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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.624 |
| Birthday | 1954-06-06 |
| Place of Birth | İzmir, Turkey |
| Also Known As | Nihat Haluk Bilginer, |
1997
Innocence
7.8/107
Yusuf is released from prison after serving a ten year sentence. Because of unexpected problems at his sister’s house, he finds himself in a cheap hot...
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Innocence
2008
A Son of the Sun
6.547/32
Although it sounds good in theory, the miracle of becoming the Son of the Sun doesn't in practice turn out the way Fikri Şemsigil expects. His whole l...
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A Son of the Sun
1997
Sawdust Tales
5.4/5
Sawdust Tales is a whimsical and timeless parable on survival in hard times and the force of a first love against all odds. In a timeless no-mans land...
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Sawdust Tales
2009
7 Husbands for Hurmuz
6/39
Remake of a well-known Turkish musical comedy loved by generations, the film is about the adventures of flirtatious Hurmuz in late 1800's Istanbul. Hu...
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7 Husbands for Hurmuz
2007
Police
6.9/34
Musa Rami, who has become a legend with his struggle against the mafia, is a police officer at homicide division. One day prior to celebrating his 63r...
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Police
2005
Robbery Alla Turca
4.9/28
With the death of a billionaire engaged in illegal practices, his billion-dollar fortune is up for the grabs. As his art collection is being prepared...
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Robbery Alla Turca
2006
Killing the Shadows
7.081/74
Killing The Shadows is a bawdy comic fable set in the Ottoman Empire during the mid-14th century based on two legendary figures in Turkish folkore, th...
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Killing the Shadows
2010
Five Minarets in New York
5.619/126
Two Turkish anti-terrorist agents are sent to New York City on a mission to find and bring back the dangerous Islamic leader codenamed "Dajjal", belie...
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Five Minarets in New York
2008
Cars of the Revolution
7.7/71
In the years of military coup, Turkey was unable to produce its own cars. But Pasha believed that Turkish people can produce their own cars so he orde...
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Cars of the Revolution
2011
W.E.
6.412/283
In 1998, an auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor causes great excitement. For one woman, Wally Winthrop, it has much more meaning....
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W.E.
2011
7
5.6/4
A musical based on the works of William Shakespeare, describing the 7 ages in two acts.
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7
2006
15 Minutes Over Low Heat
5.9/14
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15 Minutes Over Low Heat
2004
Where's Firuze?
7.1/81
Hayri and Orhan are two music producers head over heels in debt. In an attempt to find the next big thing to turn the business around, they contact Fe...
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Where's Firuze?
2011
Çanakkale Çocukları
3.2/5
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Çanakkale Çocukları
Beneath the Hagia Sophia
0/0
A documentary about Hagia Sophia. But somewhere nobody seen or filmed before. Cisterns, wells and passages beneath the Hagia Sophia
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Beneath the Hagia Sophia
1996
The 80th Step
0/0
The story of a group of former activist friends who came together after September 12 and questioned the past.
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The 80th Step
2000
Elephants and Grass
6.4/19
Elephants and Grass (Turkish: Filler ve Çimen) is a 2001 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Derviş Zaim, about six different stories that mer...
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Elephants and Grass
2014
Rosewater
6.491/173
In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country...
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Rosewater
2012
Antonius and Cleopatra
8/1
While enjoying his relationship with Cleopatra, Antony neglects his Roman responsibilities, angering Octavian Caesar. Cleopatra rejoices when Antony's...
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Antonius and Cleopatra
2024
Maria
0/0
1977: Maria Callas, once the world's greatest opera diva, lives in seclusion in Paris with her staff and her two poodles. Her health is getting worse...
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Maria
2014
Winter Sleep
7.585/541
Aydın is a hotel owner and a retired actor in rural Turkey. As winter emerges he begins navigating the conflicts within the relationships with his wif...
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Winter Sleep
1990
Ölürayak
0/0
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Ölürayak
2000
Beans
7.2/18
The duty of taking the tax return forms of the villagers to the big city is assigned to a naive young guy. The villagers trust him, and hand their tax...
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Beans
1986
Half Moon Street
5/51
Dr. Lauren Slaughter, a research fellow at the Arab-Anglo Institute in London is utterly frustrated by her job. To supplement her income, she starts m...
