Rutger Hauer
143 movies · 24 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 23, 1944
- Died
- Jul 19, 2019 (age 75)
- Place of birth
- Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Also known as
- Rutger Oelsen Hauer
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.
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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.
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Known for
Rutger Hauer: movies and TV shows
Acting (167)
- Upcoming Isip the Warrior
as Catholic Priest
- Upcoming Tonight at Noon
as Diego
- 2020 Break
as Ray
- 2019 Iron Mask
as English Ambassador
- 2018 The Sonata
as Richard Marlowe
- 2018 The Sisters Brothers
as The Commodore
- 2018 Corbin Nash
as Stranger
- 2018 Samson
as Manoah
- 2017 Drawing Home
as Carl Rungius
- 2017 The Broken Key
as Professor Moonlight
- 2017 24 Hours to Live
as Frank
- 2017
- 2017 Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
as President of the World State Federation
- 2017 Gangsterdam
as Dolph
- 2017
- 2016
- 2016
- 2016 Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich
as Oskar Halminski
- 2016 WAX: We Are the X
as Aron Mulder
- 2015
- 2015 Unity
as Narrator (voice)
- 2015 Clones
as Dr. Richards
- 2015 Fifty Shades of Erotica
as (archive footage)
- 2015 Admiral
as Maarten Tromp
- 2015 The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
as King Zakour
- 2015
- 2014 Francesco
as Padre di Francesco
- 2014
- 2014 2047: Sights of Death
as Colonel Asimov
- 2014 The Letters
as Benjamin Praagh
- 2013 The Future
as Maciste
- 2013 Real Playing Game
as Steve Batier
- 2013
- 2012 Dracula 3D
as Abraham van Helsing
- 2012 Michelangelo: The Heart and the Stone
as Michelangelo
- 2012
- 2012 Agent Ranjid Saves the World
as Freek van Dyk
- 2011 The Heineken Kidnapping
as Alfred Heineken
- 2011 The Cardboard Village
as Sacristan
- 2011 Portable Life
as Antonio
- 2011 The Reverend
as The Withstander
- 2011 Hobo with a Shotgun
as Hobo
- 2011 The 5th Execution
as Khant
- 2011 The Mill and the Cross
as Peter Bruegel
- 2011 All for One
as Niemeyer
- 2011 Black Butterflies
as Abraham Jonker
- 2011 The Rite
as Istvan Kovak
- 2011 Spoon
as Victor Spoon
- 2011
- 2010 Happiness Runs
as Insley
- 2010 Life's a Beach
as Jean-Luc
- 2009 Barbarossa
as Federico Barbarossa
- 2009 3
as Father (voice)
- 2009
- 2008
- 2008 Bride Flight
as Old Frank
- 2008
- 2008 The Prince of Motor City
as William Hamilton
- 2008 Magic Flute Diaries
as Dr. Richard Nagel
- 2007 Starting Over
as Peter Rossen
- 2007 Moving McAllister
as Maxwell McAllister
- 2007
- 2007 Dead Tone
as Det. John Criton
- 2007 Goal II: Living the Dream
as Rudi van der Merwe
- 2006 The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point
as Gen. Frank Lewis
- 2006 Mentor
as Sanford Pollard
- 2006 Minotaur
as Cyrnan
- 2006 The Hunt for Eagle One
as Gen. Frank Lewis
- 2005 The Poseidon Adventure
as Bishop August Schmidt
- 2005 Mirror Wars: Reflection One
as Mysterious Man
- 2005 Dracula III: Legacy
as Dracula
- 2005 Batman Begins
as Earle
- 2005 Sin City
as Cardinal Roark
- 2004 Floris
as Floris (archive footage from Floris, 1969)
- 2004 Never Enough
as Sebastian
- 2004
- 2004 Tempesta
as Van Beuningen
- 2003
- 2002 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
as Keeler
- 2002 Warrior Angels
as Grekkor
- 2002 Scorcher
as US President Nelson
- 2002 The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
as Paul Marcinkus
- 2001 Flying Virus
as Ezekial
- 2001 The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
as Dutch Schultz(voice)
- 2001
- 2001
- 2001 Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal
as Copilot MacIntosh
- 2001
- 2001 Lying in Wait
as Keith Miller
- 2000 Wilder
as Dr. Sam Dennis Charney
- 2000
- 2000 Partners in Crime
as Gene Reardon
- 1999 New World Disorder
as David Marx
- 1999 Simon Magus
as Count Albrecht, the Squire
- 1998 Bone Daddy
as Palmer
- 1998
- 1998 Tactical Assault
as Capitaine John 'Doc' Holiday
- 1997 The Ruby Ring
as Patrick Collins
- 1997 Hostile Waters
as Cap. Britanov
- 1997 Deathline
as John Wade
- 1997 Eating Pattern
as Bog
- 1997 Bleeders
as Dr. Marlowe
- 1997 The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
as John Thornton
- 1997
- 1997 Blast
as Leo
- 1997 Knockin' on Heaven's Door
as Curtiz
- 1996 Omega Doom
as Omega Doom
- 1996 Mariette in Ecstasy
as Chaplan
- 1996 Precious Find
as Armond Crille
- 1996 Crossworlds
as A.T.
