Rutger Hauer
Known for Acting · 184 credits
- Born
- 1944-01-23
- Died
- 2019-07-19
- Place of birth
- Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Also known as
- راتخر هاور · رودگر هاور · 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.
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
TV Shows (27)
Smallville
2001
as Morgan Edge
The Last Kingdom
2015
as Ravn
True Blood
2008
as Niall Brigant
Omnibus
1967
as Narrator (voice)
De Wereld Draait Door
2005
as Self
Lexx
1997
as Bog
V Graham Norton
2002
as Self
Channel Zero
2016
as Joseph Peach
Alias
2001
as Anthony Geiger
Galavant
2015
as Kingsley
The 10th Kingdom
2000
as Huntsman
Merlin
1998
as King Vortingern
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014
as Self
Salem's Lot
2004
as Kurt Barlow
Porters
2017
as Tillman
Metal Hurlant Chronicles
2012
as Kerm
The Max Headroom Show
1985
as Self
Mata Hari
2017
as Стольбаккен
The Law of the Desert
1991
as Tom Burton
Inside the Third Reich
1982
as Albert Speer
Floris
1969
as Floris van Rosemondt
For Queen and Country
1979
as Erik Lanshof
Francesco
2014
as Padre di Francesco
Floris von Rosemund
1975
as Floris
Flight of the Storks
2013
as Sonderman
Zomer Draait Door, De
2007
Duel In De Diepte
1979
as John van der Velde
Movies (157)
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
Fifty Shades of Erotica
2015
as (archive footage)
Sin City
2005
as Cardinal Roark
Iron Mask
2019
as English Ambassador
The Hitcher
1986
as John Ryder
Ladyhawke
1985
as Captain Etienne Navarre
Goal II: Living the Dream
2007
as Rudi van der Merwe
The Rite
2011
as Istvan Kovak
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2002
as Keeler
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992
as Lothos
Blind Fury
1989
as Nick Parker
Samson
2018
as Manoah
Wedlock
1991
as Frank Warren
Unity
2015
as Narrator (voice)
Nighthawks
1981
as Wulfgar
Split Second
1992
as Stone
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
2015
as King Zakour
24 Hours to Live
2017
as Frank
The Sisters Brothers
2018
as The Commodore
Flesh + Blood
1985
as Martin
Escape from Sobibor
1987
as Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky
Blind Side
1993
as Jake Shell
The Poseidon Adventure
2005
as Bishop August Schmidt
Surviving the Game
1994
as Burns
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
1997
as Curtiz
Scorcher
2002
as US President Nelson
Dracula 3D
2012
as Abraham van Helsing
Hostile Waters
1997
as Cap. Britanov
Bleeders
1997
as Dr. Marlowe
Mysteries
1978
as Simonsen aka Johan Frederik Nagel
The Reverend
2011
as The Withstander
Minotaur
2006
as Cyrnan
Fatherland
1994
as SS-Sturmbannführer Xavier March
Chanel Solitaire
1981
as Etienne de Balsan
Tactical Assault
1998
as Capitaine John 'Doc' Holiday
Mentor
2006
as Sanford Pollard
Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich
2016
as Oskar Halminski
Blast
1997
as Leo
Hobo with a Shotgun
2011
as Hobo
Turkish Delight
1973
as Erik Vonk
The Blood of Heroes
1989
as Sallow
The Osterman Weekend
1983
as John Tanner
Warrior Angels
2002
as Grekkor
Eureka
1983
as Claude Maillot Van Horn
Crossworlds
1996
as A.T.
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
2007
as Self
Dracula III: Legacy
2005
as Dracula
Soldier of Orange
1977
as Erik Lanshof
Barbarossa
2009
as Federico Barbarossa
The Wilby Conspiracy
1975
as Blane Van Niekirk
Moonage Daydream
2022
as Self (archive voice)
Nostradamus
1994
as The Mystic Monk
Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal
2001
as Copilot MacIntosh
Admiral
2015
as Maarten Tromp
The Letters
2014
as Benjamin Praagh
Beyond Justice
1992
as Tom Burton
Dead Tone
2007
as Det. John Criton
Moving McAllister
2007
as Maxwell McAllister
Black Butterflies
2011
as Abraham Jonker
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1987
as Nick Randall
Pastorale 1943
1978
as August Schultz
Spetters
1980
as Gerrit Witkamp
Corbin Nash
2018
as Stranger
A Breed Apart
1984
as Jim Malden
Naked and Lustful
1976
Omega Doom
1996
as Omega Doom
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989
as The Brain
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
1994
as Fred Noonan
Past Midnight
1992
as Ben Jordan
Arctic Blue
1993
as Ben Corbett
Deathline
1997
as John Wade
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
2000
as Self
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997
as John Thornton
Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
2004
as Self
Tempesta
2004
as Van Beuningen
Life's a Beach
2010
as Jean-Luc
The Heineken Kidnapping
2011
as Alfred Heineken
Behind the White Glasses
2015
as Self
The Edge
1989
as Sheriff Emil Abel (Indian Poker)
The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point
2006
as Gen. Frank Lewis
Break
2020
as Ray
Gangsterdam
2017
as Dolph
Tonight at Noon
as Diego
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
1988
as Andreas Kartak
Blood of the Innocent
1994
as Dr. Lem
Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
1976
as Lieutenant Duclari
The Mill and the Cross
2011
as Peter Bruegel
Wilder
2000
as Dr. Sam Dennis Charney
On a Moonlit Night
1989
as John Knott
The Sonata
2018
as Richard Marlowe
The 5th Execution
2011
as Khant
Mirror Wars: Reflection One
2005
as Mysterious Man
Lying in Wait
2001
as Keith Miller
Precious Find
1996
as Armond Crille
Bone Daddy
1998
as Palmer
Real Playing Game
2013
as Steve Batier
The Prince of Motor City
2008
as William Hamilton
Happiness Runs
2010
as Insley
Portable Life
2011
as Antonio
Spoon
2011
as Victor Spoon
The Beans of Egypt, Maine
1994
as Rueben Bean
Drawing Home
2017
as Carl Rungius
The Hunt for Eagle One
2006
as Gen. Frank Lewis
The Future
2013
as Maciste
Mr. Stitch
1995
as Doctor Rue Wakeman
Dandelions
1974
as Rick
The Bankers Of God: The Calvi Affair
2002
as Paul Marcinkus
Starting Over
2007
as Peter Rossen
The Revenge of the Dead Indians
1993
as Himself
Partners in Crime
2000
as Gene Reardon
Eating Pattern
1997
as Bog
Voyage
1993
as Morgan Norvell
2047: Sights of Death
2014
as Colonel Asimov
Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood
1996
as Himself
More Blood, More Heart: The Making of Hobo with a Shotgun
2011
as Himself
The Ruby Ring
1997
as Patrick Collins
Mariette in Ecstasy
1996
as Chaplan
3
2009
as Father (voice)
About Rutger Hauer
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 d… With 184 credits spanning from 1967 to 2022, Rutger Hauer has appeared in 157 films and 27 TV shows.
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- 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
- Fifty Shades of Erotica (2015) — as (archive footage)
- Sin City (2005) — as Cardinal Roark
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