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Half Moon Street
1987
Ishtar
4.5/144
Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the...
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Ishtar
2000
Güle Güle
6.9/11
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Güle Güle
1992
Two Women
3.5/2
A prostitute lays a rape charge against a politician and an unexpected friendship develops between her and the politician's wife.
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Two Women
1997
Nihavend Mucize
4.3/7
Directed by Atif Yilmaz.
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Nihavend Mucize
2016
Ben-Hur
5.7/1649
A falsely accused nobleman survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his best friend who betrayed him.
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Ben-Hur
2017
The Ottoman Lieutenant
6.161/252
Lillie, a determined American woman, ventures overseas to join Dr. Jude at a remote medical mission in the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey). However, Lilli...
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The Ottoman Lieutenant
2003
The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World
6.3/6
This is the glorious story of the Hittites - the most powerful people in the Near East of their time. Narrated by Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons, "...
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The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World
2017
The Bank of Broken Hearts
6.6/13
Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set in Istanbul, the tragic story of three heroes chasing an unlikely dream, running towards their sa...
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The Bank of Broken Hearts
1996
Istanbul Beneath My Wings
6.5/31
During the sea battle which took place between the Ottoman Empire and the Italians, a ship which had been seized in the Mediterranean Sea is brought t...
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Istanbul Beneath My Wings
2009
The International
6.2/1239
An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading...
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The International
2017
Cingöz Recai
4.3/47
An ex-thief returns for the revange of his father's murder makes an intelligent plan to reach the killer, a godfather named as Ghost. During his robbe...
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Cingöz Recai
2014
Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük Suyu
5.7/3
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Evliya Çelebi ve Ölümsüzlük Suyu
2017
Forget About Nick
5.6/20
Against the backdrop of New York's dazzling fashion scene, a woman in the process of transforming herself from a model into a designer is forced to li...
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Forget About Nick
2017
Shelter
5.5/30
Naomi, an Israeli Mossad agent, is sent to Germany to protect Mona, a Lebanese informant recovering from plastic surgery to assume her new identity. T...
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Shelter
1991
Cloud in Love
8/1
After martial law is declared, Sibel is taken in. Sibel, who has completely lost her self after the torture, tries to hold on to life. But her husband...
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Cloud in Love
2018
Halloween
6.6/4705
Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree...
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Halloween
2017
The Last Schnitzel
6.8/15
The world is ending, but the president of The Grand Turkish Republic won’t let that happen until he has a chicken schnitzel. Gleefully silly science f...
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The Last Schnitzel
1999
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert
5.1/21
Receiving orders to assist the British in an attack on the ancient Middle Eastern desert town of Beersheba, Indy goes undercover with a beautiful lady...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert
2002
Buffalo Soldiers
6.2/308
A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.
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Buffalo Soldiers
2019
Noah Land
6.929/35
Suffering through a mid-life crisis, Omer has to face the angry villagers in order to realize his estranged father's dying wish to be buried under the...
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Noah Land
2017
Trendy
7/3
Richard, a 30 year-old teacher, moves to East London, where he discovers gentrification: hipsters meet cockneys and immigrants in a tense environment....
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Trendy
2013
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
6.624/210
In New York, a Pakistani native finds that his American Dream has collapsed in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2014
A Long Cold Winter
8/2
A documentary about the shooting session of the film "Winter Sleep" by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. 'Winter Sleep' had been shot in about 14 weeks in Cappadocia...
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A Long Cold Winter
2021
Stuck Apart
6.132/57
Entrenched in a midlife crisis, Aziz seeks solace from his mundane job, lonesome friends and rowdy family while pretending to have his act together.
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Stuck Apart
1999
Last Harem
5.6/51
A story of the impossible love between one of the Sultan's concubines and one of his eunuchs in a harem at the end of the Ottoman Empire.
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Last Harem
2020
Leyla Everlasting
3.841/41
A resilient housewife, her husband and their marriage therapist become mired in a toxic love triangle and a plot to obtain an antique manuscript.
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Leyla Everlasting
2004
Disappeared
3.5/2
Harry Sands is a self made man, happily married with two children. When he learns that his daughter has gone missing in Istanbul, he flies out to find...
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