Rutger Hauer
Acting • Born 1944-01-23 – Died 2019-07-19
Biography
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.
Filmography
185 credits
Blade Runner
Movie • 1982
Batty
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Movie • 1997
Curtiz
Sin City
Movie • 2005
Cardinal Roark
Batman Begins
Movie • 2005
Earle
Ladyhawke
Movie • 1985
Captain Etienne Navarre
Soldier of Orange
Movie • 1977
Erik Lanshof
Hostile Waters
Movie • 1997
Cap. Britanov
Wedlock
Movie • 1991
Frank Warren
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Movie • 1992
Lothos
The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point
Movie • 2006
Gen. Frank Lewis
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Movie • 2002
Keeler
Turkish Delight
Movie • 1973
Erik Vonk
Happiness Runs
Movie • 2010
Insley
Fatherland
Movie • 1994
SS-Sturmbannführer Xavier March
Scorcher
Movie • 2002
US President Nelson
The Blood of Heroes
Movie • 1989
Sallow
Nighthawks
Movie • 1981
Wulfgar
Isip the Warrior
Movie
Catholic Priest
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Movie • 1987
Nick Randall
The Wilby Conspiracy
Movie • 1975
Blane Van Niekirk
Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling
Movie • 2007
Self
Tonight at Noon
Movie
Diego
Escape from Sobibor
Movie • 1987
Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky
The Osterman Weekend
Movie • 1983
John Tanner
Flesh + Blood
Movie • 1985
Martin
The Hitcher
Movie • 1986
John Ryder
Split Second
Movie • 1992
Stone
Goal II: Living the Dream
Movie • 2007
Rudi van der Merwe
Spetters
Movie • 1980
Gerrit Witkamp
The Poseidon Adventure
Movie • 2005
Bishop August Schmidt
New World Disorder
Movie • 1999
David Marx
Katie Tippel
Movie • 1975
Hugo
Tactical Assault
Movie • 1998
Capitaine John 'Doc' Holiday
Blind Side
Movie • 1993
Jake Shell
Wilder
Movie • 2000
Dr. Sam Dennis Charney
Dead Tone
Movie • 2007
Det. John Criton
The 5th Execution
Movie • 2011
Khant
Precious Find
Movie • 1996
Armond Crille
Eureka
Movie • 1983
Claude Maillot Van Horn
On a Moonlit Night
Movie • 1989
John Knott
Barbarossa
Movie • 2009
Federico Barbarossa
Deathline
Movie • 1997
John Wade
Portable Life
Movie • 2011
Antonio
Omega Doom
Movie • 1996
Omega Doom
Cold Blood
Movie • 1975
Chris
Crossworlds
Movie • 1996
A.T.
Surviving the Game
Movie • 1994
Burns
Heilige Jeanne
Movie • 1978
Dunois
Hobo with a Shotgun
Movie • 2011
Hobo
The Rite
Movie • 2011
Istvan Kovak
Moving McAllister
Movie • 2007
Maxwell McAllister
Past Midnight
Movie • 1992
Ben Jordan
Bride Flight
Movie • 2008
Old Frank
Nostradamus
Movie • 1994
The Mystic Monk
The Hunt for Eagle One
Movie • 2006
Gen. Frank Lewis
Minotaur
Movie • 2006
Cyrnan
Blind Fury
Movie • 1989
Nick Parker
Pastorale 1943
Movie • 1978
August Schultz
Black Butterflies
Movie • 2011
Abraham Jonker
Bloodhounds of Broadway
Movie • 1989
The Brain
Flying Virus
Movie • 2001
Ezekial
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
Movie • 1988
Andreas Kartak
Chanel Solitaire
Movie • 1981
Etienne de Balsan
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
Movie • 1997
John Thornton
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
Movie • 2007
Self
The Mill and the Cross
Movie • 2011
Peter Bruegel
The Heineken Kidnapping
Movie • 2011
Alfred Heineken
Tempesta
Movie • 2004
Van Beuningen
Arctic Blue
Movie • 1993
Ben Corbett
Bleeders
Movie • 1997
Dr. Marlowe
Fatal Error
Movie • 1979
Rinus de Gier
A Breed Apart
Movie • 1984
Jim Malden
The Cardboard Village
Movie • 2011
Sacristan
Cyrano de Bergerac
Movie • 1975
de Valvert
Lying in Wait
Movie • 2001
Keith Miller
Magic Flute Diaries
Movie • 2008
Dr. Richard Nagel
The Reverend
Movie • 2011
The Withstander
Beyond Justice
Movie • 1992
Tom Burton
Life's a Beach
Movie • 2010
Jean-Luc
The Future
Movie • 2013
Maciste
Dracula 3D
Movie • 2012
Abraham van Helsing
Voyage
Movie • 1993
Morgan Norvell
Agent Ranjid Saves the World
Movie • 2012
Freek van Dyk
Partners in Crime
Movie • 2000
Gene Reardon
Mysteries
Movie • 1978
Simonsen aka Johan Frederik Nagel
More Blood, More Heart: The Making of Hobo with a Shotgun
Movie • 2011
Himself
Real Playing Game
Movie • 2013
Steve Batier
Starting Over
Movie • 2007
Peter Rossen
Woman Between Wolf and Dog
Movie • 1979
