Rutger Hauer

Acting January 23, 1944 (75 years old) July 19, 2019 Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands

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.

Movies 158

7.7

Batman Begins

as Earle

2005

7.9

Blade Runner

as Batty

1982

6.7

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

as President of the World State Federation

2017

7.5

Sin City

as Cardinal Roark

2005

6.8

The Sisters Brothers

as The Commodore

2018

7.0

Ladyhawke

as Captain Etienne Navarre

1985

6.1

Iron Mask

as English Ambassador

2019

5.6

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

as Lothos

1992

6.0

24 Hours to Live

as Frank

2017

7.0

The Hitcher

as John Ryder

1986

5.1

The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power

as King Zakour

2015

6.1

The Rite

as Istvan Kovak

2011

6.7

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

as Keeler

2002

7.7

Knockin' on Heaven's Door

as Curtiz

1997

6.6

Flesh + Blood

as Martin

1985

7.2

Escape from Sobibor

as Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky

1987

6.0

Goal II: Living the Dream

as Rudi van der Merwe

2007

5.8

Wedlock

as Frank Warren

1991

5.9

Hobo with a Shotgun

as Hobo

2011

5.1

The Poseidon Adventure

as Bishop August Schmidt

2005

6.4

Nighthawks

as Wulfgar

1981

6.0

Split Second

as Stone

1992

6.5

Blind Fury

as Nick Parker

1989

5.6

The Osterman Weekend

as John Tanner

1983

6.8

Turkish Delight

as Erik Vonk

1973

6.3

Fatherland

as SS-Sturmbannführer Xavier March

1994

5.9

The Blood of Heroes

as Sallow

1989

6.0

Wanted: Dead or Alive

as Nick Randall

1987

5.7

Samson

as Manoah

2018

5.3

Eureka

as Claude Maillot Van Horn

1983

6.3

The Wilby Conspiracy

as Blane Van Niekirk

1975

6.5

Admiral

as Maarten Tromp

2015

5.4

Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich

as Oskar Halminski

2016

4.9

Minotaur

as Cyrnan

2006

7.5

Unity

as Narrator (voice)

2015

6.2

Surviving the Game

as Burns

1994

4.9

Dracula III: Legacy

as Dracula

2005

7.2

The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon

as John Thornton

1997

3.5

Dracula 3D

as Abraham van Helsing

2012

7.1

Soldier of Orange

as Erik Lanshof

1977

6.6

The Legend of the Holy Drinker

as Andreas Kartak

1988

7.8

Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner

as Self

2007

6.4

Spetters

as Gerrit Witkamp

1980

7.0

Fifty Shades of Erotica

as (archive footage)

2015

4.2

Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal

as Copilot MacIntosh

2001

5.3

Gangsterdam

as Dolph

2017

6.3

Behind the White Glasses

as Self

2015

6.1

Hostile Waters

as Cap. Britanov

1997

4.5

The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point

as Gen. Frank Lewis

2006

5.1

Crossworlds

as A.T.

1996

4.7

Dead Tone

as Det. John Criton

2007

6.2

Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight

as Fred Noonan

1994

2.9

2047: Sights of Death

as Colonel Asimov

2014

4.4

Blast

as Leo

1997

3.3

Life's a Beach

as Jean-Luc

2010

4.5

Bleeders

as Dr. Marlowe

1997

4.3

Agent Ranjid Saves the World

as Freek van Dyk

2012

4.4

Corbin Nash

as Stranger

2018

6.7

On a Moonlit Night

as John Knott

1989

The Best of Max Headroom

as Self

1987

5.1

Barbarossa

as Federico Barbarossa

2009

5.4

Blind Side

as Jake Shell

1993

3.3

Mirror Wars: Reflection One

as Mysterious Man

2005

5.2

The Hunt for Eagle One

as Gen. Frank Lewis

2006

6.3

The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair

as Paul Marcinkus

2002

5.1

Moving McAllister

as Maxwell McAllister

2007

5.5

Cold Blood

as Chris

1975

5.7

Bloodhounds of Broadway

as The Brain

1989

4.5

Warrior Angels

as Grekkor

2002

5.9

A Breed Apart

as Jim Malden

1984

6.1

The Heineken Kidnapping

as Alfred Heineken

2011

5.1

Past Midnight

as Ben Jordan

1992

5.1

Deathline

as John Wade

1997

5.8

Nostradamus

as The Mystic Monk

1994

6.2

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

as Lieutenant Duclari

1976

4.5

Lying in Wait

as Keith Miller

2001

5.2

Naked and Lustful

1976

4.5

Happiness Runs

as Insley

2010

6.7

Bride Flight

as Old Frank

2008

5.7

The Cardboard Village

as Sacristan

2011

7.7

On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'

as Self

2000

5.2

Mysteries

as Simonsen aka Johan Frederik Nagel

1978

7.4

Simon Magus

as Count Albrecht, the Squire

1999

4.7

Mr. Stitch

as Doctor Rue Wakeman

1995

6.3

Katie Tippel

as Hugo

1975

5.6

Woman Between Wolf and Dog

as Adriaan

1979

Spoon

as Victor Spoon

2011

4.2

New World Disorder

as David Marx

1999

4.5

Scorcher

as US President Nelson

2002

4.8

The Sonata

as Richard Marlowe

2018

5.0

Chanel Solitaire

as Etienne de Balsan

1981

The Prince of Motor City

as William Hamilton

2008

4.0

Real Playing Game

as Steve Batier

2013

4.9

Tempesta

as Van Beuningen

2004

6.0

The Beans of Egypt, Maine

as Rueben Bean

1994

7.3

The Hitcher: How Do These Movies Get Made?

