Rutger Hauer

Acting · 2.0 popularity

Age

Movies

158

Born: January 23, 1944 – July 19, 2019
From: Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands
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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.

Works

158 films

Batman Begins

20057.7

Blade Runner

19827.9

Sin City

20057.5

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

20176.7

The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power

20155.1

The Hitcher

19867.0

The Rite

20116.1

Iron Mask

20196.1

Ladyhawke

19857.0

The Sisters Brothers

20186.8

Blind Fury

19896.5

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

20026.7

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

19925.6

Samson

20185.7

24 Hours to Live

20175.9

Goal II: Living the Dream

20076.0

Flesh + Blood

19856.6

Split Second

19925.9

The Poseidon Adventure

20055.2

Mysteries

19785.2

Nighthawks

19816.4

Turkish Delight

19736.8

Dracula 3D

20123.5

Eureka

19835.3

Fatherland

19946.2

Soldier of Orange

19777.1

Escape from Sobibor

19877.2

Knockin' on Heaven's Door

19977.7

Surviving the Game

19946.1

Blast

19974.4

Tonight at Noon

2026

Moonage Daydream

20227.5

Dead Tone

20074.7

Wanted: Dead or Alive

19876.0

Hostile Waters

19976.1

Spetters

19806.4

Wedlock

19915.8

The Wilby Conspiracy

19756.4

Hobo with a Shotgun

20115.9

Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich

20165.3

Rond Floris

196910.0

Naked and Lustful

19765.2

Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner

20077.8

Fifty Shades of Erotica

20157.0

Admiral

20156.5

Life's a Beach

20103.3

The Blood of Heroes

19895.9

The Osterman Weekend

19835.6

Unity

20157.5

Gangsterdam

20175.3

Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal

20014.3

Bloodhounds of Broadway

19895.7

The Sonata

20184.8

Minotaur

20064.9

The Rhapsody

2008

2047: Sights of Death

20142.9

Bleeders

19974.5

Dracula III: Legacy

20054.9

Deathline

19975.1

The Mill and the Cross

20116.4

Warrior Angels

20024.5

Tempesta

20044.9

Bone Daddy

19984.6

Corbin Nash

20184.5

The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon

19977.3

The Best of Max Headroom

1987

Magic Flute Diaries

2008

The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point

20064.5

Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight

19946.2

Barbarossa

20095.2

Past Midnight

19925.1

Crossworlds

19965.2

The Room

20017.2

Dazzle

20095.8

Precious Find

19965.4

The Legend of the Holy Drinker

19886.6

A Breed Apart

19845.8

Blind Side

19935.5

Mariette in Ecstasy

19968.0

Omega Doom

19964.5

Clones

20155.5

The Future

20135.2

Mirror Wars: Reflection One

20053.3

The Edge

19894.0

Arctic Blue

19934.7

Scorcher

20024.6

New World Disorder

19994.2

Black Butterflies

20115.6

The Letters

20145.5

Bride Flight

20086.7

Katie Tippel

19756.3

The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair

20026.3

The Broken Key

20173.2

Woman Between Wolf and Dog

19795.6

Mr. Stitch

19954.7

Behind the White Glasses

20156.3

The Hunt for Eagle One

20065.4

The 5th Execution

20113.7

Flying Virus

20014.1

Nostradamus

19945.8

The Heineken Kidnapping

20116.1

Moving McAllister

20075.1

Cyrano de Bergerac

1975

The Last Words of Dutch Schultz

20017.0

Happiness Runs

20104.5

The Revenge of the Dead Indians

19937.0

Chanel Solitaire

19815.0

Beyond Justice

19923.8

On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'

20007.7

Fatal Error

19795.9

Cold Blood

19755.5

The Worlds of Philip K. Dick

20166.6

Real Playing Game

20134.0

Mentor

20068.3

Simon Magus

19997.4

All for One

20116.0

Spoon

2011

Partners in Crime

20006.7

Break

20205.7

Drawing Home

2017

Isip the Warrior

2026

Lying in Wait

20014.5

Agent Ranjid Saves the World

20124.3

On a Moonlit Night

19896.7

Es begann bei Tiffany

19794.8

The Reverend

20113.3

20098.0

Wax - We Are The X

20167.2

Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company

19766.2

Tactical Assault

19985.3

Pastorale 1943

19785.7

Dandelions

19744.5

Voyage

19935.3

Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling

2007

Requiem 2019

20118.0

Wilder

20004.4

Starting Over

20074.5

The Beans of Egypt, Maine

19946.0

Blood of the Innocent

19945.3

The Cardboard Village

20115.7

Never Enough

200410.0

Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'

20047.0

The Prince of Motor City

2008

The Hitcher: How Do These Movies Get Made?

20037.5

Floris

20045.6

Francesco

20147.0

The Ruby Ring

19976.3

Cancer Rising

19757.0

Portable Life

2011

Eating Pattern

19977.0

Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood

2021

Michelangelo: The Heart and the Stone

2012

Blond, Blue Eyes

20066.7

More Blood, More Heart: The Making of Hobo with a Shotgun

20116.5

Genderness

2016

Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood

19965.2

Starfish Tango

2026

Heilige Jeanne

1978