
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.

as Refik

as Aristotle Onassis

as Erbil

as Adem

as Ibrahim

as Dr. Sartain

as Nick

as Ahmet

as Başkomiser Mehmet Rıza

as Hasan

as Yusuf Yağmur

as Khalil Bey

as The President

as Simonides

as Evliya Çelebi (voice)

as Baba Akbar

as Aydın

as Nazmi Kemal

as Antonius

as Al Fayed

as Kasim

as Hacı

as Cebrail

as Ahmet Sunay

as Alper Canan

as Necip

as Musa Rami

as Muhtar

as Karagöz

as Seçkin Doruk

as Inspector Yilmaz

as Hayri Kalıpçı

as King Hattuþili III

as The Turk

as Sabit Üzücü

as Bilge Dede

as Zinnur

as Abdülhamit II

as Col. Ismet Bay

as Bekir

as Aaron

as Erol

as Evliya Çelebi

as Savcı

as Atila

as Ömer

as Guerrilla leader

as First Arab

as Narrator

as Turgay