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Haluk Bilginer

Acting

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.

Haluk Bilginer

Biography

Films Featuring Haluk Bilginer

Innocence

A Son of the Sun

Sawdust Tales

7 Husbands for Hurmuz

Police

Robbery Alla Turca

Killing the Shadows

Five Minarets in New York

Cars of the Revolution

W.E.

7

15 Minutes Over Low Heat

Where's Firuze?

Çanakkale Çocukları

Beneath the Hagia Sophia

The 80th Step

Elephants and Grass

Rosewater

Antonius and Cleopatra

Maria

Winter Sleep

Time of Death

Beans

Half Moon Street

Ishtar

Güle Güle

Two Women

Nihavend Mucize

Ben-Hur

The Ottoman Lieutenant

The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World

The Bank of Broken Hearts

Istanbul Beneath My Wings

The International

Cingöz Recai

Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük Suyu

Forget About Nick

Shelter

Cloud in Love

Halloween

The Last Schnitzel

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert

Buffalo Soldiers

Noah Land

Trendy

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

A Long Cold Winter

Stuck Apart

Last Harem

Leyla Everlasting

Disappeared

Amerikalı

Yan Yana

The Watercolor-Suluboya

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