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 (23 January 1944 - 19 July 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

Isip the Warrior

as Catholic Priest

2024
2021
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood

as Himself (archive footage)

2020
Break

as Ray

2019
Iron Mask

as English Ambassador

2018
The Sonata

as Richard Marlowe

2018
The Sisters Brothers

as The Commodore

2018
Corbin Nash

as Stranger

2018
Samson

as Manoah

2017
Drawing Home

as Carl Rungius

2017
The Broken Key

as Professor Moonlight

2017
2017
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

as President of the World State Federation

2017
Gangsterdam

as Dolph

2017
Uncle Howard

as Self (archive footage)

2017
Porters

as Tillman

2017
Mata Hari

as Стольбаккен

2016
Wax - We Are The X

as Aron Mulder

2016
2016
Channel Zero

as Joseph Peach

2015
Unity

as Narrator (voice)

2015
Clones

as Dr. Richards

2015
Admiral

as Maarten Tromp

2015
2015
Galavant

as Kingsley

2014
Francesco

as Padre di Francesco

2014
2047: Sights of Death

as Colonel Asimov

2014
The Letters

as Benjamin Praagh

2013
The Future

as Maciste

2013
Real Playing Game

as Steve Batier

2013
2012
Dracula 3D

as Abraham van Helsing

2012
2011
The Heineken Kidnapping

as Alfred Heineken

2011
2011
Portable Life

as Antonio

2011
The Reverend

as The Withstander

2011
2011
The Mill and the Cross

as Peter Bruegel

2011
All for One

as Niemeyer

2011
Black Butterflies

as Abraham Jonker

2011
The Rite

as Istvan Kovak

2011
Spoon

as Victor Spoon

2010
Happiness Runs

as Insley

2010
Life's a Beach

as Jean-Luc

2009
Barbarossa

as Federico Barbarossa

2009
3

as Father (voice)

2009
2008
Bride Flight

as Old Frank

2008
The Prince of Motor City

as William Hamilton

2008
Magic Flute Diaries

as Dr. Richard Nagel

2008
True Blood

as Niall Brigant

2007
Starting Over

as Peter Rossen

2007
Moving McAllister

as Maxwell McAllister

2007
Dead Tone

as Det. John Criton

2007
Goal II: Living the Dream

as Rudi van der Merwe

2006
2006
2006
Mentor

as Sanford Pollard

2006
Minotaur

as Cyrnan

2006
The Hunt for Eagle One

as Gen. Frank Lewis

2005
The Poseidon Adventure

as Bishop August Schmidt

2005
Mirror Wars: Reflection One

as Mysterious Man

2005
2005
Batman Begins

as Earle

2005
Sin City

as Cardinal Patrick Henry Roark

2004
Never Enough

as Sebastian

2004
Tempesta

as Van Beuningen

2004
Salem's Lot

as Kurt Barlow

2002
Warrior Angels

as Grekkor

2002
Scorcher

as US President Nelson

2002
2001
Flying Virus

as Ezekial

2001
Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal

as Copilot MacIntosh

2001
Lying in Wait

as Keith Miller

2001
Smallville

as Morgan Edge

2001
Alias

as Anthony Geiger

2000
Wilder

as Dr. Sam Dennis Charney

2000
Partners in Crime

as Gene Reardon

2000
The 10th Kingdom

as The Huntsman

2000
The 10th Kingdom

as Huntsman

1999
New World Disorder

as David Marx

1999
Simon Magus

as Count Albrecht, the Squire

1998
Bone Daddy

as Palmer

1998
Tactical Assault

as Capitaine John 'Doc' Holiday

1998
Merlin

as King Vortingern

1997
The Ruby Ring

as Patrick Collins

1997
Hostile Waters

as Cap. Britanov

1997
Deathline

as John Wade

1997
1997
Hemoglobina

as Dr. Marlowe

1997
Blast

as Leo

1997
Lexx

as Bog

1996
Omega Doom

as Omega Doom

1996
1996
Precious Find

as Armond Crille

1996
Crossworlds

as A.T.

1995
Mr. Stitch

as Doctor Rue Wakeman

1994
Fatherland

as SS-Sturmbannführer Xavier March

1994
1994
Nostradamus

as The Mystic Monk

1994
Surviving the Game

as Thomas Burns

1994
1993
Voyage

as Morgan Norvell

1993
Blind Side

as Jake Shell

1993
Arctic Blue

as Ben Corbett

1992
Beyond Justice

as Tom Burton

1992
Past Midnight

as Ben Jordan

1992
Split Second

as Stone

1991
Wedlock

as Frank Warren

1991
Desert Law

as Tom Burton

1989
1989
1989
On a Moonlit Night

as John Knott

1989
The Edge

as Sheriff Emil Abel

1989
Blind Fury

as Nick Parker

1988
1987
Escape from Sobibor

as Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky

1987
Wanted: Dead or Alive

as Nick Randall

1986
The Hitcher

as John Ryder

1985
Flesh + Blood

as Martin

1985
Ladyhawke

as Captain Etienne Navarre

1984
A Breed Apart

as Jim Malden

1983
The Osterman Weekend

as John Tanner

1983
Eureka

as Claude Maillot Van Horn

1982
Blade Runner

as Batty

1982
Inside the Third Reich

as Albert Speer

1981
Nighthawks

as Wulfgar

1981
Chanel Solitaire

as Etienne de Balsan

1980
Spetters

as Gerrit Witkamp

1979
Fatal Error

as Rinus de Gier

1979
Duel In De Diepte

as John van der Velde

1979
For Queen and Country

as Erik Lanshof

1978
Mysteries

as Johan Nagel

1978
Pastorale 1943

as August Schultz

1978
Heilige Jeanne

as Dunois

1977
Soldier of Orange

as Erik Lanshof

1976
Max Havelaar

as Duclari

1975
Cyrano de Bergerac

as de Valvert

1975
Cancer Rising

as Pierre

1975
Cold Blood

as Cris

1975
Katie Tippel

as Hugo

1975
The Wilby Conspiracy

as Blane Van Niekirk

1975
1974
Dandelions

as Rick

1973
Turkish Delight

as Eric Vonk

1969
Rond Floris

as Self

1969
Floris

as Floris

Director

Starfish Tango

as Director

2011
Requiem 2019

as Director

2001
The Room

as Director

Producer

2009
Dazzle

as Executive Producer

1993
Arctic Blue

as Co-Executive Producer

Writer

1989
On a Moonlit Night

as Dialogue