Rutger Hauer
Known for Acting · 187 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 (28)
Smallville
2001
as Morgan Edge
The Last Kingdom
2015
as Ravn
True Blood
2008
as Niall Brigant
American Playhouse
1982
as The Brain / Reuben Bean
Omnibus
1967
as Narrator (voice)
De Wereld Draait Door
2005
as Self
V Graham Norton
2002
as Self
Lexx
1997
as Bog
Channel Zero
2016
as Joseph Peach
Merlin
1998
as King Vortingern
Alias
2001
as Anthony Geiger
The 10th Kingdom
2000
as Huntsman
Galavant
2015
as Kingsley
Mata Hari
2017
as Стольбаккен
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014
as Self
Salem's Lot
2004
as Kurt Barlow
Metal Hurlant Chronicles
2012
as Kerm
Porters
2017
as Tillman
Duel In De Diepte
1979
as John van der Velde
Floris von Rosemund
1975
as Floris
The Max Headroom Show
1985
as Self
Inside the Third Reich
1982
as Albert Speer
Zomer Draait Door, De
2007
Floris
1969
as Floris van Rosemondt
Francesco
2014
as Padre di Francesco
Flight of the Storks
2013
as Sonderman
The Law of the Desert
1991
as Tom Burton
For Queen and Country
1979
as Erik Lanshof
Movies (159)
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)
Mysteries
1978
as Simonsen aka Johan Frederik Nagel
Ladyhawke
1985
as Captain Etienne Navarre
Samson
2018
as Manoah
The Hitcher
1986
as John Ryder
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992
as Lothos
24 Hours to Live
2017
as Frank
The Sisters Brothers
2018
as The Commodore
Goal II: Living the Dream
2007
as Rudi van der Merwe
Naked and Lustful
1976
Split Second
1992
as Stone
The Rite
2011
as Istvan Kovak
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
2015
as King Zakour
Flesh + Blood
1985
as Martin
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2002
as Keeler
Nighthawks
1981
as Wulfgar
Blast
1997
as Leo
The Poseidon Adventure
2005
as Bishop August Schmidt
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
1997
as Curtiz
Fatherland
1994
as SS-Sturmbannführer Xavier March
Tonight at Noon
as Diego
Spetters
1980
as Gerrit Witkamp
Blind Fury
1989
as Nick Parker
Hobo with a Shotgun
2011
as Hobo
Escape from Sobibor
1987
as Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky
Turkish Delight
1973
as Erik Vonk
Eureka
1983
as Claude Maillot Van Horn
The Blood of Heroes
1989
as Sallow
The Osterman Weekend
1983
as John Tanner
Moonage Daydream
2022
as Self (archive voice)
Life's a Beach
2010
as Jean-Luc
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989
as The Brain
The Wilby Conspiracy
1975
as Blane Van Niekirk
Admiral
2015
as Maarten Tromp
Gangsterdam
2017
as Dolph
Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich
2016
as Oskar Halminski
Deathline
1997
as John Wade
Dracula 3D
2012
as Abraham van Helsing
Tempesta
2004
as Van Beuningen
The Rhapsody
2008
Valerian
2004
Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal
2001
as Copilot MacIntosh
Warrior Angels
2002
as Grekkor
Bleeders
1997
as Dr. Marlowe
Precious Find
1996
as Armond Crille
Surviving the Game
1994
as Burns
Hostile Waters
1997
as Cap. Britanov
Rond Floris
1969
as Self
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1987
as Nick Randall
Corbin Nash
2018
as Stranger
Soldier of Orange
1977
as Erik Lanshof
A Breed Apart
1984
as Jim Malden
Minotaur
2006
as Cyrnan
The Hunt for Eagle One
2006
as Gen. Frank Lewis
Wedlock
1991
as Frank Warren
Unity
2015
as Narrator (voice)
The Mill and the Cross
2011
as Peter Bruegel
Bride Flight
2008
as Old Frank
Blood of the Innocent
1994
as Dr. Lem
Partners in Crime
2000
as Gene Reardon
Isip the Warrior
as Catholic Priest
The Room
2001
The Heineken Kidnapping
2011
as Alfred Heineken
Dazzle
2009
Omega Doom
1996
as Omega Doom
On a Moonlit Night
1989
as John Knott
Dracula III: Legacy
2005
as Dracula
Dead Tone
2007
as Det. John Criton
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997
as John Thornton
The Best of Max Headroom
1987
as Self
The Letters
2014
as Benjamin Praagh
Blind Side
1993
as Jake Shell
Fatal Error
1979
as Rinus de Gier
Black Butterflies
2011
as Abraham Jonker
Mariette in Ecstasy
1996
as Chaplan
Arctic Blue
1993
as Ben Corbett
Clones
2015
as Dr. Richards
The Sonata
2018
as Richard Marlowe
Past Midnight
1992
as Ben Jordan
2047: Sights of Death
2014
as Colonel Asimov
Flying Virus
2001
as Ezekial
Beyond Justice
1992
as Tom Burton
The Broken Key
2017
as Professor Moonlight
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
1988
as Andreas Kartak
The Bankers Of God: The Calvi Affair
2002
as Paul Marcinkus
Barbarossa
2009
as Federico Barbarossa
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
2000
as Self
Tactical Assault
1998
as Capitaine John 'Doc' Holiday
Crossworlds
1996
as A.T.
Spoon
2011
as Victor Spoon
Cyrano de Bergerac
1975
as de Valvert
Lying in Wait
2001
as Keith Miller
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
2007
as Self
Nostradamus
1994
as The Mystic Monk
Mentor
2006
as Sanford Pollard
Moving McAllister
2007
as Maxwell McAllister
The Future
2013
as Maciste
The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point
2006
as Gen. Frank Lewis
Happiness Runs
2010
as Insley
Real Playing Game
2013
as Steve Batier
The Reverend
2011
as The Withstander
Behind the White Glasses
2015
as Self
Mirror Wars: Reflection One
2005
as Mysterious Man
Starting Over
2007
as Peter Rossen
The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
2001
as Dutch Schultz(voice)
The Prince of Motor City
2008
as William Hamilton
Chanel Solitaire
1981
as Etienne de Balsan
Cold Blood
1975
as Chris
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
1994
as Fred Noonan
Mr. Stitch
1995
as Doctor Rue Wakeman
Woman Between Wolf and Dog
1979
as Adriaan
The Edge
1989
as Sheriff Emil Abel (Indian Poker)
Break
2020
as Ray
Scorcher
2002
as US President Nelson
Katie Tippel
1975
as Hugo
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 187 credits spanning from 1967 to 2022, Rutger Hauer has appeared in 159 films and 28 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
- Sin City (2005) — as Cardinal Roark
- Iron Mask (2019) — as English Ambassador
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