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