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.
Born: 23 January 1944 • Died: 19 July 2019
Played In
Moonage Daydream
Self (archive voice)
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Break
Ray
Iron Mask
English Ambassador
The Sonata
Richard Marlowe
The Sisters Brothers
The Commodore
Corbin Nash
Stranger
Samson
Manoah
Drawing Home
Carl Rungius
The Broken Key
Professor Moonlight
24 Hours to Live
Frank
Porters
Tillman
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
President of the World State Federation
Gangsterdam
Dolph
Mata Hari
Стольбаккен
Genderness
Channel Zero
Joseph Peach
Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich
Oskar Halminski
Wax - We Are The X
Aron Mulder
The Worlds of Philip K. Dick
Self - Actor
The Last Kingdom
Ravn
Behind the White Glasses
Self
Unity
Narrator (voice)
Clones
Dr. Richards
Fifty Shades of Erotica
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Admiral
Maarten Tromp
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
King Zakour
Galavant
Kingsley
Francesco
Padre di Francesco
Francesco
Padre di Francesco
2047: Sights of Death
Colonel Asimov
The Real History of Science Fiction
Self
The Letters
Benjamin Praagh
The Future
Maciste
Real Playing Game
Steve Batier
Flight of the Storks
Sonderman
Dracula 3D
Abraham van Helsing
Michelangelo: The Heart and the Stone
Michelangelo
Metal Hurlant Chronicles
Kerm
Agent Ranjid Saves the World
Freek van Dyk
The Heineken Kidnapping
Alfred Heineken
The Cardboard Village
Sacristan
Portable Life
Antonio
The Reverend
The Withstander
More Blood, More Heart: The Making of Hobo with a Shotgun
Himself
Hobo with a Shotgun
Hobo
The 5th Execution
Khant
The Mill and the Cross
Peter Bruegel
All for One
Niemeyer
Black Butterflies
Abraham Jonker
The Rite
Istvan Kovak
Spoon
Victor Spoon
Requiem 2019
Happiness Runs
Insley
Life's a Beach
Jean-Luc
Barbarossa
Federico Barbarossa
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Father (voice)
Dazzle
The Rhapsody
Bride Flight
Old Frank
True Blood
Niall Brigant
The Prince of Motor City
William Hamilton
Magic Flute Diaries
Dr. Richard Nagel
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
Self
Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling
Self
Starting Over
Peter Rossen
Moving McAllister
Maxwell McAllister
Zomer Draait Door, De
Dead Tone
Det. John Criton
Goal II: Living the Dream
Rudi van der Merwe
Blond, Blue Eyes
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The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point
Gen. Frank Lewis
Mentor
Sanford Pollard
Minotaur
Cyrnan
The Hunt for Eagle One
Gen. Frank Lewis
The Poseidon Adventure
Bishop August Schmidt
De Wereld Draait Door
Self
Mirror Wars: Reflection One
Mysterious Man
Dracula III: Legacy
Dracula
Batman Begins
Earle
Sin City
Cardinal Roark
Floris
Floris (archive footage from Floris, 1969)
Never Enough
Sebastian
Salem's Lot
Kurt Barlow
Tempesta
Van Beuningen
Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
Self
The Hitcher: How Do These Movies Get Made?
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Keeler
Warrior Angels
Grekkor
Scorcher
US President Nelson
V Graham Norton
Self
The Bankers Of God: The Calvi Affair
Paul Marcinkus
Flying Virus
Ezekial
The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
Dutch Schultz(voice)
Smallville
Morgan Edge
Alias
Anthony Geiger
Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal
Copilot MacIntosh
The Room
Lying in Wait
Keith Miller
Wilder
Dr. Sam Dennis Charney
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
Self
The 10th Kingdom
Huntsman
Partners in Crime
Gene Reardon
New World Disorder
David Marx
Simon Magus
Count Albrecht, the Squire
Bone Daddy
Palmer
Merlin
King Vortingern
Tactical Assault
Capitaine John 'Doc' Holiday
The Ruby Ring
Patrick Collins
Hostile Waters
Cap. Britanov
Deathline
John Wade
Eating Pattern
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Bleeders
Dr. Marlowe
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
John Thornton
Lexx
Bog
Blast
Leo
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Curtiz
Omega Doom
Omega Doom
Mariette in Ecstasy
Chaplan
Precious Find
Armond Crille
Crossworlds
A.T.
Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood
Himself
Mr. Stitch
Doctor Rue Wakeman
Fatherland
SS-Sturmbannführer Xavier March
The Beans of Egypt, Maine
Rueben Bean
Nostradamus
The Mystic Monk
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
Fred Noonan
Surviving the Game
Burns
Blood of the Innocent
Dr. Lem
Voyage
Morgan Norvell
Blind Side
Jake Shell
Arctic Blue
Ben Corbett
The Revenge of the Dead Indians
Himself
Beyond Justice
Tom Burton
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Lothos
Past Midnight
Ben Jordan
Split Second
Stone
Wedlock
Frank Warren
The Law of the Desert
Tom Burton
Bloodhounds of Broadway
The Brain
The Blood of Heroes
Sallow
On a Moonlit Night
John Knott
The Edge
Sheriff Emil Abel (Indian Poker)
Blind Fury
Nick Parker
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
Andreas Kartak
Escape from Sobibor
Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky
The Best of Max Headroom
Self
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Nick Randall
The Hitcher
John Ryder
Flesh + Blood
Martin
The Max Headroom Show
Self
Ladyhawke
Captain Etienne Navarre
A Breed Apart
Jim Malden
The Osterman Weekend
John Tanner
Eureka
Claude Maillot Van Horn
Blade Runner
Batty
Inside the Third Reich
Albert Speer
Chanel Solitaire
Etienne de Balsan
Nighthawks
Wulfgar
Spetters
Gerrit Witkamp
Duel In De Diepte
John van der Velde
Fatal Error
Rinus de Gier
Woman Between Wolf and Dog
Adriaan
Es begann bei Tiffany
Ryder
For Queen and Country
Erik Lanshof
Mysteries
Simonsen aka Johan Frederik Nagel
Pastorale 1943
August Schultz
Heilige Jeanne
Dunois
Soldier of Orange
Erik Lanshof
Naked and Lustful
Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
Lieutenant Duclari
Cyrano de Bergerac
de Valvert
Cancer Rising
Pierre
Floris von Rosemund
Floris
Cold Blood
Chris
Katie Tippel
Hugo
The Wilby Conspiracy
Blane Van Niekirk
Dandelions
Rick
Turkish Delight
Erik Vonk
Rond Floris
Self
Floris
Floris van Rosemondt
Omnibus
Narrator (voice)
Isip the Warrior
Catholic Priest
Tonight at Noon
Diego
Starfish Tango
Self