Cast & creator
Haluk Bilginer
Best known for EastEnders, The Bill, Spooks
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.
Also known as: Nihat Haluk Bilginer, هالوک بیلگینر
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film credits
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television credits
101
1981–2025 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (102)
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EastEnders
Mehmet Osman
1985
The Bill
1984
Spooks
Emre Celenk
2002
Bergerac
Ahmed
1981
Alex Rider
Dr. Greif
2020
Ezel
Kenan Birkan
2009
Sweet Life
İhsan Yıldırım
2001Sweet Life
2001
Persona
Agâh Beyoğlu
2018
Halloween
Dr. Sartain
2018
The International
Ahmet Sunay
2009
Lovers & Liars
Kadir
2025
The Eighth Family
2025
The Veil
Mr. Demir
2024
Gülşen Abi
Abidin Özbidin / Gülşen Abla
1994
Kaçak
Faysal Mengen
2013
Ben-Hur
Simonides
2016
Baba
Emin Saruhanlı
2022
Sevgili Dünürüm
Ahmet
2007
Maria
Aristotle Onassis
2024
Wild Abandon
Berhudar
2022
Acayip Hikayeler
Sinan (Gecenin Avcısı)
2012
Laf Lafı Açıyor
1991
İstanbul'un Altınları
Reşat Altın
2011
Hot Skull
Haluk
2022
Innocent
Cevdet Bayrakçı
2017
Nerede Kalmıştık
Ateş
2008
Şeref Bey
Şeref
2021
The Ottoman Lieutenant
Khalil Bey
2017
Yan Yana
Refik
2025
Buffalo Soldiers
The Turk
2002Komedi Türkiye
2015
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Nazmi Kemal
2013
Cesur Kuşku
Cesur
2001
The Turkish Detective
Çetin İkmen
2023
Sıkı Dostlar
Hikmet
2009
Winter Sleep
Aydın
2014
Eyvah Kızım Büyüdü
Sedat Çolak
2000
Yine de Aşığım
Ali
2005
W.E.
Al Fayed
2011
The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World
King Hattuþili III
2003
Sıcağı Sıcağına
Sunucu
1993
Five Minarets in New York
Hacı
2010
Ateşten Günler
Ahmet Rıfkı
1987
Borsa
Reha Çalık
1993
Black Letter
Oğuz Karahan
2017
Running in the Dark
Ali
2001
YANLIŞ İÇERİK
2000
Half Moon Street
First Arab
1986
Eyvah Babam
Sedat Çolak
1998
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert
Col. Ismet Bay
1999
Ishtar
Guerrilla leader
1987
Hayatımın Rolü
Müşfik/Yaşar
2012
Last Harem
Abdülhamit II
1999
Gecenin Öteki Yüzü
1987
Two Women
1992
The 80th Step
Savcı
1996
Yes, Minister
Samim Bayraktar
2004
Cuma'ya Kalsa
Cuma
2010
Rosewater
Baba Akbar
2014
Nihavend Mucize
Erol
1997Murder of a Moderate Man
1985
Cingöz Recai
Başkomiser Mehmet Rıza
2017
A Son of the Sun
Alper Canan
2008Son Söz Sevginin
1993The Strange Tale of Gustav Maier
Innocence
Bekir
1997Güneye Giderken
Turgay
Öldürme Üzerine - Acayip Hikayeler
Sinan
2012
Shelter
Ahmet
2017
A Long Cold Winter
2014
Killing the Shadows
Karagöz
2006
Amerikalı
1993
15 Minutes Over Low Heat
Muhtar
2006
The Bank of Broken Hearts
Yusuf Yağmur
2017
Çanakkale Çocukları
Kasim
2011
Disappeared
Inspector Yilmaz
2004
Time of Death
Ömer
1990
Forget About Nick
Nick
2017
7
20117
Translator
2011
Beans
Bilge Dede
2000
Where's Firuze?
Hayri Kalıpçı
2004
Istanbul Beneath My Wings
Evliya Çelebi
1996
7 Husbands for Hurmuz
Cebrail
2009
The Watercolor-Suluboya
2009
Stuck Apart
Erbil
2021
Antonius and Cleopatra
Antonius
2012
Leyla Everlasting
Adem
2020
Trendy
Hasan
2017
Cars of the Revolution
Necip
2008
Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük Suyu
Evliya Çelebi (voice)
2014
Cloud in Love
Atila
1991
Güle Güle
Zinnur
2000
Sawdust Tales
Aaron
1997
The Last Schnitzel
The President
2017
Robbery Alla Turca
Seçkin Doruk
2005
Elephants and Grass
Sabit Üzücü
2000
Noah Land
Ibrahim
2019Beneath the Hagia Sophia
Narrator
Police
Musa Rami
2007