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Nihat Haluk Bilginer 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.
Birth Name
Nihat Haluk Bilginer
Born
Saturday, 05 June 1954
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Turkish Detective | Cetin Ikmen | 2023 |
| Hot Skull | Haluk | 2022 |
| Baba | Emin Saruhanli / Emin Saruhanlı | 2022 |
| Halloween Kills | Dr. Ranbir Sartain | 2021 |
| Stuck Apart | Erbil | 2021 |
| Seref Bey | Seref / Şeref | 2021 |
| Leyla Everlasting | Adem | 2020 |
| Alex Rider | Dr. Greif | 2020 |
| Noah Land | Ibrahim | 2019 |
| Halloween | Dr. Sartain / Dr. Ranbir Sartain | 2018 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Turkish Detective | Cetin Ikmen | 2023 |
| Hot Skull | Haluk | 2022 |
| Baba | Emin Saruhanli / Emin Saruhanlı | 2022 |
| Halloween Kills | Dr. Ranbir Sartain | 2021 |
| Stuck Apart | Erbil | 2021 |
| Seref Bey | Seref / Şeref | 2021 |
| Leyla Everlasting | Adem | 2020 |
| Alex Rider | Dr. Greif | 2020 |
| Noah Land | Ibrahim | 2019 |
| Halloween | Dr. Sartain / Dr. Ranbir Sartain | 2018 |
| Persona | Agâh Beyoglu | 2018 |
| Shelter | Ahmet | 2018 |
| Forget About Nick | Nick | 2017 |
| Cingöz Recai | Baskomiser Mehmet Riza / Başkomiser Mehmet Rıza | 2017 |
| Trendy | Hasan | 2017 |
| Kirik Kalpler Bankasi | Yusuf Yagmur / Yusuf Yağmur | 2017 |
| The Last Schnitzel | The President | 2017 |
| Masum | Cevdet Bayrakci | 2017 |
| Ben-Hur | Simonides | 2016 |
| New Blood | John Malik | 2016 |
| The Ottoman Lieutenant | Khalil Bey | 2016 |
| Evliya Çelebi: The Fountain of Youth | Evliya Çelebi / Evliya Çelebi (voice) | 2014 |
| Rosewater | Baba Akbar | 2014 |
| Winter Sleep | Aydin / Aydın | 2014 |
| Escape | Faysal Mengen / Ustura Faysal | 2013 |
| The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Nazmi Kemal | 2013 |
| Hayatımın Rolü | Müşfik/Yaşar | 2012 |
| Acayip Hikayeler | Sinan | 2012 |
| W.E. | Mohamed Al-Fayed / Al Fayed | 2011 |
| Wild Abandon | Berhudar | 2011 |
| Çanakkale Çocuklari | Kasim | 2011 |
| Act of Vengeance | Hadji / Hacı | 2010 |
| 7 Husbands for Hurmuz | Cebrail | 2009 |
| The Watercolor | 2009 | |
| Ezel | Kenan Birkan | 2009 |
| The International | Ahmet Sunay | 2009 |
| Günesin Oglu | Alper Canan | 2008 |
| Cars of the Revolution | Necip | 2008 |
| Sevgili Dünürüm | Ahmet | 2007 |
| Police | Musa Rami | 2007 |
| Kisik Ateste 15 Dakika | Muhtar | 2006 |
| Killing the Shadows | Karagöz | 2006 |
| Robbery Alla Turca | Seçkin / Seçkin Doruk | 2005 |
| Disappeared | Inspector Yilmaz | 2004 |
| Where's Firuze? | Hayri / Hayri Kalıpçı | 2004 |
| Hittites | King III. Hattuþili | 2003 |
| Buffalo Soldiers | The Turk | 2002 |
| MI-5 | Emre Celenk | 2002 |
| Karanlikta Kosanlar | Ali | 2001 |
| Filler ve Çimen | Sabit Üzücü | 2001 |
| Dadi | Haluk Bilginer | 2001 |
| Beans | Bilge Dede | 2000 |
| Eyvah Kızım Büyüdü | Sedat | 2000 |
| Güle Güle | Zinnur | 2000 |
| The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert | Col. Ismet Bey / Col. Ismet Bay | 1999 |
| Harem Suare | Abdulhamit / Abdülhamit II | 1999 |
| Sawdust Tales | Aaron | 1997 |
| Innocence | Bekir | 1997 |
| Nihavend Mucize | Erol | 1997 |
| 80. Adim | Savci | 1996 |
| Istanbul Beneath My Wings | Evliya Çelebi | 1996 |
| Iki Kadin | Metin | 1992 |
| The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Colonel Ismet Bey | 1992 |
| Memories of Midnight | Dino Mattusi | 1991 |
| Lionheart | Merchant | 1987 |
| Ishtar | Guerrilla leader | 1987 |
| Half Moon Street | First Arab | 1986 |
| The Glory Boys | Taxi driver | 1984 |
| The Brief | Olly | 1984 |
| Bergerac | Ahmed | 1981 |
