
İzmir, Turkey
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 Mehmet Osman
1985

as Emre Celenk
2002

1984

as Ahmed
1981

as Dr. Greif
2020

as Kenan Birkan
2009

as Kadir
2025

2025

as Dr. Sartain
2018

as Cevdet Bayrakçı
2017

as Emin Saruhanlı
2022

as Mr. Demir
2024
as Erbil
2021

as Refik
2025

as Aristotle Onassis
2024

as Erbil
2021

as Adem
2020

as Ibrahim
2019

as Dr. Sartain
2018

as Nick
2017

as Ahmet
2017

as Başkomiser Mehmet Rıza
2017

as Hasan
2017

as Yusuf Yağmur
2017

as Khalil Bey
2017

as The President
2017

as Simonides
2016

2014

as Evliya Çelebi (voice)
2014

as Baba Akbar
2014

as Aydın
2014

as Nazmi Kemal
2013

as Antonius
2012

as Al Fayed
2011

2011

as Kasim
2011

as Hacı
2010
1 ep.

as Mehmet Osman
3854 episodes

as Emre Celenk
1 episodes

1 episodes

as Ahmed
1 episodes

as Dr. Greif
7 episodes

as Kenan Birkan
38 episodes

as Kadir
22 episodes

8 episodes

as Cevdet Bayrakçı
8 episodes

as Emin Saruhanlı
30 episodes

as Mr. Demir
1 episodes

as Faysal Mengen
18 episodes

as Agâh Beyoğlu
22 episodes

as Abidin Özbidin / Gülşen Abla
115 episodes

as İhsan Yıldırım
106 episodes

as Sunucu
32 episodes

as Haluk
4 episodes

as Sinan (Gecenin Avcısı)
1 episodes

as Berhudar
8 episodes

as Çetin İkmen
8 episodes

as Oğuz Karahan
6 episodes

as Ali
10 episodes

1 episodes

as Sedat Çolak
39 episodes