Rutger Hauer
Rutger Oelsen Hauer (January 23, 1944 – July 19, 2019) was a Dutch film actor. He was well known for his roles in Flesh + Blood, Blind Fury, Blade Runner, The Hitcher, Nighthawks, Sin City, Ladyhawke, The Blood of Heroes and Batman Begins. Hauer was born in Breukelen, Netherlands, to drama teachers Arend and Teunke, and grew up in Amsterdam. Since his parents were very occupied with their careers, he and his three sisters (one older, two younger) were raised mostly by nannies. At the age of 15, Hauer ran off to sea and spent a year scrubbing decks aboard a freighter. Returning home, he worked as an electrician and a carpenter for three years while attending acting classes at night school. He went on to join an experimental troupe, with which he remained for five years before he was cast in the lead role in the very successful 1969 television series Floris, a Dutch Ivanhoe-like medieval action drama. The role made him famous in his native country. Hauer's career changed course when director Paul Verhoeven cast him as the lead in Turkish Delight (1973) (based on the Jan Wolkers book of the same name). The movie found box-office favour abroad as well as at home, and within two years, its star was invited to make his English-language debut in the British film The Wilby Conspiracy (1975). Set in South Africa and starring Michael Caine and Sidney Poitier, the film was an action melodrama with a focus on apartheid. Hauer's supporting role, however, was barely noticed in Hollywood, and he returned to Dutch films for several years. Hauer made his American debut in the Sylvester Stallone vehicle Nighthawks (1981), cast as a psychopathic and cold-blooded terrorist named "Wolfgar" (after a character in the Old English poem Beowulf). The following year, he appeared in arguably his most famous and acclaimed role as the eccentric, violent, yet sympathetic replicant Roy Batty in Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi thriller, Blade Runner. Hauer was a dedicated environmentalist. He fought for the release of Greenpeace's co-founder, Paul Watson, who was convicted in 1994 for sinking a Norwegian whaling vessel. Hauer has also established an AIDS awareness foundation called the Rutger Hauer Starfish Foundation. He married his second wife, Ineke, in 1985 (they had been together since 1968); and he has one child, actress Aysha Hauer, who was born in 1966 and who made him a grandfather in 1988. In April 2007, he published his autobiography All Those Moments: Stories of Heroes, Villains, Replicants, and Blade Runners (co-written with Patrick Quinlan) where he discussed many of his movie roles. Proceeds of the book go to Hauer's Starfish Foundation.
184 acting credits · 3 directing credits
Acting · 184
Smallville
2001
The Last Kingdom
2015
True Blood
2008
Omnibus
1967
Batman Begins
2005
De Wereld Draait Door
2005
V Graham Norton
2002
Lexx
1997
Blade Runner
1982
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
2017
Galavant
2015
Channel Zero
2016
Alias
2001
Sin City
2005
Fifty Shades of Erotica
2015
Iron Mask
2019
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014
The 10th Kingdom
2000
Merlin
1998
Metal Hurlant Chronicles
2012
Ladyhawke
1985
Salem's Lot
2004
The Hitcher
1986
Porters
2017
Goal II: Living the Dream
2007
Mata Hari
2017
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992
The Rite
2011
The Max Headroom Show
1985
The Law of the Desert
1991
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2002
Unity
2015
The Sisters Brothers
2018
Samson
2018
Nighthawks
1981
Blind Fury
1989
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
2015
Flesh + Blood
1985
Floris
1969
Split Second
1992
Escape from Sobibor
1987
24 Hours to Live
2017
Wedlock
1991
The Poseidon Adventure
2005
For Queen and Country
1979
Surviving the Game
1994
Inside the Third Reich
1982
Fatherland
1994
Francesco
2014
Turkish Delight
1973
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
1997
Warrior Angels
2002
Mysteries
1978
Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich
2016
Dracula 3D
2012
Minotaur
2006
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
1994
Hostile Waters
1997
Dead Tone
2007
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989
Hobo with a Shotgun
2011
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
2007
The Blood of Heroes
1989
Spetters
1980
Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal
2001
Soldier of Orange
1977
Blind Side
1993
Naked and Lustful
1976
Eureka
1983
Blast
1997
Crossworlds
1996
The Osterman Weekend
1983
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
2000
Flight of the Storks
2013
Admiral
2015
Dracula III: Legacy
2005
Moonage Daydream
2022
Beyond Justice
1992
The Wilby Conspiracy
1975
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1987
Scorcher
2002
Floris von Rosemund
1975
Moving McAllister
2007
Black Butterflies
2011
Duel In De Diepte
1979
The Letters
2014
Barbarossa
2009
Tonight at Noon
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Happiness Runs
2010
Wilder
2000
Bleeders
1997
A Breed Apart
1984
Corbin Nash
2018
The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point
2006
Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
1976
Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
2004
Past Midnight
1992
Tempesta
2004
Arctic Blue
1993
Mirror Wars: Reflection One
2005
Omega Doom
1996
Lying in Wait
2001
The Hunt for Eagle One
2006
Precious Find
1996
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997
Nostradamus
1994
Bone Daddy
1998
Tactical Assault
1998
Chanel Solitaire
1981
The 5th Execution
2011
The Heineken Kidnapping
2011
Zomer Draait Door, De
2007
Deathline
1997
Mentor
2006
The Sonata
2018
Mr. Stitch
1995
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
1988
The Reverend
2011
The Edge
1989
The Room
2001
2047: Sights of Death
2014
Behind the White Glasses
2015
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
2021
More Blood, More Heart: The Making of Hobo with a Shotgun
2011
Gangsterdam
2017
Bride Flight
2008
Break
2020
Real Playing Game
2013
The Mill and the Cross
2011
The Prince of Motor City
2008
Wax - We Are The X
2016
New World Disorder
1999
Life's a Beach
2010
Blond, Blue Eyes
2006
Simon Magus
1999
The Broken Key
2017
Katie Tippel
1975
Magic Flute Diaries
2008
The Beans of Egypt, Maine
1994
Flying Virus
2001
The Revenge of the Dead Indians
1993
Dandelions
1974
Cold Blood
1975
Blood of the Innocent
1994
Pastorale 1943
1978
Partners in Crime
2000
Starting Over
2007
Spoon
2011
On a Moonlit Night
1989
The Worlds of Philip K. Dick
2016
Woman Between Wolf and Dog
1979
All for One
2011
Agent Ranjid Saves the World
2012
Mariette in Ecstasy
1996
The Ruby Ring
1997
Drawing Home
2017
The Cardboard Village
2011
The Best of Max Headroom
1987
The Bankers Of God: The Calvi Affair
2002
Eating Pattern
1997
Voyage
1993
The Future
2013
Cancer Rising
1975
3
2009
Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling
2007
Francesco
2014
The Hitcher: How Do These Movies Get Made?
2003
The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
2001
Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood
1996
Heilige Jeanne
1978
Portable Life
2011
Isip the Warrior
—
Never Enough
2004
Fatal Error
1979
Clones
2015
Dazzle
2009
Genderness
2016
Requiem 2019
2011
Rond Floris
1969
The Rhapsody
2008
Es begann bei Tiffany
1979
Michelangelo: The Heart and the Stone
2012
Cyrano de Bergerac
1975
Starfish Tango
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