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Haluk Bilginer

Haluk Bilginer

Known For Acting
Birthday Jun 05, 1954 (71)
Birthplace İzmir, Turkey
Popularity 1 (history)
Updated Jun 22, 2025
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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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.

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Filmography

Maria

Maria

2024

as Aristotle Onassis

Halloween

Halloween

2018

as Dr. Sartain

Shelter

Shelter

2017

as Ahmet

The Ottoman Lieutenant

The Ottoman Lieutenant

2017

as Khalil Bey

Trendy

Trendy

2017

as Hasan

Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur

2016

as Simonides

Rosewater

Rosewater

2014

as Baba Akbar

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

2013

as Nazmi Kemal

W.E.

W.E.

2011

as Al Fayed

The International

The International

2009

as Ahmet Sunay

Disappeared

Disappeared

2004

as Inspector Yilmaz

Buffalo Soldiers

Buffalo Soldiers

2002

as The Turk

Ishtar

Ishtar

1987

as Guerrilla leader

Half Moon Street

Half Moon Street

1986

as First Arab

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Organization Category Movie
Television Credits

EastEnders

as Mehmet Osman

Episodes: 3856

First Aired: Feb 19, 1985

Gülşen Abi

as Abidin Özbidin / Gülşen Abla

Episodes: 115

First Aired: Jan 01, 1994

Sweet Life

as İhsan Yıldırım

Episodes: 106

First Aired: Nov 01, 2001

Eyvah Babam

as Sedat Çolak

Episodes: 39

First Aired: Oct 03, 1998

Ezel

as Kenan Birkan

Episodes: 38

First Aired: Sep 28, 2009

Eyvah Kızım Büyüdü

as Sedat Çolak

Episodes: 34

First Aired: Mar 22, 2000

Sıcağı Sıcağına

as Sunucu

Episodes: 32

First Aired: May 05, 1993

Baba

as Emin Saruhanlı

Episodes: 30

First Aired: Feb 15, 2022

Sıkı Dostlar

as Hikmet

Episodes: 23

First Aired: Feb 21, 2009

Persona

as Agâh Beyoğlu

Episodes: 22

First Aired: Mar 17, 2018

Sevgili Dünürüm

as Ahmet

Episodes: 21

First Aired: Oct 19, 2007

Hayatımın Rolü

as Müşfik/Yaşar

Episodes: 19

First Aired: Jul 09, 2012

Kaçak

as Faysal Mengen

Episodes: 18

First Aired: Sep 24, 2013

İstanbul'un Altınları

as Reşat Altın

Episodes: 16

First Aired: Aug 05, 2011

Yes, Minister

as Samim Bayraktar

Episodes: 14

First Aired: Oct 01, 2004

Nerede Kalmıştık

as Ateş

Episodes: 13

First Aired: Sep 25, 2008

Yine de Aşığım

as Ali

Episodes: 12

First Aired: Oct 28, 2005

Cuma'ya Kalsa

as Cuma

Episodes: 12

First Aired: Apr 19, 2010

Running in the Dark

as Ali

Episodes: 10

First Aired: Sep 08, 2001

Şeref Bey

as Şeref

Episodes: 10

First Aired: Jan 01, 2021

Innocent

as Cevdet Bayrakçı

Episodes: 8

First Aired: Jan 27, 2017

Wild Abandon

as Berhudar

Episodes: 8

First Aired: Mar 30, 2022

The Turkish Detective

as Çetin İkmen

Episodes: 8

First Aired: Dec 15, 2023

Alex Rider

as Dr. Greif

Episodes: 7

First Aired: Nov 12, 2020

Cesur Kuşku

as Cesur

Episodes: 6

First Aired: Oct 11, 2001

Black Letter

as Oğuz Karahan

Episodes: 6

First Aired: Mar 28, 2017

Ateşten Günler

as Ahmet Rıfkı

Episodes: 4

First Aired: Feb 05, 1987

Hot Skull

as Haluk

Episodes: 4

First Aired: Dec 02, 2022

Bergerac

as Ahmed

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 18, 1981

Spooks

as Emre Celenk

Episodes: 1

First Aired: May 13, 2002

Acayip Hikayeler

as Sinan (Gecenin Avcısı)

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 13, 2012

The Veil

as Mr. Demir

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 30, 2024

Murder of a Moderate Man

Episodes: 5

First Aired: Aug 06, 1985

Gecenin Öteki Yüzü

Episodes: 3

First Aired: Dec 10, 1987

The Bill

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 16, 1984

Son Söz Sevginin

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 01, 1993

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