Rutger Hauer
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 23, 1944
- Died
- Jul 19, 2019 (aged 75)
- Place of birth
- Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Credits
- 186
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
Batman Begins
2005Movie
Earle
Blade Runner
1982Movie
Batty
Sin City
2005Movie
Cardinal Roark
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
2017Movie
President of the World State Federation
Smallville
2001TV
Morgan Edge
The Rite
2011Movie
Istvan Kovak
Filmography
Roel Oostra – Theaterman in hart en nieren
2026Movie
Self (archive footage)
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
2021Movie
Self (archive footage)
Break
2020Movie
Ray
Iron Mask
2019Movie
English Ambassador
The Sonata
2018Movie
Richard Marlowe
The Sisters Brothers
2018Movie
The Commodore
Corbin Nash
2018Movie
Stranger
Samson
2018Movie
Manoah
Drawing Home
2017Movie
Carl Rungius
The Broken Key
2017Movie
Professor Moonlight
24 Hours to Live
2017Movie
Frank
Porters
2017TV
Tillman
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
2017Movie
President of the World State Federation
Gangsterdam
2017Movie
Dolph
Mata Hari
2017TV
Стольбаккен
Genderness
2016Movie
Channel Zero
2016TV
Joseph Peach
Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich
2016Movie
Oskar Halminski
WAX: We Are the X
2016Movie
Aron Mulder
The Worlds of Philip K. Dick
2016Movie
Self - Actor
The Last Kingdom
2015TV
Ravn
Behind the White Glasses
2015Movie
Self
Unity
2015Movie
Narrator (voice)
Clones
2015Movie
Dr. Richards
Fifty Shades of Erotica
2015Movie
(archive footage)
Admiral
2015Movie
Maarten Tromp
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
2015Movie
King Zakour
Galavant
2015TV
Kingsley
Francesco
2014Movie
Padre di Francesco
Francesco
2014TV
Padre di Francesco
2047: Sights of Death
2014Movie
Colonel Asimov
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014TV
Self
The Letters
2014Movie
Benjamin Praagh
The Future
2013Movie
Maciste
Real Playing Game
2013Movie
Steve Batier
Flight of the Storks
2013TV
Sonderman
Dracula 3D
2012Movie
Abraham van Helsing
Michelangelo: The Heart and the Stone
2012Movie
Michelangelo
Metal Hurlant Chronicles
2012TV
Kerm
Agent Ranjid Saves the World
2012Movie
Freek van Dyk
The Heineken Kidnapping
2011Movie
Alfred Heineken
The Cardboard Village
2011Movie
Sacristan
Portable Life
2011Movie
Antonio
The Reverend
2011Movie
The Withstander
More Blood, More Heart: The Making of Hobo with a Shotgun
2011Movie
Himself
Hobo with a Shotgun
2011Movie
Hobo
The 5th Execution
2011Movie
Khant
The Mill and the Cross
2011Movie
Peter Bruegel
All for One
2011Movie
Niemeyer
Black Butterflies
2011Movie
Abraham Jonker
The Rite
2011Movie
Istvan Kovak
Spoon
2011Movie
Victor Spoon
Requiem 2019
2011Movie
Happiness Runs
2010Movie
Insley
Life's a Beach
2010Movie
Jean-Luc
Barbarossa
2009Movie
Federico Barbarossa
3
2009Movie
Father (voice)
Dazzle
2009Movie
The Rhapsody
2008Movie
Bride Flight
2008Movie
Old Frank
True Blood
2008TV
Niall Brigant
The Prince of Motor City
2008Movie
William Hamilton
Magic Flute Diaries
2008Movie
Dr. Richard Nagel
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
2007Movie
Self
Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling
2007Movie
Self
Starting Over
2007Movie
Peter Rossen
Moving McAllister
2007Movie
Maxwell McAllister
Zomer Draait Door, De
2007TV
Dead Tone
2007Movie
Det. John Criton
Goal II: Living the Dream
2007Movie
Rudi van der Merwe
Blond, Blue Eyes
2006Movie
Self
The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point
2006Movie
Gen. Frank Lewis
Mentor
2006Movie
Sanford Pollard
Minotaur
2006Movie
Cyrnan
The Hunt for Eagle One
2006Movie
Gen. Frank Lewis
The Poseidon Adventure
2005Movie
Bishop August Schmidt
De Wereld Draait Door
2005TV
Self
Mirror Wars: Reflection One
2005Movie
Mysterious Man
Dracula III: Legacy
2005Movie
Dracula
Batman Begins
2005Movie
Earle
Sin City
2005Movie
Cardinal Roark
Floris
2004Movie
Floris (archive footage from Floris, 1969)
Never Enough
2004Movie
Sebastian
Salem's Lot
2004TV
Kurt Barlow
Tempesta
2004Movie
Van Beuningen
Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
2004Movie
Self
The Hitcher: How Do These Movies Get Made?
