Rutger Hauer
Photoplayd Industry Rating
Not enough rated films yet to compute a weighted score.
Roles are weighted by involvement: director 1.0, screenwriter 0.7, lead 0.8, supporting 0.4, crew 0.1.
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
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
as President of the World State Federation
Sin City (2005)
as Cardinal Roark
Iron Mask (2019)
as English Ambassador
Fifty Shades of Erotica (2015)
as (archive footage)
The Hitcher (1986)
as John Ryder
Ladyhawke (1985)
as Captain Etienne Navarre
The Rite (2011)
as Istvan Kovak
Split Second (1992)
as Stone
Blind Fury (1989)
as Nick Parker
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
as Lothos
Escape from Sobibor (1987)
as Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky
Flesh + Blood (1985)
as Martin
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power (2015)
as King Zakour
24 Hours to Live (2017)
as Frank
Nighthawks (1981)
as Wulfgar
Goal II: Living the Dream (2007)
as Rudi van der Merwe
The Poseidon Adventure (2005)
as Bishop August Schmidt
The Sisters Brothers (2018)
as The Commodore
Samson (2018)
as Manoah
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
as Keeler
Turkish Delight (1973)
as Erik Vonk
Mysteries (1978)
as Simonsen aka Johan Frederik Nagel
The Blood of Heroes (1989)
as Sallow
Arctic Blue (1993)
as Ben Corbett
Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)
as Curtiz
Moonage Daydream (2022)
as Self (archive voice)
Blast (1997)
as Leo
Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
as Hobo
Naked and Lustful (1976)
Actor
Wedlock (1991)
as Frank Warren
Dead Tone (2007)
as Det. John Criton
Minotaur (2006)
as Cyrnan
Surviving the Game (1994)
as Burns
Blind Side (1993)
as Jake Shell
The Letters (2014)
as Benjamin Praagh
Unity (2015)
as Narrator (voice)
Fatherland (1994)
as SS-Sturmbannführer Xavier March
Barbarossa (2009)
as Federico Barbarossa
Dracula 3D (2012)
as Abraham van Helsing
The Osterman Weekend (1983)
as John Tanner
Warrior Angels (2002)
as Grekkor
Bone Daddy (1998)
as Palmer
Corbin Nash (2018)
as Stranger
Flying Virus (2001)
as Ezekial
Clones (2015)
as Dr. Richards
The Edge (1989)
as Sheriff Emil Abel (Indian Poker)
Mr. Stitch (1995)
as Doctor Rue Wakeman
Eureka (1983)
as Claude Maillot Van Horn
Soldier of Orange (1977)
as Erik Lanshof
Hostile Waters (1997)
as Cap. Britanov
Dracula III: Legacy (2005)
as Dracula
A Breed Apart (1984)
as Jim Malden
The Wilby Conspiracy (1975)
as Blane Van Niekirk
Omega Doom (1996)
as Omega Doom
The Sonata (2018)
as Richard Marlowe
Bride Flight (2008)
as Old Frank
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (2007)
as Self
Admiral (2015)
as Maarten Tromp
Crossworlds (1996)
as A.T.
