Rutger Hauer
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1944-01-23
Deathday 2019-07-19 (75 years old)
Place of Birth Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands
Rutger Hauer
Biography
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.
Known For
Actor
as Catholic Priest
as Diego
as Self
as Himself
as Himself (archive footage)
as Ray
as English Ambassador
as Richard Marlowe
as The Commodore
as Stranger
as Manoah
as Carl Rungius
as Professor Moonlight
as Frank
as President of the World State Federation
as Dolph
as Self (archive footage)
as Tillman
as Стольбаккен
as Oskar Halminski
as Aron Mulder
as Self - Actor
as Joseph Peach
as Self
as Narrator (voice)
as Dr. Richards
as Maarten Tromp
as King Zakour
as Ravn
as Kingsley
as Padre di Francesco
as Colonel Asimov
as Benjamin Praagh
as Himself
as Self (archive footage)
as Maciste
as Steve Batier
as Sonderman
as Abraham van Helsing
as Freek van Dyk
as Kerm
as Alfred Heineken
as Sacristan
as Antonio
as The Withstander
as Hobo
as Khant
as Peter Bruegel
as Niemeyer
as Abraham Jonker
as Istvan Kovak
as Victor Spoon
as Insley
as Jean-Luc
as Federico Barbarossa
as Father (voice)
as Old Frank
as William Hamilton
as Dr. Richard Nagel
as Niall Brigant
as Peter Rossen
as Maxwell McAllister
as Det. John Criton
as Rudi van der Merwe
as Self
as Gen. Frank Lewis
as Sanford Pollard
as Cyrnan
as Gen. Frank Lewis
as Bishop August Schmidt
as Mysterious Man
as Dracula
as Earle
as Cardinal Patrick Henry Roark
as Self
as Sebastian
as Van Beuningen
as Kurt Barlow
as Keeler
as Grekkor
as US President Nelson
as Paul Marcinkus
as Self
as Ezekial
as Copilot MacIntosh
as Keith Miller
as Morgan Edge
as Anthony Geiger
as Dr. Sam Dennis Charney
as Self
as Gene Reardon
as The Huntsman
as Huntsman
as David Marx
as Count Albrecht, the Squire
as Palmer
as Capitaine John 'Doc' Holiday
as King Vortingern
as Patrick Collins
as Cap. Britanov
as John Wade
as Bog
as Dr. Marlowe
as John Thornton
as Leo
as Curtiz
as Bog
as Omega Doom
as Chaplan
as Armond Crille
as A.T.
as Himself
as Doctor Rue Wakeman
as SS-Sturmbannführer Xavier March
as Rueben Bean
as The Mystic Monk
as Fred Noonan
as Thomas Burns
as Dr. Lem
as Morgan Norvell
as Jake Shell
as Ben Corbett
as Himself
as Tom Burton
as Lothos
as Ben Jordan
as Stone
as Frank Warren
as Tom Burton
as The Brain
as Sallow
as John Knott
as Sheriff Emil Abel
as Nick Parker
as Andreas Kartak
as Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky
as Nick Randall
as John Ryder
as Martin
as Captain Etienne Navarre
as Jim Malden
as John Tanner
as Claude Maillot Van Horn
as Batty
as Albert Speer
as Wulfgar
as Etienne de Balsan
as Gerrit Witkamp
as Rinus de Gier
as Ryder
as John van der Velde
as Erik Lanshof
as Johan Nagel
as August Schultz
as Dunois
as Erik Lanshof
as Duclari
as de Valvert
as Pierre
as Cris
as Hugo
as Blane Van Niekirk
as Floris
as Rick
as Eric Vonk
as Self
as Floris
Director
Producer
as Executive Producer
as Co-Executive Producer
Writer
as Dialogue