- 1995 Mr. Stitch
as Doctor Rue Wakeman
- 1994 Fatherland
as SS-Sturmbannführer Xavier March
- 1994 The Beans of Egypt, Maine
as Rueben Bean
- 1994 Nostradamus
as The Mystic Monk
- 1994 Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
as Fred Noonan
- 1994 Surviving the Game
as Burns
- 1994 Blood of the Innocent
as Dr. Lem
- 1993 Voyage
as Morgan Norvell
- 1993 Blind Side
as Jake Shell
- 1993 Arctic Blue
as Ben Corbett
- 1992 Beyond Justice
as Tom Burton
- 1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer
as Lothos
- 1992 Past Midnight
as Ben Jordan
- 1992 Split Second
as Stone
- 1991 Wedlock
as Frank Warren
- 1991
- 1989 Bloodhounds of Broadway
as The Brain
- 1989 The Blood of Heroes
as Sallow
- 1989 On a Moonlit Night
as John Knott
- 1989 The Edge
as Sheriff Emil Abel (Indian Poker)
- 1989 Blind Fury
as Nick Parker
- 1988 The Legend of the Holy Drinker
as Andreas Kartak
- 1987 Escape from Sobibor
as Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky
- 1987 Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Nick Randall
- 1986 The Hitcher
as John Ryder
- 1985 Flesh + Blood
as Martin
- 1985 Ladyhawke
as Captain Etienne Navarre
- 1984 A Breed Apart
as Jim Malden
- 1983 The Osterman Weekend
as John Tanner
- 1983 Eureka
as Claude Maillot Van Horn
- 1982 Blade Runner
as Batty
- 1982
- 1982
- 1981 Chanel Solitaire
as Etienne de Balsan
- 1981 Nighthawks
as Wulfgar
- 1980 Spetters
as Gerrit Witkamp
- 1979
- 1979 Fatal Error
as Rinus de Gier
- 1979 Woman Between Wolf and Dog
as Adriaan
- 1979 Es begann bei Tiffany
as Ryder
- 1979
- 1978 Mysteries
as Simonsen aka Johan Frederik Nagel
- 1978 Pastorale 1943
as August Schultz
- 1978 Heilige Jeanne
as Dunois
- 1977 Soldier of Orange
as Erik Lanshof
- 1976
- 1976 Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
as Lieutenant Duclari
- 1975 Cyrano de Bergerac
as de Valvert
- 1975 Cancer Rising
as Pierre
- 1975
- 1975 Cold Blood
as Chris
- 1975 Katie Tippel
as Hugo
- 1975 The Wilby Conspiracy
as Blane Van Niekirk
- 1974 Dandelions
as Rick
- 1973 Turkish Delight
as Erik Vonk
- 1969
- 1967
Behind the camera (7)
- Upcoming Starfish Tango
Director
- 2011 Requiem 2019
Director
- 2009 Dazzle
Executive Producer
- 2001 The Room
Director
- 1995 Mr. Stitch
Executive Producer
- 1993 Arctic Blue
Co-Executive Producer
- 1989 On a Moonlit Night
Dialogue
Talk shows and appearances (18)
- 2026
- 2021
- 2016
- 2015
- 2014 The Real History of Science Fiction
2 episodes
- 2011
- 2007
- 2007
- 2006
- 2005 De Wereld Draait Door
1 episode
- 2004
- 2002 V Graham Norton
1 episode
- 2000
- 1996
- 1993
- 1987
- 1985 The Max Headroom Show
1 episode
- 1969