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