Rutger Hauer
Acting
🎂 1944-01-23
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.
Cast credits(182)
Morgan Edge
2001
Ravn
2015
Niall Brigant
2008
Narrator (voice)
1967
Earle
2005
Batty
1982
President of the World State Federation
2017
Bog
1997
Self
2002
Cardinal Roark
2005
English Ambassador
2019
Joseph Peach
2016
King Vortingern
1998
(archive footage)
2015
Captain Etienne Navarre
1985
Istvan Kovak
2011
Kingsley
2015
John Ryder
1986
Anthony Geiger
2001
Keeler
2002
Huntsman
2000
The Commodore
2018
Hobo
2011
Nick Parker
1989
King Zakour
2015
Manoah
2018
Martin
1985
August Schultz
1978
Lothos
1992
John The Constant
2026
Himself
2014
Curtiz
1997
Stone
1992
Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky
1987
Frank
2017
Det. John Criton
2007
Self
2005
Ryder
1979
Niemeyer
2011
Oskar Halminski
2016
Kerm
2012
The Withstander
2011
Rudi van der Merwe
2007
Wulfgar
1981
Freek van Dyk
2012
Bishop August Schmidt
2005
Dolph
2017
Self
1985
Kurt Barlow
2004
Стольбаккен
2017
Mysterious Man
2005
Abraham van Helsing
2012
Richard Marlowe
2018
Maciste
2013
Stranger
2018
Ezekial
2001
Johan Nagel
1978
Sallow
1989
Michelangelo
2012
Dr. Richard Nagel
2008
US President Nelson
2002
Narrator (voice)
2015
Fred Noonan
1994
SS-Sturmbannführer Xavier March
1994
2001
Van Beuningen
2004
Bog
1997
Blane Van Niekirk
1975
Khant
2011
John Tanner
1983
Etienne de Balsan
1981
Peter Bruegel
2011
Thomas Burns
1994
Eric Vonk
1973
John Thornton
1997
Steve Batier
2013
Keith Miller
2001
Albert Speer
1982
Gen. Frank Lewis
2006
A.T.
1996
Nick Randall
1987
Count Albrecht, the Squire
1999
Dracula
2005
Maarten Tromp
2015
Sheriff Emil Abel (Indian Poker)
1989
Jake Shell
1993
Andreas Kartak
1988
Gerrit Witkamp
1980
Copilot MacIntosh
2001
The Mystic Monk
1994
Gene Reardon
2000
Leo
1997
Doctor Rue Wakeman
1995
de Valvert
1975
Cap. Britanov
1997
Self
2015
Adriaan
1979
Insley
2010
Frank Warren
1991
Cris
1975
Ben Jordan
1992
Erik Lanshof
1977
Floris
1969
Jim Malden
1984
Self
1987
Aron Mulder
2016
Dunois
1978
Self
2007
Palmer
1998
Maxwell McAllister
2007
Rinus de Gier
1979
Carl Rungius
2017
John Wade
1997
Paul Marcinkus
2002
Old Frank
2008
Cyrnan
2006
Self
1969
Abraham Jonker
2011
Pierre
1975
Ben Corbett
1993
Professor Moonlight
2017
The Brain
1989
Hugo
1975
Gen. Frank Lewis
2006
Tom Burton
1992
Federico Barbarossa
2009
Colonel Asimov
2014
Tillman
2017
Patrick Collins
1997
Alfred Heineken
2011
Claude Maillot Van Horn
1983
Ray
2020
John Knott
1989
Benjamin Praagh
2014
Himself
1993
Padre di Francesco
2014
Grekkor
2002
Tom Burton
1991
Dr. Marlowe
1997
Dr. Lem
1994
Sonderman
2013
Peter Rossen
2007
Padre di Francesco
2014
Rueben Bean
1994
1976
David Marx
1999
Morgan Norvell
1993
Armond Crille
1996
Jean-Luc
2010
William Hamilton
2008
Dr. Sam Dennis Charney
2000
Self
2000
Floris
1975
Chaplan
1996
Antonio
2011
Omega Doom
1996
John van der Velde
1979
Sebastian
2004
Duclari
1976
Diego
Self - Actor
2016
Erik Lanshof
1979
Sacristan
2011
Capitaine John 'Doc' Holiday
1998
2007
Sanford Pollard
2006
Rick
1974
Dr. Richards
2015
Catholic Priest
2003
Himself (archive footage)
2021
Self
2007
Victor Spoon
2011
Self
2006
2011
Self
2016
2009
Himself
2011
Father (voice)
2009
Self
2004
Himself
1996