Haluk Bilginer

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1954-06-05 (71 years old)

Place of Birth

İzmir, Turkey

Haluk Bilginer

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 ...

Acting

1997

Innocence

as Bekir

2008

A Son of the Sun

as Alper Canan

1997

2009

2007

Police

as Musa Rami

2005

Robbery Alla Turca

as Seçkin Doruk

2006

2011

W.E.

as Al Fayed

2011

2004

Where's Firuze?

as Hayri Kalıpçı

1996

The 80th Step

as Savcı

2000

Elephants and Grass

as Sabit Üzücü

2014

Rosewater

as Baba Akbar

2012

2024

Maria

as Aristotle Onassis

2014

Winter Sleep

as Aydın

1990

2000

Beans

as Bilge Dede

1986

Half Moon Street

as First Arab

1987

Ishtar

as Guerrilla leader

2000

Güle Güle

as Zinnur

1997

2016

Ben-Hur

as Simonides

2017

2017

1996

Istanbul Beneath My Wings

as Evliya Çelebi

2009

The International

as Ahmet Sunay

2017

Cingöz Recai

as Başkomiser Mehmet Rıza

2014

Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük Suyu

as Evliya Çelebi (voice)

2017

Shelter

as Ahmet

1991

2018

Halloween

as Dr. Sartain

2017

The Last Schnitzel

as The President

2002

Buffalo Soldiers

as The Turk

2019

Noah Land

as Ibrahim

2017

Trendy

as Hasan

2021

Stuck Apart

as Erbil

1999

Last Harem

as Abdülhamit II

2004

Disappeared

as Inspector Yilmaz

Production

2011

7

as Translator

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