Rutger Hauer
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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
Credits
Batman Begins (2005)
as Earle
Blade Runner (1982)
as Batty
Sin City (2005)
as Cardinal Roark
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
as President of the World State Federation
The Hitcher (1986)
as John Ryder
The Rite (2011)
as Istvan Kovak
Iron Mask (2019)
as English Ambassador
24 Hours to Live (2017)
as Frank
The Sisters Brothers (2018)
as The Commodore
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
as Lothos
Ladyhawke (1985)
as Captain Etienne Navarre
Blind Fury (1989)
as Nick Parker
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
as Keeler
Samson (2018)
as Manoah
Nighthawks (1981)
as Wulfgar
Split Second (1992)
as Stone
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power (2015)
as King Zakour
Flesh + Blood (1985)
as Martin
Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)
as Curtiz
Goal II: Living the Dream (2007)
as Rudi van der Merwe
Wanted: Dead or Alive (1987)
as Nick Randall
Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
as Hobo
Surviving the Game (1994)
as Burns
Fatherland (1994)
as SS-Sturmbannführer Xavier March
Escape from Sobibor (1987)
as Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (2007)
as Self
Admiral (2015)
as Maarten Tromp
Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich (2016)
as Oskar Halminski
The Blood of Heroes (1989)
as Sallow
The Poseidon Adventure (2005)
as Bishop August Schmidt
Turkish Delight (1973)
as Erik Vonk
Fifty Shades of Erotica (2015)
as (archive footage)
Dracula III: Legacy (2005)
as Dracula
Naked and Lustful (1976)
Actor
Life's a Beach (2010)
as Jean-Luc
Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989)
as The Brain
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon (1997)
as John Thornton
The Osterman Weekend (1983)
as John Tanner
The Wilby Conspiracy (1975)
as Blane Van Niekirk
Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal (2001)
as Copilot MacIntosh
Wedlock (1991)
as Frank Warren
The Best of Max Headroom (1987)
as Self
The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point (2006)
as Gen. Frank Lewis
Blast (1997)
as Leo
Soldier of Orange (1977)
as Erik Lanshof
A Breed Apart (1984)
as Jim Malden
Gangsterdam (2017)
as Dolph
Dead Tone (2007)
as Det. John Criton
Behind the White Glasses (2015)
as Self
Mysteries (1978)
as Simonsen aka Johan Frederik Nagel
Unity (2015)
as Narrator (voice)
Eureka (1983)
as Claude Maillot Van Horn
Hostile Waters (1997)
as Cap. Britanov
Minotaur (2006)
as Cyrnan
Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling (2007)
as Self
Precious Find (1996)
as Armond Crille
Dracula 3D (2012)
as Abraham van Helsing
Roel Oostra – Theaterman in hart en nieren (2026)
as Self (archive footage)
Bleeders (1997)
as Dr. Marlowe
The Letters (2014)
as Benjamin Praagh
Blind Side (1993)
as Jake Shell
Spetters (1980)
as Gerrit Witkamp
2047: Sights of Death (2014)
as Colonel Asimov
Dazzle (2009)
Actor
The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988)
as Andreas Kartak
The Broken Key (2017)
as Professor Moonlight
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight (1994)
as Fred Noonan
Rond Floris (1969)
as Self
Black Butterflies (2011)
as Abraham Jonker
Barbarossa (2009)
as Federico Barbarossa
The Sonata (2018)
as Richard Marlowe
The 5th Execution (2011)
as Khant
Deathline (1997)
as John Wade
Warrior Angels (2002)
as Grekkor
Blood of the Innocent (1994)
as Dr. Lem
The Prince of Motor City (2008)
as William Hamilton
Es begann bei Tiffany (1979)
as Ryder
The Hunt for Eagle One (2006)
as Gen. Frank Lewis
Omega Doom (1996)
as Omega Doom
On a Moonlit Night (1989)
as John Knott
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner' (2000)
as Self
Crossworlds (1996)
as A.T.
