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.
Born: June 5, 1954
Place of Birth: İzmir, Turkey
Known For
Black Letter
It is the story of Yaren Ulucinar, the only dream of Mehmet Karahan, who grew up by the physical violence of his lover's father and raised his own cosmetics company and won the appreciation of his father, and the only dream of trying to take care of two sisters and depriving his two sisters because of his father's honor obsession.
Sekizinci Aile
With their invention of bulletproof thermal underwear, the Basmacıgil Family earns the title of the Eighth Family, one of the ruling forces of the world. Yet, as six very different siblings attempt to run the family business, their well-meaning but ineffective efforts leave their father Erol convinced that “no outside enemy is necessary."
Cesur Kuşku
Ezel
Ömer, a young man returning from military service, is set up by his friends and fiancé and ends up in prison for ten years. He fakes his own death and manages to escape. He re-creates himself as ‘Ezel’, a high-end gambler who is outwardly a successful man, but inwardly driven by one thing - his determination to understand why the people he loved betrayed him, and take his revenge.
Persona
After being diagnosed with Alzheimer's, a retired judicial officer decides to commit a murder that he had been planning for years.
Antonius and Cleopatra
While enjoying his relationship with Cleopatra, Antony neglects his Roman responsibilities, angering Octavian Caesar. Cleopatra rejoices when Antony's wife dies, but Antony's desire for political advancement leads him to marry Caesar's sister. The fragile peace that emerges is short-lived, as Antony returns to Egypt, leading to full-scale war.
Cloud in Love
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 Atilla's questions about what happened in Sibel's custody will become frequent.
A Long Cold Winter
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 region of Anatolia.
Ateşten Günler
Sweet Life
A Turkish remake of "The Jeffersons". With Ihsan Yildirim's cleaning business booming, he insisted his family leave the "plain folks" and move up to Etiler with the "fancy folks." It is Ihsan's hope that relocation and his newly acquired wealth will mean the end of his problems in general and his troubles with neighbors in specific. But life in a luxurious high rise holds some unexpected pitfalls for the Yildirims, including Basar's struggle to convince his father that his marriage into a Turkish-Greek mixed family is cause for celebration, not disappointment. All events in Yildirim's lives is accompanied by its share of problems, confusion and most of all humor.
Filmography
as Kadir
as Aristotle Onassis
as Mr. Demir
as Çetin İkmen
as Haluk
as Berhudar
as Emin Saruhanlı
as Erbil
as Şeref
as Adem
as Dr. Greif
as Ibrahim
as Dr. Sartain
as Agâh Beyoğlu
as Nick
as Ahmet
as Başkomiser Mehmet Rıza
as Hasan
as Yusuf Yağmur
as Oğuz Karahan
as Khalil Bey
as The President
as Cevdet Bayrakçı
as Simonides
as Evliya Çelebi (voice)
as Baba Akbar
as Aydın
as Faysal Mengen
as Nazmi Kemal
as Müşfik/Yaşar
as Sinan (Gecenin Avcısı)
as Antonius
as Al Fayed
as Reşat Altın
as Kasim
as Cuma
as Hacı
as Cebrail
as Kenan Birkan
as Hikmet
as Ahmet Sunay
as Alper Canan
as Necip
as Ateş
as Ahmet
as Musa Rami
as Muhtar
as Karagöz
as Ali
as Seçkin Doruk
as Samim Bayraktar
as Inspector Yilmaz
as Hayri Kalıpçı
as King Hattuþili III
as The Turk
as Emre Celenk
as İhsan Yıldırım
as Cesur
as Ali
as Sabit Üzücü
as Bilge Dede
as Sedat Çolak
as Zinnur
as Abdülhamit II
as Col. Ismet Bay
as Sedat Çolak
as Bekir
as Aaron
as Erol
as Evliya Çelebi
as Savcı
as Abidin Özbidin / Gülşen Abla
as Sunucu
as Reha Çalık
as Atila
as Ömer
as Guerrilla leader
as Ahmet Rıfkı
as First Arab
as Mehmet Osman
as Ahmed