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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1954-06-06
Place of birth
İzmir, Turkey
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Cast
Innocence
1997
7.70
A Son of the Sun
2008
6.50
Sawdust Tales
1997
5.40
7 Husbands for Hurmuz
2009
5.90
Police
2007
6.70
Robbery Alla Turca
2005
4.60
Killing the Shadows
2006
7.02
Five Minarets in New York
2010
5.53
Cars of the Revolution
2008
7.76
W.E.
2011
6.40
7
2011
5.60
15 Minutes Over Low Heat
2006
5.90
Where's Firuze?
2004
7.10
Çanakkale Çocukları
2011
2.80
The 80th Step
1996
0.00
Elephants and Grass
2000
6.40
Rosewater
2014
6.50
Antonius and Cleopatra
2012
8.00
Maria
2024
6.44
Winter Sleep
2014
7.53
Ölürayak
1990
0.00
Beans
2000
7.30
Half Moon Street
1986
5.10
Ishtar
1987
4.50
Güle Güle
2000
6.90
Two Women
1992
3.50
Nihavend Mucize
1997
4.30
Ben-Hur
2016
5.75
The Ottoman Lieutenant
2017
6.14
The Bank of Broken Hearts
2017
6.60
Istanbul Beneath My Wings
1996
6.60
The International
2009
6.25
Cingöz Recai
2017
4.20
Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük Suyu
2014
5.70
Forget About Nick
2017
5.60
Shelter
2017
5.50
Cloud in Love
1991
8.00
Halloween
2018
6.60
The Last Schnitzel
2017
6.91
Buffalo Soldiers
2002
6.27
Noah Land
2019
6.90
Trendy
2017
7.00
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2013
6.60
A Long Cold Winter
2014
8.00
Stuck Apart
2021
6.10
Last Harem
1999
5.60
Leyla Everlasting
2020
3.74
Disappeared
2004
3.50
Amerikalı
1993
4.70