The Room (2001)
Actor
The Rhapsody (2008)
Actor
Agent Ranjid Saves the World (2012)
as Freek van Dyk
Woman Between Wolf and Dog (1979)
as Adriaan
The Beans of Egypt, Maine (1994)
as Rueben Bean
New World Disorder (1999)
as David Marx
Katie Tippel (1975)
as Hugo
Mirror Wars: Reflection One (2005)
as Mysterious Man
Arctic Blue (1993)
as Ben Corbett
The Mill and the Cross (2011)
as Peter Bruegel
Past Midnight (1992)
as Ben Jordan
Cold Blood (1975)
as Chris
Bone Daddy (1998)
as Palmer
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Happiness Runs (2010)
as Insley
Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend' (2004)
as Self
Moving McAllister (2007)
as Maxwell McAllister
The Cardboard Village (2011)
as Sacristan
The Heineken Kidnapping (2011)
as Alfred Heineken
The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair (2002)
as Paul Marcinkus
The Hitcher: How Do These Movies Get Made? (2003)
Actor
Partners in Crime (2000)
as Gene Reardon
Beyond Justice (1992)
as Tom Burton
Flying Virus (2001)
as Ezekial
More Blood, More Heart: The Making of Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
as Himself
Bride Flight (2008)
as Old Frank
Corbin Nash (2018)
as Stranger
WAX: We Are the X (2016)
as Aron Mulder
Chanel Solitaire (1981)
as Etienne de Balsan
Nostradamus (1994)
as The Mystic Monk
Scorcher (2002)
as US President Nelson
The Edge (1989)
as Sheriff Emil Abel (Indian Poker)
Simon Magus (1999)
as Count Albrecht, the Squire
Break (2020)
as Ray
Requiem 2019 (2011)
Actor
Spoon (2011)
as Victor Spoon
Mr. Stitch (1995)
as Doctor Rue Wakeman
Isip the Warrior (—)
as Catholic Priest
Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company (1976)
as Lieutenant Duclari
The Future (2013)
as Maciste
Tempesta (2004)
as Van Beuningen
Real Playing Game (2013)
as Steve Batier
Mariette in Ecstasy (1996)
as Chaplan
Wilder (2000)
as Dr. Sam Dennis Charney
Drawing Home (2017)
as Carl Rungius
Tactical Assault (1998)
as Capitaine John 'Doc' Holiday
The Worlds of Philip K. Dick (2016)
as Self - Actor
All for One (2011)
as Niemeyer
The Last Words of Dutch Schultz (2001)
as Dutch Schultz(voice)
Mentor (2006)
as Sanford Pollard
Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood (1996)
as Himself
The Revenge of the Dead Indians (1993)
as Himself
Tonight at Noon (—)
as Diego
The Reverend (2011)
as The Withstander
Magic Flute Diaries (2008)
as Dr. Richard Nagel
Clones (2015)
as Dr. Richards
Cancer Rising (1975)
as Pierre
Cyrano de Bergerac (1975)
as de Valvert
Fatal Error (1979)
as Rinus de Gier
Lying in Wait (2001)
as Keith Miller
Voyage (1993)
as Morgan Norvell
Dandelions (1974)
as Rick
The Ruby Ring (1997)
as Patrick Collins
3 (2009)
as Father (voice)
Michelangelo: The Heart and the Stone (2012)
as Michelangelo
Eating Pattern (1997)
as Bog
Starting Over (2007)
as Peter Rossen
Pastorale 1943 (1978)
as August Schultz
Starfish Tango (—)
as Self
Heilige Jeanne (1978)
as Dunois
Francesco (2014)
as Padre di Francesco
Portable Life (2011)
as Antonio
Genderness (2016)
Actor
Blond, Blue Eyes (2006)
as Self
Floris (2004)
as Floris (archive footage from Floris, 1969)
Never Enough (2004)
as Sebastian