Rutger Oelsen Hauer is a Dutch film actor. He is 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 is 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 discusses many of his movie roles. Proceeds of the book go to Hauer's Starfish Foundation.
Movie | Emperor | John The Constant | 2022-08-16 |
Movie | Break | Ray | 2020-04-20 |
Movie | Iron Mask | English Ambassador | 2019-08-16 |
Movie | Samson | Manoah | 2018-02-16 |
Movie | Corbin Nash | Stranger | 2018-04-20 |
Movie | The Sisters Brothers | The Commodore | 2018-09-19 |
Movie | The Sonata | Richard Marlowe | 2018-11-15 |
Movie | Gangsterdam | Dolph | 2017-03-29 |
Movie | Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets | President of the World State Federation | 2017-07-20 |
Movie | 24 Hours to Live | Frank | 2017-10-26 |
Movie | The Broken Key | Professor Moonlight | 2017-11-16 |
Movie | The Worlds of Philip K. Dick | Self - Actor | 2016-03-02 |
Movie | Wax - We Are The X | Aron Mulder | 2016-03-31 |
Series | Channel Zero | Joseph Peach | 2016-10-11 |
Movie | Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the Fourth Reich | Oskar Halminski | 2016-10-03 |
Movie | The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power | King Zakour | 2015-01-09 |
Movie | Admiral | Maarten Tromp | 2015-01-29 |
Movie | Unity | Narrator (voice) | 2015-08-12 |
Movie | Clones | Dr. Richards | 2015-07-04 |
Movie | Behind the White Glasses | Self | 2015-09-21 |
Movie | The Letters | Benjamin Praagh | 2014-02-23 |
Movie | Francesco | Padre di Francesco | 2014-12-08 |
Movie | 2047: Sights of Death | Colonel Asimov | 2014-06-13 |
Movie | Flight of the Storks | Sonderman | 2013-01-21 |
Movie | Real Playing Game | Steve Batier | 2013-08-28 |
Movie | The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy | Self (archive footage) | 2013-09-24 |
Movie | The Future | Maciste | 2013-09-06 |
Movie | Agent Ranjid Saves the World | Freek van Dyk | 2012-10-18 |
Movie | Dracula 3D | Abraham van Helsing | 2012-11-09 |
Movie | The Mill and the Cross | Peter Bruegel | 2011-03-18 |
Movie | All for One | Niemeyer | 2011-02-10 |
Movie | The Rite | Istvan Kovak | 2011-01-28 |
Movie | The 5th Execution | Khant | 2011-03-24 |
Movie | The Reverend | The Withstander | 2011-08-03 |
Movie | The Heineken Kidnapping | Alfred Heineken | 2011-10-27 |
Movie | The Cardboard Village | Sacristan | 2011-10-07 |
Movie | Portable Life | Antonio | 2011-09-01 |
Movie | Life's a Beach | Jean-Luc | 2010-01-01 |
Movie | Happiness Runs | Insley | 2010-05-14 |
Movie | Dazzle | 2009-01-01 | |
Movie | Barbarossa | Federico Barbarossa | 2009-10-09 |
Movie | Bride Flight | Old Frank | 2008-10-15 |
Movie | Goal II: Living the Dream | Rudi van der Merwe | 2007-02-09 |
Movie | Dead Tone | Det. John Criton | 2007-05-16 |
Movie | Starting Over | Peter Rossen | 2007-11-10 |
Movie | Moving McAllister | Maxwell McAllister | 2007-09-13 |
Movie | Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner | Self | 2007-12-18 |
Movie | Mentor | Sanford Pollard | 2006-04-28 |
Movie | The Hunt for Eagle One | Gen. Frank Lewis | 2006-01-17 |
Movie | The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point | Gen. Frank Lewis | 2006-06-27 |
Movie | Sin City | Cardinal Patrick Henry Roark | 2005-04-01 |
Movie | Batman Begins | Earle | 2005-06-10 |
Movie | Mirror Wars: Reflection One | Mysterious Man | 2005-09-01 |
Movie | The Poseidon Adventure | Bishop August Schmidt | 2005-11-20 |
Movie | Dracula III: Legacy | Dracula | 2005-07-12 |
Movie | Tempesta | Van Beuningen | 2004-05-10 |
Movie | Salem's Lot | Kurt Barlow | 2004-06-20 |
Movie | Scorcher | US President Nelson | 2002-10-04 |
Movie | Warrior Angels | Grekkor | 2002-10-11 |
Movie | Confessions of a Dangerous Mind | Keeler | 2002-12-31 |
Movie | Lying in Wait | Keith Miller | 2001-03-15 |
Movie | Flying Virus | Ezekial | 2001-12-31 |
