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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1954-06-06 (70 years old)

Place of Birth

İzmir, Turkey

Haluk Bilginer

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

Acting

2024

Maria as Aristotle Onassis
The Veil as Mr. Demir

2023

The Turkish Detective as Çetin İkmen

2022

Baba as Emin Saruhanlı
Wild Abandon as Berhudar
Hot Skull as Haluk

2021

Stuck Apart as Erbil
Şeref Bey as Şeref

2020

Alex Rider as Dr. Greif

2019

Noah Land as Ibrahim

2018

Halloween as Dr. Sartain
Persona as Agâh Beyoğlu

2017

The Bank of Broken Hearts as Yusuf Yağmur
Cingöz Recai as Başkomiser Mehmet Rıza
Shelter as Ahmet
The Last Schnitzel as The President
Trendy as Hasan
Innocent as Cevdet Bayrakçı
Black Letter as Oğuz Karahan

2016

Ben-Hur as Simonides

2014

Rosewater as Baba Akbar
Winter Sleep as Aydın
Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük Suyu as Evliya Çelebi (voice)

2013

Kaçak as Faysal Mengen

2012

Acayip Hikayeler as Sinan (Gecenin Avcısı)
Hayatımın Rolü as Müşfik/Yaşar

2011

W.E. as Al Fayed
İstanbul'un Altınları as Reşat Altın

2010

2009

The International as Ahmet Sunay
Ezel as Kenan Birkan
Sıkı Dostlar as Hikmet

2008

A Son of the Sun as Alper Canan

2007

Police as Musa Rami

2006

2005

Robbery Alla Turca as Seçkin Doruk

2004

Where's Firuze? as Hayri Kalıpçı
Disappeared as Inspector Yilmaz
Yes, Minister as Samim Bayraktar

2003

2002

Buffalo Soldiers as The Turk
Spooks as Emre Celenk

2001

Sweet Life as İhsan Yıldırım
Cesur Kuşku as Cesur

2000

Elephants and Grass as Sabit Üzücü
Beans as Bilge Dede
Güle Güle as Zinnur
Eyvah Kızım Büyüdü as Sedat Çolak

1999

Last Harem as Abdülhamit II

1998

Eyvah Babam as Sedat Çolak

1997

Innocence as Bekir
Sawdust Tales as Aaron

1996

The 80th Step as Savcı
Istanbul Beneath My Wings as Evliya Çelebi

1994

Gülşen Abi as Abidin Özbidin / Gülşen Abla

1993

1992

1991

Cloud in Love as Atila

1990

Ölürayak as Ömer

1987

Ishtar as Guerrilla leader
Ateşten Günler as Ahmet Rıfkı

1986

Half Moon Street as First Arab

1985

EastEnders as Mehmet Osman

1984

1981

Bergerac as Ahmed

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Crew

2011

7 as Translator