Adriaan
Never Enough
Movie • 2004
Sebastian
The Letters
Movie • 2014
Benjamin Praagh
Drawing Home
Movie • 2017
Carl Rungius
The Beans of Egypt, Maine
Movie • 1994
Rueben Bean
Blast
Movie • 1997
Leo
Eating Pattern
Movie • 1997
Bog
Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood
Movie • 1996
Himself
The Revenge of the Dead Indians
Movie • 1993
Himself
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
Movie • 1994
Fred Noonan
The Prince of Motor City
Movie • 2008
William Hamilton
Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal
Movie • 2001
Copilot MacIntosh
2047: Sights of Death
Movie • 2014
Colonel Asimov
Warrior Angels
Movie • 2002
Grekkor
Mirror Wars: Reflection One
Movie • 2005
Mysterious Man
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
Movie • 2000
Self
Spoon
Movie • 2011
Victor Spoon
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
Movie • 2015
King Zakour
Cancer Rising
Movie • 1975
Pierre
Admiral
Movie • 2015
Maarten Tromp
Rond Floris
Movie • 1969
Self
Requiem 2019
Movie • 2011
Blond, Blue Eyes
Movie • 2006
Self
Starfish Tango
Movie
Self
Es begann bei Tiffany
Movie • 1979
Ryder
The Worlds of Philip K. Dick
Movie • 2016
Self - Actor
3
Movie • 2009
Father (voice)
The Ruby Ring
Movie • 1997
Patrick Collins
Unity
Movie • 2015
Narrator (voice)
Behind the White Glasses
Movie • 2015
Self
Dazzle
Movie • 2009
Francesco
Movie • 2014
Padre di Francesco
Wax - We Are The X
Movie • 2016
Aron Mulder
Mr. Stitch
Movie • 1995
Doctor Rue Wakeman
Genderness
Movie • 2016
Gangsterdam
Movie • 2017
Dolph
Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich
Movie • 2016
Oskar Halminski
Bone Daddy
Movie • 1998
Palmer
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Movie • 2017
President of the World State Federation
Iron Mask
Movie • 2019
English Ambassador
Dandelions
Movie • 1974
Rick
Corbin Nash
Movie • 2018
Stranger
Clones
Movie • 2015
Dr. Richards
Mentor
Movie • 2006
Sanford Pollard
Dracula III: Legacy
Movie • 2005
Dracula
Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
Movie • 1976
Lieutenant Duclari
Naked and Lustful
Movie • 1976
Blood of the Innocent
Movie • 1994
Dr. Lem
The Broken Key
Movie • 2017
Professor Moonlight
Samson
Movie • 2018
Manoah
The Sonata
Movie • 2018
Richard Marlowe
24 Hours to Live
Movie • 2017
Frank
Mariette in Ecstasy
Movie • 1996
Chaplan
The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
Movie • 2002
Paul Marcinkus
The Sisters Brothers
Movie • 2018
The Commodore
Fifty Shades of Erotica
Movie • 2015
(archive footage)
Simon Magus
Movie • 1999
Count Albrecht, the Squire
The Hitcher: How Do These Movies Get Made?
Movie • 2003
The Room
Movie • 2001
Break
Movie • 2020
Ray
The Edge
Movie • 1989
Sheriff Emil Abel (Indian Poker)
Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
Movie • 2004
Self
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
The Best of Max Headroom
Movie • 1987
Self
Michelangelo: The Heart and the Stone
Movie • 2012
Michelangelo
Emperor
Movie • 2026
John The Constant
All for One
Movie • 2011
Niemeyer
The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
Movie • 2001
Dutch Schultz(voice)
Moonage Daydream
Movie • 2022
Self (archive voice)
The Rhapsody
Movie • 2008
Floris
TV • 1969
Floris van Rosemondt
Lexx
TV • 1997
Bog
Alias
TV • 2001
Anthony Geiger
Smallville
TV • 2001
Morgan Edge
V Graham Norton
TV • 2002
Self
De Wereld Draait Door
TV • 2005
Self
Zomer Draait Door, De
TV • 2007
Merlin
TV • 1998
King Vortingern
True Blood
TV • 2008
Niall Brigant
Metal Hurlant Chronicles
TV • 2012
Kerm
Galavant
TV • 2015
Kingsley
Floris von Rosemund
TV • 1975
Floris
Duel In De Diepte
TV • 1979
John van der Velde
Flight of the Storks
TV • 2013
Sonderman
Channel Zero
TV • 2016
Joseph Peach
The 10th Kingdom
TV • 2000
Huntsman
Salem's Lot
TV • 2004
Kurt Barlow
Mata Hari
TV • 2017
Стольбаккен
Porters
TV • 2017
Tillman
The Real History of Science Fiction
TV • 2014
Himself
For Queen and Country
TV • 1979
Erik Lanshof
The Max Headroom Show
TV • 1985
Self
Francesco
TV • 2014
Padre di Francesco
Omnibus
TV • 1967
Narrator (voice)
The Law of the Desert
TV • 1991
Tom Burton
Inside the Third Reich
TV • 1982
Albert Speer
The Last Kingdom
TV • 2015
Ravn