Spetters (1980)
as Gerrit Witkamp
Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich (2016)
as Oskar Halminski
The Room (2001)
Actor
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight (1994)
as Fred Noonan
Moving McAllister (2007)
as Maxwell McAllister
Wanted: Dead or Alive (1987)
as Nick Randall
Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal (2001)
as Copilot MacIntosh
Precious Find (1996)
as Armond Crille
Bleeders (1997)
as Dr. Marlowe
The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point (2006)
as Gen. Frank Lewis
The Future (2013)
as Maciste
Deathline (1997)
as John Wade
Past Midnight (1992)
as Ben Jordan
Simon Magus (1999)
as Count Albrecht, the Squire
Tonight at Noon (—)
as Diego
Life's a Beach (2010)
as Jean-Luc
Tempesta (2004)
as Van Beuningen
Black Butterflies (2011)
as Abraham Jonker
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon (1997)
as John Thornton
Gangsterdam (2017)
as Dolph
Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989)
as The Brain
Spoon (2011)
as Victor Spoon
The Mill and the Cross (2011)
as Peter Bruegel
2047: Sights of Death (2014)
as Colonel Asimov
Rond Floris (1969)
as Self
Drawing Home (2017)
as Carl Rungius
Dazzle (2009)
Actor
The 5th Execution (2011)
as Khant
Starting Over (2007)
as Peter Rossen
Mirror Wars: Reflection One (2005)
as Mysterious Man
Nostradamus (1994)
as The Mystic Monk
Beyond Justice (1992)
as Tom Burton
All for One (2011)
as Niemeyer
The Hunt for Eagle One (2006)
as Gen. Frank Lewis
Happiness Runs (2010)
as Insley
The Ruby Ring (1997)
as Patrick Collins
Tactical Assault (1998)
as Capitaine John 'Doc' Holiday
Chanel Solitaire (1981)
as Etienne de Balsan
The Broken Key (2017)
as Professor Moonlight
Katie Tippel (1975)
as Hugo
The Heineken Kidnapping (2011)
as Alfred Heineken
Lying in Wait (2001)
as Keith Miller
On a Moonlit Night (1989)
as John Knott
Behind the White Glasses (2015)
as Self
The Reverend (2011)
as The Withstander
Isip the Warrior (—)
as Catholic Priest
The Bankers Of God: The Calvi Affair (2002)
as Paul Marcinkus
The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988)
as Andreas Kartak
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner' (2000)
as Self
Requiem 2019 (2011)
Actor
Scorcher (2002)
as US President Nelson
Break (2020)
as Ray
The Best of Max Headroom (1987)
as Self
New World Disorder (1999)
as David Marx
The Rhapsody (2008)
Actor
Partners in Crime (2000)
as Gene Reardon
Mentor (2006)
as Sanford Pollard
Mariette in Ecstasy (1996)
as Chaplan
Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling (2007)
as Self
Wilder (2000)
as Dr. Sam Dennis Charney
Voyage (1993)
as Morgan Norvell
Woman Between Wolf and Dog (1979)
as Adriaan
Wax - We Are The X (2016)
as Aron Mulder
Starfish Tango (—)
as Self
Real Playing Game (2013)
as Steve Batier
Cold Blood (1975)
as Chris
Heilige Jeanne (1978)
as Dunois
Eating Pattern (1997)
as Bog
Blood of the Innocent (1994)
as Dr. Lem
The Beans of Egypt, Maine (1994)
as Rueben Bean
Agent Ranjid Saves the World (2012)
as Freek van Dyk
Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend' (2004)
as Self
Francesco (2014)
as Padre di Francesco
Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company (1976)
as Lieutenant Duclari
The Prince of Motor City (2008)
as William Hamilton
Valerian (2004)
Actor
Portable Life (2011)
as Antonio
Genderness (2016)
Actor
Fatal Error (1979)
as Rinus de Gier
The Hitcher: How Do These Movies Get Made? (2003)
Actor
Pastorale 1943 (1978)
as August Schultz
Cyrano de Bergerac (1975)
as de Valvert
Es begann bei Tiffany (1979)
as Ryder
Dandelions (1974)
as Rick
Magic Flute Diaries (2008)
as Dr. Richard Nagel
The Revenge of the Dead Indians (1993)
as Himself
Never Enough (2004)
as Sebastian
The Last Words of Dutch Schultz (2001)
as Dutch Schultz(voice)
Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood (1996)
as Himself
More Blood, More Heart: The Making of Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
as Himself
Floris (2004)
as Floris (archive footage from Floris, 1969)
The Worlds of Philip K. Dick (2016)
as Self - Actor
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Michelangelo: The Heart and the Stone (2012)
as Michelangelo
The Cardboard Village (2011)
as Sacristan
Cancer Rising (1975)
as Pierre
3 (2009)
as Father (voice)
Blond, Blue Eyes (2006)
as Self