2003

3.7

The 5th Execution

as Khant

2011

3.2

The Broken Key

as Professor Moonlight

2017

5.4

Precious Find

as Armond Crille

1996

5.7

Break

as Ray

2020

Michelangelo: The Heart and the Stone

as Michelangelo

2012

4.5

Omega Doom

as Omega Doom

1996

10.0

Rond Floris

as Self

1969

5.7

The Letters

as Benjamin Praagh

2014

6.7

Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'

as Self

2004

8.0

Mariette in Ecstasy

as Chaplan

1996

6.4

The Mill and the Cross

as Peter Bruegel

2011

6.5

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

as Himself

2011

5.9

All for One

as Niemeyer

2011

The Rhapsody

2008

4.7

Arctic Blue

as Ben Corbett

1993

5.6

Black Butterflies

as Abraham Jonker

2011

5.2

Blood of the Innocent

as Dr. Lem

1994

Tonight at Noon

as Diego

7.0

Eating Pattern

as Bog

1997

5.2

Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood

as Himself

1996

6.6

The Worlds of Philip K. Dick

as Self - Actor

2016

4.0

The Edge

as Sheriff Emil Abel (Indian Poker)

1989

3.8

Beyond Justice

as Tom Burton

1992

4.4

Wilder

as Dr. Sam Dennis Charney

2000

4.6

Bone Daddy

as Palmer

1998

7.2

The Room

2001

5.9

Fatal Error

as Rinus de Gier

1979

Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling

as Self

2007

7.2

WAX: We Are the X

as Aron Mulder

2016

3.2

The Reverend

as The Withstander

2011

8.2

Mentor

as Sanford Pollard

2006

6.2

The Ruby Ring

as Patrick Collins

1997

Magic Flute Diaries

as Dr. Richard Nagel

2008

5.7

Pastorale 1943

as August Schultz

1978

4.1

Flying Virus

as Ezekial

2001

5.2

The Future

as Maciste

2013

7.0

The Revenge of the Dead Indians

as Himself

1993

Roel Oostra – Theaterman in hart en nieren

as Self (archive footage)

2026

4.5

Starting Over

as Peter Rossen

2007

7.0

Francesco

as Padre di Francesco

2014

5.3

Tactical Assault

as Capitaine John 'Doc' Holiday

1998

6.7

Partners in Crime

as Gene Reardon

2000

Isip the Warrior

as Catholic Priest

Cyrano de Bergerac

as de Valvert

1975

7.0

Cancer Rising

as Pierre

1975

4.5

Dandelions

as Rick

1974

10.0

Never Enough

as Sebastian

2004

4.8

Es begann bei Tiffany

as Ryder

1979

5.6

Clones

as Dr. Richards

2015

5.3

Voyage

as Morgan Norvell

1993

Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood

as Self (archive footage)

2021

5.8

Dazzle

2009

Portable Life

as Antonio

2011

Drawing Home

as Carl Rungius

2017

8.0

3

as Father (voice)

2009

7.0

The Last Words of Dutch Schultz

as Dutch Schultz(voice)

2001

Heilige Jeanne

as Dunois

1978

8.0

Requiem 2019

2011

5.6

Floris

as Floris (archive footage from Floris, 1969)

2004

Genderness

2016

6.7

Blond, Blue Eyes

as Self

2006

Starfish Tango

as Self

TV Shows 30

8.3

The Last Kingdom

as Ravn

2015

8.2

Smallville

as Morgan Edge

2001

5.1

De Wereld Draait Door

as Self

2005

7.6

True Blood

as Niall Brigant

2008

6.6

American Playhouse

as The Brain

1982

6.6

American Playhouse

as Reuben Bean

1982

7.2

Omnibus

as Narrator (voice)

1967

5.3

V Graham Norton

as Self

2002

7.0

Lexx

as Bog

1997

7.0

Channel Zero

as Joseph Peach

2016

6.8

Alias

as Anthony Geiger

2001

7.3

Galavant

as Kingsley

2015

7.6

The 10th Kingdom

as Huntsman

2000

7.5

The Max Headroom Show

as Self

1985

6.9

Merlin

as King Vortingern

1998

5.8

Metal Hurlant Chronicles

as Kerm

2012

6.8

The Real History of Science Fiction

as Self

2014

6.0

Salem's Lot

as Kurt Barlow

2004

5.3

Mata Hari

as Стольбаккен

2017

7.7

Porters

as Tillman

2017

7.0

Inside the Third Reich

as Albert Speer

1982

6.3

Flight of the Storks

as Sonderman

2013

8.0

Floris von Rosemund

as Floris

1975

8.0

Floris

as Floris van Rosemondt

1969

Zomer Draait Door, De

2007

Francesco

as Padre di Francesco

2014

8.0

The Law of the Desert

as Tom Burton

1991

6.5

For Queen and Country

as Erik Lanshof

1979

Blind Channel: After Dark Side

as Jake Shell

2024

7.0

Duel In De Diepte

as John van der Velde

1979