1954Born, İzmir
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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.
Known for
HalloweenDr. Sartain
Ben-HurSimonides
The InternationalAhmet Sunay
Winter SleepAydın
MariaAristotle Onassis2025The Eighth Family8 episodesShow
2025Yan YanaRefikMovie
2025Lovers & LiarsKadir · 22 episodesShow
2024MariaAristotle OnassisMovie
2024The VeilMr. Demir · 1 episodeShow
2024A Long Cold WinterMovie
2023The Turkish DetectiveÇetin İkmen · 8 episodesShow
2022Hot SkullHaluk · 4 episodesShow
2022Wild AbandonBerhudar · 8 episodesShow
2022BabaEmin Saruhanlı · 30 episodesShow
2021Stuck ApartErbilMovie
2021Şeref BeyŞeref · 10 episodesShow
2020Leyla EverlastingAdemMovie
2020Alex RiderDr. Greif · 7 episodesShow
2019Noah LandIbrahimMovie
2018HalloweenDr. SartainMovie
2018PersonaAgâh Beyoğlu · 22 episodesShow
2017Forget About NickNickMovie
2017ShelterAhmetMovie
2017Cingöz RecaiBaşkomiser Mehmet RızaMovie
2017TrendyHasanMovie
2017The Bank of Broken HeartsYusuf YağmurMovie
2017The Ottoman LieutenantKhalil BeyMovie
2017Black LetterOğuz Karahan · 6 episodesShow
2017The Last SchnitzelThe PresidentMovie
2017InnocentCevdet Bayrakçı · 8 episodesShow
2016Ben-HurSimonidesMovie
2014A Long Cold WinterMovie
2014Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük SuyuEvliya Çelebi (voice)Movie
2014RosewaterBaba AkbarMovie
2014Winter SleepAydınMovie
2013KaçakFaysal Mengen · 18 episodesShow
2013The Reluctant FundamentalistNazmi KemalMovie
2012Hayatımın RolüMüşfik/Yaşar · 19 episodesShow
2012Öldürme Üzerine - Acayip HikayelerSinanMovie
2012Acayip HikayelerSinan (Gecenin Avcısı) · 1 episodeShow
2012Antonius and CleopatraAntoniusMovie
2011W.E.Al FayedMovie
2011İstanbul'un AltınlarıReşat Altın · 16 episodesShow
20117TranslatorMovie
2011Çanakkale ÇocuklarıKasimMovie
2010Cuma'ya KalsaCuma · 12 episodesShow
2010Five Minarets in New YorkHacıMovie
20097 Husbands for HurmuzCebrailMovie
2009The Watercolor-SuluboyaMovie
2009EzelKenan Birkan · 38 episodesShow
2009Sıkı DostlarHikmet · 23 episodesShow
2009The InternationalAhmet SunayMovie
2008A Son of the SunAlper CananMovie
2008Cars of the RevolutionNecipMovie
2008Nerede KalmıştıkAteş · 13 episodesShow
2007Sevgili DünürümAhmet · 21 episodesShow
2007PoliceMusa RamiMovie
200615 Minutes Over Low HeatMuhtarMovie
2006Killing the ShadowsKaragözMovie
2005Yine de AşığımAli · 12 episodesShow
2005Robbery Alla TurcaSeçkin DorukMovie
2004Yes, MinisterSamim Bayraktar · 14 episodesShow
2004DisappearedInspector YilmazMovie
2004Where's Firuze?Hayri KalıpçıMovie
2003The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the WorldKing Hattuþili IIIMovie
2002Buffalo SoldiersThe TurkMovie
2002SpooksEmre Celenk · 1 episodeShow
2001Sweet Lifeİhsan Yıldırım · 106 episodesShow
2001Cesur KuşkuCesur · 6 episodesShow
2001Running in the DarkAli · 10 episodesShow
2000Elephants and GrassSabit ÜzücüMovie
2000BeansBilge DedeMovie
2000Eyvah Kızım BüyüdüSedat Çolak · 34 episodesShow
2000Güle GüleZinnurMovie
1999Last HaremAbdülhamit IIMovie
1999The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the DesertCol. Ismet BayMovie
1998Eyvah BabamSedat Çolak · 39 episodesShow
1997InnocenceBekirMovie
1997Sawdust TalesAaronMovie
1997Nihavend MucizeErolMovie
1996Istanbul Beneath My WingsEvliya ÇelebiMovie
1996The 80th StepSavcıMovie
1994Gülşen AbiAbidin Özbidin / Gülşen Abla · 115 episodesShow
1993AmerikalıMovie
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