Rutger Hauer

Rutger Oelsen Hauer 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: Acting

Born: Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands, 1944-01-23

Died: 2019-07-19

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1973	Turkish Delight	Eric Vonk	68
2	1975	The Wilby Conspiracy	Blane Van Niekirk	64
3	1975	Katie Tippel	Hugo	65
4	1977	Soldier of Orange	Erik Lanshof	71
5	1980	Spetters	Gerrit Witkamp	64
6	1981	Nighthawks	Wulfgar	64
7	1982	Blade Runner	Batty	79
8	1983	Eureka	Claude Maillot Van Horn	53
9	1983	The Osterman Weekend	John Tanner	57
10	1985	Ladyhawke	Captain Etienne Navarre	70
11	1985	Flesh + Blood	Martin	66
12	1986	The Hitcher	John Ryder	70
13	1987	Wanted: Dead or Alive	Nick Randall	59
14	1987	Escape from Sobibor	Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky	72
15	1989	On a Moonlit Night	John Knott	61
16	1989	The Blood of Heroes	Sallow	59
17	1991	Wedlock	Frank Warren	58
18	1992	Split Second	Stone	59
19	1992	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Lothos	56
20	1993	Blind Side	Jake Shell	54
21	1994	Fatherland	SS-Sturmbannführer Xavier March	62
22	1996	Precious Find	Armond Crille	53
23	1997	Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Curtiz	77
24	1997	Hostile Waters	Cap. Britanov	60
25	1998	Tactical Assault	Capitaine John 'Doc' Holiday	48
26	1999	New World Disorder	David Marx	35
27	2000	Wilder	Dr. Sam Dennis Charney	41
28	2002	Scorcher	US President Nelson	45
29	2002	Confessions of a Dangerous Mind	Keeler	67
30	2005	Sin City	Cardinal Roark	75
31	2005	Batman Begins	Earle	77
32	2005	The Poseidon Adventure	Bishop August Schmidt	52
33	2006	The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point	Gen. Frank Lewis	44
34	2007	Goal II: Living the Dream	Rudi van der Merwe	60
35	2007	Dead Tone	Det. John Criton	46
36	2007	Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling	Self	0
37	2010	Happiness Runs	Insley	40
38		Isip the Warrior	Catholic Priest	0
39		Tonight at Noon	Diego	0
40	1969	Rond Floris	Self	100
41	1975	Cancer Rising	Pierre	63
42	1978	Mysteries	Johan Nagel	51
43	1979	Es begann bei Tiffany	Ryder	40
44	1979	Woman Between Wolf and Dog	Adriaan	56
45	1982	Inside the Third Reich	Albert Speer	72
46	1993	The Revenge of the Dead Indians	Himself	0
47	1993	Voyage	Morgan Norvell	51
48	1994	Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight	Fred Noonan	62
49	1994	The Beans of Egypt, Maine	Rueben Bean	50
50	1996	Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood	Himself	52
51	1997	Blast	Leo	38
52	1997	Eating Pattern	Bog	70
53	1997	The Ruby Ring	Patrick Collins	55
54	2000	Partners in Crime	Gene Reardon	55
55	2000	On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'	Self	72
56	2001	Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal	Copilot MacIntosh	42
57	2002	Warrior Angels	Grekkor	38
58	2004	Never Enough	Sebastian	100
59	2005	Mirror Wars: Reflection One	Mysterious Man	31
60	2006	Blond, Blue Eyes	Self	67
61	2007	Starting Over	Peter Rossen	40
62	2008	The Prince of Motor City	William Hamilton	0
63	2009	Dazzle		58
64	2009	3	Father (voice)	0
65	2011	Spoon	Victor Spoon	0
66	2011	Requiem 2019		0
67	2011	More Blood, More Heart: The Making of Hobo with a Shotgun	Himself	68
68	2012	Agent Ranjid Saves the World	Freek van Dyk	43
69	2013	Real Playing Game	Steve Batier	40
70	2013	The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy	Self (archive footage)	68
71	2014	The Letters	Benjamin Praagh	55
72	2014	2047: Sights of Death	Colonel Asimov	29
73	2014	Francesco	Padre di Francesco	70
74	2015	The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power	King Zakour	51
75	2015	Admiral	Maarten Tromp	64
76	2015	Unity	Narrator (voice)	75
77	2015	Behind the White Glasses	Self	63
78	2016	The Worlds of Philip K. Dick	Self - Actor	68
79	2017	Drawing Home	Carl Rungius	0
80		Starfish Tango	Self	0
81	1974	Dandelions	Rick	42
82	1975	Cold Blood	Cris	56
83	1975	Cyrano de Bergerac	de Valvert	0
84	1976	Max Havelaar	Duclari	61
85	1976	Naked and Lustful		48
86	1978	Heilige Jeanne	Dunois	0
87	1978	Pastorale 1943	August Schultz	55
88	1979	Fatal Error	Rinus de Gier	60
89	1981	Chanel Solitaire	Etienne de Balsan	47