Movie | Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal | Copilot MacIntosh | 2001-05-13 |
Movie | The 10th Kingdom | Huntsman | 2000-02-27 |
Movie | Partners in Crime | Gene Reardon | 2000-01-07 |
Movie | On the Edge of 'Blade Runner' | Self | 2000-07-15 |
Movie | Wilder | Dr. Sam Dennis Charney | 2000-11-01 |
Movie | Simon Magus | Count Albrecht, the Squire | 1999-02-17 |
Movie | New World Disorder | David Marx | 1999-12-03 |
Movie | Tactical Assault | Capitaine John 'Doc' Holiday | 1998-04-07 |
Movie | Bone Daddy | Palmer | 1998-07-19 |
Series | Merlin | King Vortingern | 1998-04-26 |
Movie | Bleeders | Dr. Marlowe | 1997-07-31 |
Movie | Blast | Leo | 1997-03-13 |
Movie | Deathline | John Wade | 1997-09-26 |
Movie | Lexx 1.3: Eating Pattern | Bog | 1997-09-04 |
Movie | The Ruby Ring | Patrick Collins | 1997-11-26 |
Movie | Crossworlds | A.T. | 1996-02-14 |
Movie | Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood | Himself | 1996-01-08 |
Movie | Mariette in Ecstasy | Chaplan | 1996-07-04 |
Movie | Omega Doom | Omega Doom | 1996-10-21 |
Movie | Precious Find | Armond Crille | 1996-06-26 |
Movie | Mr. Stitch | Doctor Rue Wakeman | 1995-11-20 |
Movie | Surviving the Game | Thomas Burns | 1994-04-15 |
Movie | Blood of the Innocent | Dr. Lem | 1994-01-01 |
Movie | Fatherland | SS-Sturmbannführer Xavier March | 1994-11-26 |
Movie | Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight | Fred Noonan | 1994-06-12 |
Movie | Nostradamus | The Mystic Monk | 1994-08-18 |
Movie | The Beans of Egypt, Maine | Rueben Bean | 1994-11-23 |
Movie | The Revenge of the Dead Indians | Himself | 1993-01-01 |
Movie | Blind Side | Jake Shell | 1993-01-30 |
Movie | Voyage | Morgan Norvell | 1993-06-01 |
Movie | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Lothos | 1992-07-24 |
Movie | Split Second | Stone | 1992-05-01 |
Movie | Beyond Justice | Tom Burton | 1992-12-02 |
Movie | Desert Law | Tom Burton | 1991-03-19 |
Movie | Wedlock | Frank Warren | 1991-05-10 |
Movie | Blind Fury | Nick Parker | 1989-08-17 |
Movie | On a Moonlit Night | John Knott | 1989-09-05 |
Movie | Bloodhounds of Broadway | The Brain | 1989-11-03 |
Movie | The Blood of Heroes | Sallow | 1989-10-19 |
Movie | The Legend of the Holy Drinker | Andreas Kartak | 1988-09-02 |
Movie | Wanted: Dead or Alive | Nick Randall | 1987-01-16 |
Movie | Escape from Sobibor | Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky | 1987-04-12 |
Movie | The Hitcher | John Ryder | 1986-01-17 |
Movie | Ladyhawke | Captain Etienne Navarre | 1985-03-27 |
Movie | Flesh + Blood | Martin | 1985-08-30 |
Movie | A Breed Apart | Jim Malden | 1984-06-01 |
Movie | Terror in the Aisles | Wulfgar (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1984-10-26 |
Movie | Eureka | Claude Maillot Van Horn | 1983-05-01 |
Movie | The Osterman Weekend | John Tanner | 1983-10-14 |
Movie | Inside the Third Reich | Albert Speer | 1982-05-09 |
Movie | Blade Runner | Batty | 1982-06-25 |
Movie | Chanel Solitaire | Etienne de Balsan | 1981-01-01 |
Movie | Nighthawks | Wulfgar | 1981-03-17 |
Movie | Spetters | Gerrit Witkamp | 1980-02-28 |
Movie | Voor koningin en vaderland | 1979-01-13 | |
Movie | Es begann bei Tiffany | Ryder | 1979-04-30 |
Movie | Fatal Error | Rinus de Gier | 1979-09-20 |
Movie | Woman Between Wolf and Dog | 1979-06-04 | |
Movie | Pastorale 1943 | August Schultz | 1978-04-20 |
Movie | Mysteries | Johan Nagel | 1978-09-07 |
Movie | Soldier of Orange | Erik Lanshof | 1977-09-22 |
Movie | Max Havelaar | Duclari | 1976-09-09 |
Movie | The Wilby Conspiracy | Blane Van Niekirk | 1975-02-01 |
Series | Floris von Rosemund | Floris | 1975-08-09 |
Movie | Katie Tippel | Hugo | 1975-03-06 |
Movie | Dandelions | Rick | 1974-10-11 |
Movie | Turkish Delight | Eric Vonk | 1973-02-22 |
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