2003Movie
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2002Movie
Keeler
Warrior Angels
2002Movie
Grekkor
Scorcher
2002Movie
US President Nelson
V Graham Norton
2002TV
Self
The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
2002Movie
Paul Marcinkus
Flying Virus
2001Movie
Ezekial
The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
2001Movie
Dutch Schultz(voice)
Smallville
2001TV
Morgan Edge
Alias
2001TV
Anthony Geiger
Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal
2001Movie
Copilot MacIntosh
The Room
2001Movie
Lying in Wait
2001Movie
Keith Miller
Wilder
2000Movie
Dr. Sam Dennis Charney
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
2000Movie
Self
The 10th Kingdom
2000TV
Huntsman
Partners in Crime
2000Movie
Gene Reardon
New World Disorder
1999Movie
David Marx
Simon Magus
1999Movie
Count Albrecht, the Squire
Bone Daddy
1998Movie
Palmer
Merlin
1998TV
King Vortingern
Tactical Assault
1998Movie
Capitaine John 'Doc' Holiday
The Ruby Ring
1997Movie
Patrick Collins
Hostile Waters
1997Movie
Cap. Britanov
Deathline
1997Movie
John Wade
Eating Pattern
1997Movie
Bog
Bleeders
1997Movie
Dr. Marlowe
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997Movie
John Thornton
Lexx
1997TV
Bog
Blast
1997Movie
Leo
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
1997Movie
Curtiz
Omega Doom
1996Movie
Omega Doom
Mariette in Ecstasy
1996Movie
Chaplan
Precious Find
1996Movie
Armond Crille
Crossworlds
1996Movie
A.T.
Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood
1996Movie
Himself
Mr. Stitch
1995Movie
Doctor Rue Wakeman
Fatherland
1994Movie
SS-Sturmbannführer Xavier March
The Beans of Egypt, Maine
1994Movie
Rueben Bean
Nostradamus
1994Movie
The Mystic Monk
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
1994Movie
Fred Noonan
Surviving the Game
1994Movie
Burns
Blood of the Innocent
1994Movie
Dr. Lem
Voyage
1993Movie
Morgan Norvell
Blind Side
1993Movie
Jake Shell
Arctic Blue
1993Movie
Ben Corbett
The Revenge of the Dead Indians
1993Movie
Himself
Beyond Justice
1992Movie
Tom Burton
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992Movie
Lothos
Past Midnight
1992Movie
Ben Jordan
Split Second
1992Movie
Stone
Wedlock
1991Movie
Frank Warren
The Law of the Desert
1991TV
Tom Burton
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989Movie
The Brain
The Blood of Heroes
1989Movie
Sallow
On a Moonlit Night
1989Movie
John Knott
The Edge
1989Movie
Sheriff Emil Abel (Indian Poker)
Blind Fury
1989Movie
Nick Parker
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
1988Movie
Andreas Kartak
Escape from Sobibor
1987Movie
Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky
The Best of Max Headroom
1987Movie
Self
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1987Movie
Nick Randall
The Hitcher
1986Movie
John Ryder
Flesh + Blood
1985Movie
Martin
The Max Headroom Show
1985TV
Self
Ladyhawke
1985Movie
Captain Etienne Navarre
A Breed Apart
1984Movie
Jim Malden
The Osterman Weekend
1983Movie
John Tanner
Eureka
1983Movie
Claude Maillot Van Horn
Blade Runner
1982Movie
Batty
Inside the Third Reich
1982TV
Albert Speer
American Playhouse
1982TV
The Brain, Reuben Bean
Chanel Solitaire
1981Movie
Etienne de Balsan
Nighthawks
1981Movie
Wulfgar
Spetters
1980Movie
Gerrit Witkamp
Duel In De Diepte
1979TV
John van der Velde
Fatal Error
1979Movie
Rinus de Gier
Woman Between Wolf and Dog
1979Movie
Adriaan
Es begann bei Tiffany
1979Movie
Ryder
For Queen and Country
1979TV
Erik Lanshof
Mysteries
1978Movie
Simonsen aka Johan Frederik Nagel
Pastorale 1943
1978Movie
August Schultz
Heilige Jeanne
1978Movie
Dunois
Soldier of Orange
1977Movie
Erik Lanshof
Naked and Lustful
1976Movie
Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
1976Movie
Lieutenant Duclari
Cyrano de Bergerac
1975Movie
de Valvert
Cancer Rising
1975Movie
Pierre
Floris von Rosemund
1975TV
Floris
Cold Blood
1975Movie
Chris
Katie Tippel
1975Movie
Hugo
The Wilby Conspiracy
1975Movie
Blane Van Niekirk
Dandelions
1974Movie
Rick
Turkish Delight
1973Movie
Erik Vonk
Rond Floris
1969Movie
Self
Floris
1969TV
Floris van Rosemondt
Omnibus
1967TV
Narrator (voice)
Isip the Warrior
Movie
Catholic Priest
Tonight at Noon
Movie
Diego
Starfish Tango
Movie
Self