Rutger Hauer
Acting
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
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movieMoonage Daydream
2022
Self (archive voice)
movieAlbert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
2021
Self (archive footage)
movieIron Mask
2019
English Ambassador
movieThe Sonata
2018
Richard Marlowe
movieThe Sisters Brothers
2018
The Commodore
movieCorbin Nash
2018
Stranger
movieSamson
2018
Manoah
movieDrawing Home
2017
Carl Rungius
movieThe Broken Key
2017
Professor Moonlight
tvPorters
2017
Tillman
movieValerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
2017
President of the World State Federation
movieGangsterdam
2017
Dolph
tvMata Hari
2017
Стольбаккен
tvChannel Zero
2016
Joseph Peach
movieBeyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich
2016
Oskar Halminski
movieWax - We Are The X
2016
Aron Mulder
movieThe Worlds of Philip K. Dick
2016
Self - Actor
movieUnity
2015
Narrator (voice)
movieClones
2015
Dr. Richards
movieFifty Shades of Erotica
2015
(archive footage)
movieAdmiral
2015
Maarten Tromp
tvGalavant
2015
Kingsley
movieFrancesco
2014
Padre di Francesco
tvFrancesco
2014
Padre di Francesco
movie2047: Sights of Death
2014
Colonel Asimov
movieThe Letters
2014
Benjamin Praagh
movieThe Future
2013
Maciste
movieReal Playing Game
2013
Steve Batier
tvFlight of the Storks
2013
Sonderman
movieDracula 3D
2012
Abraham van Helsing
movieMichelangelo: The Heart and the Stone
2012
Michelangelo
movieAgent Ranjid Saves the World
2012
Freek van Dyk
movieThe Heineken Kidnapping
2011
Alfred Heineken
movieThe Cardboard Village
2011
Sacristan
moviePortable Life
2011
Antonio
movieThe Reverend
2011
The Withstander
movieThe Mill and the Cross
2011
Peter Bruegel
movieAll for One
2011
Niemeyer
movieBlack Butterflies
2011
Abraham Jonker
movieThe Rite
2011
Istvan Kovak
movieSpoon
2011
Victor Spoon
movieHappiness Runs
2010
Insley
movieLife's a Beach
2010
Jean-Luc
movieBarbarossa
2009
Federico Barbarossa
movie3
2009
Father (voice)
movieBride Flight
2008
Old Frank
tvTrue Blood
2008
Niall Brigant
The Prince of Motor City
2008
William Hamilton
movieMagic Flute Diaries
2008
Dr. Richard Nagel
movieStarting Over
2007
Peter Rossen
movieMoving McAllister
2007
Maxwell McAllister
movieDead Tone
2007
Det. John Criton
movieGoal II: Living the Dream
2007
Rudi van der Merwe
movieThe Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point
2006
Gen. Frank Lewis
movieMentor
2006
Sanford Pollard
movieMinotaur
2006
Cyrnan
movieThe Hunt for Eagle One
2006
Gen. Frank Lewis
movieThe Poseidon Adventure
2005
Bishop August Schmidt
movieMirror Wars: Reflection One
2005
Mysterious Man
movieDracula III: Legacy
2005
Dracula
movieSin City
2005
Cardinal Roark
movieFloris
2004
Floris (archive footage from Floris, 1969)
Never Enough
2004
Sebastian
tvSalem's Lot
2004
Kurt Barlow
movieTempesta
2004
Van Beuningen
movieWarrior Angels
2002
Grekkor
movieScorcher
2002
US President Nelson
movieThe Bankers Of God: The Calvi Affair
2002
Paul Marcinkus
movieFlying Virus
2001
Ezekial
movieThe Last Words of Dutch Schultz
2001
Dutch Schultz(voice)
tvSmallville
2001
Morgan Edge
tvAlias
2001
Anthony Geiger
movieTurbulence 3: Heavy Metal
2001
Copilot MacIntosh
movieLying in Wait
2001
Keith Miller
movieWilder
2000
Dr. Sam Dennis Charney
tvThe 10th Kingdom
2000
Huntsman
moviePartners in Crime
2000
Gene Reardon
movieNew World Disorder
1999
David Marx
movieSimon Magus
1999
Count Albrecht, the Squire
movieBone Daddy
1998
Palmer
tvMerlin
1998
King Vortingern
movieTactical Assault
1998
Capitaine John 'Doc' Holiday
movieThe Ruby Ring
1997
Patrick Collins
movieHostile Waters
1997
Cap. Britanov
movieDeathline
1997
John Wade
movieBleeders
1997
Dr. Marlowe
movieThe Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997
John Thornton
tvLexx
1997
Bog
movieOmega Doom
1996
Omega Doom
moviePrecious Find
1996
Armond Crille
movieMr. Stitch
1995
Doctor Rue Wakeman
movieFatherland
1994
SS-Sturmbannführer Xavier March
movieThe Beans of Egypt, Maine
1994
Rueben Bean
movieNostradamus
1994
The Mystic Monk
movieAmelia Earhart: The Final Flight
1994
Fred Noonan
movieVoyage
1993
Morgan Norvell
movieBlind Side
1993
Jake Shell
movieArctic Blue
1993
Ben Corbett
movieBeyond Justice
1992
Tom Burton
moviePast Midnight
1992
Ben Jordan
movieWedlock
1991
Frank Warren
tvThe Law of the Desert
1991
Tom Burton
movieBloodhounds of Broadway
1989
The Brain
movieOn a Moonlit Night
1989
John Knott
movieThe Edge
1989
Sheriff Emil Abel (Indian Poker)
movieBlind Fury
1989
Nick Parker
movieThe Legend of the Holy Drinker
1988
Andreas Kartak
movieEscape from Sobibor
1987
Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky
movieWanted: Dead or Alive
1987
Nick Randall
movieThe Hitcher
1986
John Ryder
movieFlesh + Blood
1985
Martin
movieLadyhawke
1985
Captain Etienne Navarre
movieA Breed Apart
1984
Jim Malden
movieThe Osterman Weekend
1983
John Tanner
movieEureka
1983
Claude Maillot Van Horn
tvInside the Third Reich
1982
Albert Speer
tvAmerican Playhouse
1982
The Brain / Reuben Bean
movieChanel Solitaire
1981
Etienne de Balsan
movieNighthawks
1981
Wulfgar
movieSpetters
1980
Gerrit Witkamp
tvDuel In De Diepte
1979
John van der Velde
movieFatal Error
1979
Rinus de Gier
tvFor Queen and Country
1979
Erik Lanshof
movieMysteries
1978
Simonsen aka Johan Frederik Nagel
moviePastorale 1943
1978
August Schultz
movieHeilige Jeanne
1978
Dunois
movieSoldier of Orange
1977
Erik Lanshof
movieCyrano de Bergerac
1975
de Valvert
movieCancer Rising
1975
Pierre
movieCold Blood
1975
Chris
movieThe Wilby Conspiracy
1975
Blane Van Niekirk
movieTurkish Delight
1973
Erik Vonk
tvFloris
1969
Floris van Rosemondt
tvOmnibus
1967
Narrator (voice)
Isip the Warrior
Catholic Priest
Directing3
Production3
movieDazzle
2009
Executive Producer
movieMr. Stitch
1995
Executive Producer
movieArctic Blue
1993
Co-Executive Producer
Writing1
movieOn a Moonlit Night
1989
Dialogue