Actor profile
Haluk Bilginer
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.
54 Movies
43 TV Shows
97 Credits
Filmography
Movies & TV Shows
A Long Cold Winter
31st December 2014
7
7th June 2011
The Watercolor-Suluboya
13th November 2009
Amerikalı
8th October 1993
Two Women
1st January 1992
Beneath the Hagia Sophia
as Narrator
The Eighth Family
19th November 2025
Komedi Türkiye
18th March 2015
YANLIŞ İÇERİK
7th March 2000
Son Söz Sevginin
1st January 1993
Laf Lafı Açıyor
20th September 1991
Gecenin Öteki Yüzü
10th December 1987
Murder of a Moderate Man
6th August 1985
The Bill
16th October 1984