Rutger Hauer
Acting
Born: January 23, 1944 · Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands
Died: July 19, 2019 (aged 75)
Highest Rated
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
Batman Begins
2005
Blade Runner
1982
Sin City
2005
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
2017
Smallville
2001
The Rite
2011
The Sisters Brothers
2018
True Blood
2008
The Last Kingdom
2015
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2002
Ladyhawke
1985
The Hitcher
1986
Photos (16)
Movies (137)
Batman Begins
Earle
Sin City
Cardinal Roark
Blind Fury
Nick Parker
Blade Runner
Batty
The Sisters Brothers
The Commodore
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
President of the World State Federation
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Lothos
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
King Zakour
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Nick Randall
Iron Mask
English Ambassador
The Mill and the Cross
Peter Bruegel
24 Hours to Live
Frank
Escape from Sobibor
Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky
The Rite
Istvan Kovak
The Hitcher
John Ryder
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Curtiz
Split Second
Stone
Nighthawks
Wulfgar
Fatherland
SS-Sturmbannführer Xavier March
Past Midnight
Ben Jordan
Blast
Leo
Flesh + Blood
Martin
Ladyhawke
Captain Etienne Navarre
Goal II: Living the Dream
Rudi van der Merwe
The Poseidon Adventure
Bishop August Schmidt
Admiral
Maarten Tromp
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Keeler
Katie Tippel
Hugo
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
Andreas Kartak
Surviving the Game
Burns
Soldier of Orange
Erik Lanshof
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
John Thornton
Dracula 3D
Abraham van Helsing
Samson
Manoah
Eureka
Claude Maillot Van Horn
Deathline
John Wade
Dracula III: Legacy
Dracula
Wedlock
Frank Warren
Turkish Delight
Erik Vonk
Hobo with a Shotgun
Hobo
The Osterman Weekend
John Tanner
The Blood of Heroes
Sallow
Life's a Beach
Jean-Luc
Blind Side
Jake Shell
2047: Sights of Death
Colonel Asimov
The Wilby Conspiracy
Blane Van Niekirk
Fifty Shades of Erotica
(archive footage)
Scorcher
US President Nelson
The Beans of Egypt, Maine
Rueben Bean
Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich
Oskar Halminski
The Cardboard Village
Sacristan
Spetters
Gerrit Witkamp
Flying Virus
Ezekial
Dead Tone
Det. John Criton
Happiness Runs
Insley
A Breed Apart
Jim Malden
Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal
Copilot MacIntosh
Hostile Waters
Cap. Britanov
The Hunt for Eagle One
Gen. Frank Lewis
Precious Find
Armond Crille
Minotaur
Cyrnan
The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
Paul Marcinkus
Crossworlds
A.T.
Requiem 2019
2011
The Sonata
Richard Marlowe
Bone Daddy
Palmer
Black Butterflies
Abraham Jonker
Moving McAllister
Maxwell McAllister
Naked and Lustful
1976
Bloodhounds of Broadway
The Brain
Unity
Narrator (voice)
Woman Between Wolf and Dog
Adriaan
Omega Doom
Omega Doom
Tempesta
Van Beuningen
The Letters
Benjamin Praagh
Chanel Solitaire
Etienne de Balsan
All for One
Niemeyer
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
Fred Noonan
On a Moonlit Night
John Knott
Barbarossa
Federico Barbarossa
The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point
Gen. Frank Lewis
Es begann bei Tiffany
Ryder
Gangsterdam
Dolph
Voyage
Morgan Norvell
Cold Blood
Chris
The Broken Key
Professor Moonlight
Lying in Wait
Keith Miller
The 5th Execution
Khant
Corbin Nash
Stranger
Wilder
Dr. Sam Dennis Charney
Bride Flight
Old Frank
Nostradamus
The Mystic Monk
Drawing Home
Carl Rungius
Arctic Blue
Ben Corbett
Agent Ranjid Saves the World
Freek van Dyk
The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
Dutch Schultz(voice)
New World Disorder
David Marx
Bleeders
Dr. Marlowe
The Room
2001
Mysteries
Simonsen aka Johan Frederik Nagel
The Edge
Sheriff Emil Abel (Indian Poker)
Warrior Angels
Grekkor
The Heineken Kidnapping
Alfred Heineken
Spoon
Victor Spoon
The Future
Maciste
Real Playing Game
Steve Batier
WAX: We Are the X
Aron Mulder
The Ruby Ring
Patrick Collins
Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
Lieutenant Duclari
Dazzle
2009
Break
Ray
Fatal Error
Rinus de Gier
Clones
Dr. Richards
The Rhapsody
2008
Blood of the Innocent
Dr. Lem
Mirror Wars: Reflection One
Mysterious Man
Eating Pattern
Bog
Floris
Floris (archive footage from Floris, 1969)
Beyond Justice
Tom Burton
Cyrano de Bergerac
de Valvert
Michelangelo: The Heart and the Stone
Michelangelo
The Reverend
The Withstander
Cancer Rising
Pierre
Tactical Assault
Capitaine John 'Doc' Holiday
Dandelions
Rick
The Hitcher: How Do These Movies Get Made?
2003
Partners in Crime
Gene Reardon
Francesco
Padre di Francesco
3
Father (voice)
Starting Over
Peter Rossen
Heilige Jeanne
Dunois
Mr. Stitch
Doctor Rue Wakeman
Pastorale 1943
August Schultz
Magic Flute Diaries
Dr. Richard Nagel
Simon Magus
Count Albrecht, the Squire
Mentor
Sanford Pollard
Portable Life
Antonio
TV Shows (24)
Smallville
Morgan Edge · 2 eps
True Blood
Niall Brigant · 6 eps
The Last Kingdom
Ravn · 1 eps
American Playhouse
The Brain · 1 eps
American Playhouse
Reuben Bean · 1 eps
Omnibus
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
Lexx
Bog · 1 eps
Channel Zero
Joseph Peach · 6 eps
Alias
Anthony Geiger · 1 eps
Galavant
Kingsley · 3 eps
Merlin
King Vortingern · 2 eps
Salem's Lot
Kurt Barlow · 2 eps
The 10th Kingdom
Huntsman · 5 eps
Metal Hurlant Chronicles
Kerm · 7 eps
Mata Hari
Стольбаккен · 12 eps
Porters
Tillman · 7 eps
Inside the Third Reich
Albert Speer · 2 eps
Floris
Floris van Rosemondt · 13 eps
Flight of the Storks
Sonderman · 2 eps
The Law of the Desert
Tom Burton · 3 eps
Duel In De Diepte
John van der Velde · 4 eps
Francesco
Padre di Francesco · 2 eps
Floris von Rosemund
Floris · 19 eps
For Queen and Country
Erik Lanshof · 4 eps
Self / Appearances (16)
De Wereld Draait Door
Self · 1 eps
V Graham Norton
Self · 1 eps
The Real History of Science Fiction
Self · 2 eps
The Max Headroom Show
Self · 1 eps
Behind the White Glasses
Self
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
Self
The Best of Max Headroom
Self
Roel Oostra – Theaterman in hart en nieren
Self (archive footage)
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
Self
The Revenge of the Dead Indians
Himself
Rond Floris
Self
More Blood, More Heart: The Making of Hobo with a Shotgun
Himself
The Worlds of Philip K. Dick
Self - Actor
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
Self
Blond, Blue Eyes
Self