A
🔍
Rutger Hauer

Rutger Hauer

Known for ActingBorn 1944-01-23Died 2019-07-19Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands
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.Read more

Movies & web series

Never Enough
10.0
View details →

Never Enough

2004 · Movie

Rond Floris10.0
View details →

Rond Floris

1969 · Movie

The Last Kingdom8.3
View details →

The Last Kingdom

2015 · Series

Mentor8.3
View details →

Mentor

2006 · Movie

Smallville8.2
View details →

Smallville

2001 · Series

38.0
View details →

3

2009 · Movie

Mariette in Ecstasy
8.0
View details →

Mariette in Ecstasy

1996 · Movie

The Law of the Desert8.0
View details →

The Law of the Desert

1991 · Series

Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner7.8
View details →

Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner

2007 · Movie

Porters7.7
View details →

Porters

2017 · Series

Inside the Third Reich8.0
View details →

Inside the Third Reich

1982 · Series

Batman Begins7.7
View details →

Batman Begins

2005 · Movie

Blade Runner7.9
View details →

Blade Runner

1982 · Movie

Floris von Rosemund8.0
View details →

Floris von Rosemund

1975 · Series

Moonage Daydream7.5
View details →

Moonage Daydream

2022 · Movie

On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'7.7
View details →

On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'

2000 · Movie

True Blood7.6
View details →

True Blood

2008 · Series

Floris8.0
View details →

Floris

1969 · Series

Knockin' on Heaven's Door7.7
View details →

Knockin' on Heaven's Door

1997 · Movie

Unity7.5
View details →

Unity

2015 · Movie

The 10th Kingdom7.6
View details →

The 10th Kingdom

2000 · Series

The Hitcher: How Do These Movies Get Made?7.5
View details →

The Hitcher: How Do These Movies Get Made?

2003 · Movie

Sin City7.5
View details →

Sin City

2005 · Movie

Galavant7.3
View details →

Galavant

2015 · Series

Simon Magus7.4
View details →

Simon Magus

1999 · Movie

Wax - We Are The X7.2
View details →

Wax - We Are The X

2016 · Movie

The Max Headroom Show7.5
View details →

The Max Headroom Show

1985 · Series

The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon7.3
View details →

The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon

1997 · Movie

Channel Zero7.1
View details →

Channel Zero

2016 · Series

The Room7.2
View details →

The Room

2001 · Movie

Fifty Shades of Erotica7.0
View details →

Fifty Shades of Erotica

2015 · Movie

Francesco7.0
View details →

Francesco

2014 · Movie

The Real History of Science Fiction7.0
View details →

The Real History of Science Fiction

2014 · Series

Escape from Sobibor7.2
View details →

Escape from Sobibor

1987 · Movie

Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'7.0
View details →

Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'

2004 · Movie

The Sisters Brothers6.8
View details →

The Sisters Brothers

2018 · Movie

The Last Words of Dutch Schultz7.0
View details →

The Last Words of Dutch Schultz

2001 · Movie

Lexx7.0
View details →

Lexx

1997 · Series

Eating Pattern7.0
View details →

Eating Pattern

1997 · Movie

The Revenge of the Dead Indians7.0
View details →

The Revenge of the Dead Indians

1993 · Movie

Merlin6.9
View details →

Merlin

1998 · Series

Omnibus7.2
View details →

Omnibus

1967 · Series

Ladyhawke7.0
View details →

Ladyhawke

1985 · Movie

Soldier of Orange7.1
View details →

Soldier of Orange

1977 · Movie

The Hitcher7.0
View details →

The Hitcher

1986 · Movie

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets6.6
View details →

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

2017 · Movie

Alias6.8
View details →

Alias

2001 · Series

Duel In De Diepte7.0
View details →

Duel In De Diepte

1979 · Series