90	1984	A Breed Apart	Jim Malden	57
91	1987	The Best of Max Headroom	Self	0
92	1988	The Legend of the Holy Drinker	Andreas Kartak	65
93	1989	Blind Fury	Nick Parker	65
94	1989	The Edge	Sheriff Emil Abel	20
95	1989	Bloodhounds of Broadway	The Brain	56
96	1991	Desert Law	Tom Burton	54
97	1992	Past Midnight	Ben Jordan	51
98	1992	Beyond Justice	Tom Burton	36
99	1993	Arctic Blue	Ben Corbett	45
100	1994	Blood of the Innocent	Dr. Lem	45
101	1994	Surviving the Game	Thomas Burns	61
102	1994	Nostradamus	The Mystic Monk	57
103	1995	Mr. Stitch	Doctor Rue Wakeman	46
104	1996	Crossworlds	A.T.	51
105	1996	Mariette in Ecstasy	Chaplan	0
106	1996	Omega Doom	Omega Doom	44
107	1997	The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon	John Thornton	74
108	1997	Bleeders	Dr. Marlowe	44
109	1997	Deathline	John Wade	51
110	1998	Merlin	Roi Vortigern	0
111	1998	Bone Daddy	Palmer	42
112	1999	Simon Magus	Count Albrecht, the Squire	73
113	2001	Lying in Wait	Keith Miller	43
114	2001	The Room		65
115	2001	Flying Virus	Ezekial	38
116	2002	The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair	Paul Marcinkus	61
117	2003	The Hitcher: How Do These Movies Get Made?		70
118	2004	Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'	Self	70
119	2004	Tempesta	Van Beuningen	51
120	2005	Dracula III: Legacy	Dracula	49
121	2006	The Hunt for Eagle One	Gen. Frank Lewis	52
122	2006	Minotaur	Cyrnan	49
123	2006	Mentor	Sanford Pollard	80
124	2007	Moving McAllister	Maxwell McAllister	50
125	2007	Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner	Self	79
126	2008	Magic Flute Diaries	Dr. Richard Nagel	0
127	2008	Bride Flight	Old Frank	68
128	2009	Barbarossa	Federico Barbarossa	53
129	2010	Life's a Beach	Jean-Luc	25
130	2011	The Rite	Istvan Kovak	61
131	2011	Black Butterflies	Abraham Jonker	57
132	2011	All for One	Niemeyer	60
133	2011	The Mill and the Cross	Peter Bruegel	64
134	2011	The 5th Execution	Khant	37
135	2011	Hobo with a Shotgun	Hobo	59
136	2011	The Reverend	The Withstander	35
137	2011	Portable Life	Antonio	0
138	2011	The Cardboard Village	Sacristan	57
139	2011	The Heineken Kidnapping	Alfred Heineken	61
140	2012	Michelangelo: The Heart and the Stone	Michelangelo	0
141	2012	Dracula 3D	Abraham van Helsing	34
142	2013	The Future	Maciste	53
143	2015	Fifty Shades of Erotica		70
144	2015	Clones	Dr. Richards	50
145	2016	Wax - We Are The X	Aron Mulder	72
146	2016	Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich	Oskar Halminski	55
147	2016	Genderness		0
148	2017	Uncle Howard	Self (archive footage)	65
149	2017	Gangsterdam	Dolph	53
150	2017	Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets	President of the World State Federation	66
151	2017	24 Hours to Live	Frank	59
152	2017	The Broken Key	Professor Moonlight	33
153	2018	Samson	Manoah	57
154	2018	Corbin Nash	Stranger	46
155	2018	The Sisters Brothers	The Commodore	68
156	2018	The Sonata	Richard Marlowe	48
157	2019	Iron Mask	English Ambassador	61
158	2020	Break	Ray	55
159	2021	Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood	Himself (archive footage)	0
160	2024	Like Tears in Rain	Self (archive footage)	75
161	2026	Emperor	John The Constant	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1967	Omnibus	Narrator (voice)	72
2	1969	Floris	Floris	77
3	1975	Floris von Rosemund	Floris	70
4	1979	For Queen and Country	Erik Lanshof	65
5	1979	Duel In De Diepte	John van der Velde	55
6	1985	The Max Headroom Show	Self	75
7	1997	Lexx	Bog	71
8	1998	Merlin	King Vortingern	69
9	2000	The 10th Kingdom	Huntsman	76
10	2001	Alias	Anthony Geiger	68
11	2001	Smallville	Morgan Edge	82
12	2002	V Graham Norton	Self	50
13	2004	Salem's Lot	Kurt Barlow	59
14	2005	De Wereld Draait Door	Self	56
15	2007	Zomer Draait Door, De		0
16	2008	True Blood	Niall Brigant	76
17	2012	Metal Hurlant Chronicles	Kerm	61
18	2013	Flight of the Storks	Sonderman	66
19	2014	The Real History of Science Fiction	Himself	69
20	2014	Francesco	Padre di Francesco	0
21	2015	Galavant	Kingsley	73
22	2015	The Last Kingdom	Ravn	83
23	2016	Channel Zero	Joseph Peach	71
24	2017	Mata Hari	Стольбаккен	52
25	2017	Porters	Tillman	83

Rutger Hauer

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