Ben-Hur
as Simonides
2016
5.8
A Long Cold Winter
2014
8.0
Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük Suyu
as Evliya Çelebi (voice)
2014
5.7
Rosewater
as Baba Akbar
2014
6.4
Winter Sleep
as Aydın
2014
7.5
Kaçak
as Faysal Mengen
2013
7.6
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
as Nazmi Kemal
2013
6.6
Hayatımın Rolü
as Müşfik/Yaşar
2012
6.5
Acayip Hikayeler
as Sinan (Gecenin Avcısı)
2012
7.2
Antonius and Cleopatra
as Antonius
2012
8.0
W.E.
as Al Fayed
2011
6.3
İstanbul'un Altınları
as Reşat Altın
2011
6.5
7
2011
5.6
Çanakkale Çocukları
as Kasim
2011
2.8
Cuma'ya Kalsa
as Cuma
2010
4.0
Five Minarets in New York
as Hacı
2010
5.6
7 Husbands for Hurmuz
as Cebrail
2009
6.0
Ezel
as Kenan Birkan
2009
8.4
Sıkı Dostlar
as Hikmet
2009
6.0
The International
as Ahmet Sunay
2009
6.3
A Son of the Sun
as Alper Canan
2008
6.5
Cars of the Revolution
as Necip
2008
7.8
🎬
Nerede Kalmıştık
as Ateş
2008
0.0
Sevgili Dünürüm
as Ahmet
2007
5.5
Police
as Musa Rami
2007
6.7
15 Minutes Over Low Heat
as Muhtar
2006
5.9
Killing the Shadows
as Karagöz
2006
7.0
Yine de Aşığım
as Ali
2005
0.0
Robbery Alla Turca
as Seçkin Doruk
2005
4.6
Yes, Minister
as Samim Bayraktar
2004
0.0
Disappeared
as Inspector Yilmaz
2004
2.7
Where's Firuze?
as Hayri Kalıpçı
2004
7.2
The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World
as King Hattuþili III
2003
5.6
Buffalo Soldiers
as The Turk
2002
6.3
Spooks
as Emre Celenk
2002
7.7
Sweet Life
as İhsan Yıldırım
2001
7.9
Cesur Kuşku
as Cesur
2001
8.5
Running in the Dark
as Ali
2001
6.8
Elephants and Grass
as Sabit Üzücü
2000
6.4
Beans
as Bilge Dede
2000
7.2
Eyvah Kızım Büyüdü
as Sedat Çolak
2000
4.5
Güle Güle
as Zinnur
2000
6.9
Last Harem
as Abdülhamit II
1999
5.4
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert
as Col. Ismet Bay
1999
5.4
Eyvah Babam
as Sedat Çolak
1998
0.0
Innocence
as Bekir
1997
7.7
Sawdust Tales
as Aaron
1997
4.8
Nihavend Mucize
as Erol
1997
4.3
Istanbul Beneath My Wings
as Evliya Çelebi
1996
6.6
The 80th Step
as Savcı
1996
0.0
Gülşen Abi
as Abidin Özbidin / Gülşen Abla
1994
7.2
Amerikalı
1993
4.9
Sıcağı Sıcağına
as Sunucu
1993
6.0
Borsa
as Reha Çalık
1993
0.0
🎬
Son Söz Sevginin
1993
0.0
Two Women
1992
3.5
Cloud in Love
as Atila
1991
8.0
Time of Death
as Ömer
1990
0.0
Gecenin Öteki Yüzü
1987
0.0
Ishtar
as Guerrilla leader
1987
4.5
Ateşten Günler
as Ahmet Rıfkı
1987
8.0
Half Moon Street
as First Arab
1986
5.1
🎬
Murder of a Moderate Man
1985
0.0
EastEnders
as Mehmet Osman
1985
4.1
The Bill
1984
6.7
Bergerac
as Ahmed
1981
6.7
🎬
Beneath the Hagia Sophia
as Narrator
N/A
0.0