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 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
Smallville
Morgan Edge
The Last Kingdom
Ravn
True Blood
Niall Brigant
Batman Begins
Earle
Blade Runner
Batty
Lexx
Bog
Omnibus
Narrator (voice)
Eureka
Claude Maillot Van Horn
Channel Zero
Joseph Peach
Omega Doom
Omega Doom
Bride Flight
Old Frank
Barbarossa
Federico Barbarossa
Gangsterdam
Dolph
Turkish Delight
Erik Vonk
Minotaur
Cyrnan
Fatherland
SS-Sturmbannführer Xavier March
Mysteries
Simonsen aka Johan Frederik Nagel
Sin City
Cardinal Roark
Crossworlds
A.T.
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Nick Randall
Bleeders
Dr. Marlowe
Nostradamus
The Mystic Monk
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
President of the World State Federation
Blast
Leo
Merlin
King Vortingern
Spetters
Gerrit Witkamp
Bone Daddy
Palmer
Heilige Jeanne
Dunois
Samson
Manoah
Blind Fury
Nick Parker
Real Playing Game
Steve Batier
Fifty Shades of Erotica
(archive footage)
Precious Find
Armond Crille
Soldier of Orange
Erik Lanshof
The Wilby Conspiracy
Blane Van Niekirk
Iron Mask
English Ambassador
Alias
Anthony Geiger
Deathline
John Wade
Voyage
Morgan Norvell
Nighthawks
Wulfgar
Spoon
Victor Spoon
Behind the White Glasses
Self
Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal
Copilot MacIntosh
The 10th Kingdom
Huntsman
Surviving the Game
Burns
Fatal Error
Rinus de Gier
Past Midnight
Ben Jordan
Life's a Beach
Jean-Luc
Naked and Lustful
Black Butterflies
Abraham Jonker
Galavant
Kingsley
Tempesta
Van Beuningen
Metal Hurlant Chronicles
Kerm
Admiral
Maarten Tromp
The Sisters Brothers
The Commodore
Ladyhawke
Captain Etienne Navarre
Mentor
Sanford Pollard
Cyrano de Bergerac
de Valvert
Mr. Stitch
Doctor Rue Wakeman
Warrior Angels
Grekkor
The Real History of Science Fiction
Himself
Salem's Lot
Kurt Barlow
The Rite
Istvan Kovak
The Hitcher
John Ryder
Tonight at Noon
Diego
Rond Floris
Self
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Lothos
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
King Zakour
Wedlock
Frank Warren
Magic Flute Diaries
Dr. Richard Nagel
Flesh + Blood
Martin
Split Second
Stone
Dazzle
24 Hours to Live
Frank
Goal II: Living the Dream
Rudi van der Merwe
Flight of the Storks
Sonderman
3
Father (voice)
Porters
Tillman
Mata Hari
Стольбаккен
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Keeler
Simon Magus
Count Albrecht, the Squire
Francesco
Padre di Francesco
The Poseidon Adventure
Bishop August Schmidt
The Room
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Curtiz
Inside the Third Reich
Albert Speer
Dracula 3D
Abraham van Helsing
Unity
Narrator (voice)
Hobo with a Shotgun
Hobo
Chanel Solitaire
Etienne de Balsan
Escape from Sobibor
Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky
The Osterman Weekend
John Tanner
Mirror Wars: Reflection One
Mysterious Man
Zomer Draait Door, De
Wilder
Dr. Sam Dennis Charney
The Blood of Heroes
Sallow
Isip the Warrior
Catholic Priest
Hostile Waters
Cap. Britanov
The Sonata
Richard Marlowe
Moonage Daydream
Self (archive voice)
The Heineken Kidnapping
Alfred Heineken
The 5th Execution
Khant
Clones
Dr. Richards
The Broken Key
Professor Moonlight
Floris
Floris van Rosemondt
Bloodhounds of Broadway
The Brain
A Breed Apart
Jim Malden
Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich
Oskar Halminski
For Queen and Country
Erik Lanshof
The Mill and the Cross
Peter Bruegel
Dead Tone
Det. John Criton
Dracula III: Legacy
Dracula
Moving McAllister
Maxwell McAllister
Francesco
Padre di Francesco
On a Moonlit Night
John Knott
Arctic Blue
Ben Corbett
Katie Tippel
Hugo
Floris von Rosemund
Floris
The Letters
Benjamin Praagh
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
Andreas Kartak
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
Fred Noonan
The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
Paul Marcinkus
Blind Side
Jake Shell
Corbin Nash
Stranger
Partners in Crime
Gene Reardon
Requiem 2019
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
John Thornton
The Best of Max Headroom
Self
Duel In De Diepte
John van der Velde
All for One
Niemeyer
New World Disorder
David Marx
Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
Self
Starfish Tango
Self
Mariette in Ecstasy
Chaplan
The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point
Gen. Frank Lewis
Emperor
John The Constant
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
Self
2047: Sights of Death
Colonel Asimov
Scorcher
US President Nelson
The Edge
Sheriff Emil Abel (Indian Poker)
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
Self
Happiness Runs
Insley
Beyond Justice
Tom Burton
Genderness
Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling
Self
The Law of the Desert
Tom Burton
Flying Virus
Ezekial
Break
Ray
The Hunt for Eagle One
Gen. Frank Lewis
Woman Between Wolf and Dog
Adriaan
Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
Lieutenant Duclari
Cold Blood
Chris
Lying in Wait
Keith Miller
Pastorale 1943
August Schultz
Eating Pattern
Bog
Agent Ranjid Saves the World
Freek van Dyk
Blood of the Innocent
Dr. Lem
The Reverend
The Withstander
The Future
Maciste
The Hitcher: How Do These Movies Get Made?
The Beans of Egypt, Maine
Rueben Bean
The Ruby Ring
Patrick Collins
Dandelions
Rick
The Prince of Motor City
William Hamilton
Tactical Assault
Capitaine John 'Doc' Holiday
Blade Runner White Dragon Cut
Batty
Blond, Blue Eyes
Self
The Cardboard Village
Sacristan
Drawing Home
Carl Rungius
Michelangelo: The Heart and the Stone
Michelangelo
The Revenge of the Dead Indians
Himself
Starting Over
Peter Rossen
Es begann bei Tiffany
Ryder
Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood
Himself
Cancer Rising
Pierre
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
The Worlds of Philip K. Dick
Self - Actor
More Blood, More Heart: The Making of Hobo with a Shotgun
Himself
Never Enough
Sebastian
Portable Life
Antonio
Wax - We Are The X
Aron Mulder
The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
Dutch Schultz(voice)
De Wereld Draait Door
Self
V Graham Norton
Self
The Max Headroom Show
Self