Rutger Hauer
Acting
🎂 1944-01-23
Rutger Oelsen Hauer 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.
Cast credits(186)
Self
2002
Morgan Edge
2001
Ravn
2015
Self
2005
Narrator (voice)
1967
Niall Brigant
2008
Bog
1997
Huntsman
2000
King Vortingern
1998
Joseph Peach
2016
Himself
2014
Kerm
2012
2007
Batty
1982
Self
1985
Kurt Barlow
2004
Tillman
2017
Стольбаккен
2017
Earle
2005
Sonderman
2013
Floris
1969
John van der Velde
1979
Floris
1975
Anthony Geiger
2001
President of the World State Federation
2017
Cardinal Patrick Henry Roark
2005
Erik Lanshof
1979
Kingsley
2015
Lothos
1992
English Ambassador
2019
Johan Nagel
1978
Captain Etienne Navarre
1985
The Withstander
2011
Istvan Kovak
2011
The Commodore
2018
John Ryder
1986
Keeler
2002
Maarten Tromp
2015
Keith Miller
2001
Manoah
2018
Martin
1985
King Zakour
2015
Frank
2017
Nick Parker
1989
The Mystic Monk
1994
Wulfgar
1981
Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky
1987
Rudi van der Merwe
2007
Stone
1992
Thomas Burns
1994
Cyrnan
2006
Frank Warren
1991
Curtiz
1997
Eric Vonk
1973
Bishop August Schmidt
2005
Doctor Rue Wakeman
1995
John Tanner
1983
Hobo
2011
Dr. Marlowe
1997
Det. John Criton
2007
Oskar Halminski
2016
Abraham van Helsing
2012
Mysterious Man
2005
Nick Randall
1987
Narrator (voice)
2015
Khant
2011
Benjamin Praagh
2014
SS-Sturmbannführer Xavier March
1994
Gerrit Witkamp
1980
Dracula
2005
Self (archive footage)
2013
Ezekial
2001
Erik Lanshof
1977
2015
Sallow
1989
Colonel Asimov
2014
Claude Maillot Van Horn
1983
Copilot MacIntosh
2001
Alfred Heineken
2011
Cap. Britanov
1997
John Knott
1989
John Thornton
1997
Old Frank
2008
Padre di Francesco
2014
Federico Barbarossa
2009
Gen. Frank Lewis
2006
Abraham Jonker
2011
Self
2007
A.T.
1996
Jim Malden
1984
Dolph
2017
Sheriff Emil Abel
1989
Richard Marlowe
2018
Blane Van Niekirk
1975
US President Nelson
2002
Leo
1997
Carl Rungius
2017
Stranger
2018
Fred Noonan
1994
Omega Doom
1996
Gen. Frank Lewis
2006
Maxwell McAllister
2007
Self (archive footage)
2024
Self
2000
Ben Corbett
1993
Diego
Rueben Bean
1994
The Brain
1989
Palmer
1998
Tom Burton
1992
Maciste
2013
Ben Jordan
1992
Albert Speer
1982
Hugo
1975
Dr. Sam Dennis Charney
2000
Insley
2010
Roi Vortigern
1998
Ray
2020
Sanford Pollard
2006
Professor Moonlight
2017
Niemeyer
2011
Jake Shell
1993
Andreas Kartak
1988
Self (archive footage)
2017
Peter Bruegel
2011
David Marx
1999
Peter Rossen
2007
Cris
1975
Paul Marcinkus
2002
Himself
1993
Steve Batier
2013
Etienne de Balsan
1981
Capitaine John 'Doc' Holiday
1998
Armond Crille
1996
John Wade
1997
Patrick Collins
1997
Sacristan
2011
2003
Himself (archive footage)
2021
Rinus de Gier
1979
Van Beuningen
2004
Catholic Priest
Count Albrecht, the Squire
1999
1976
Gene Reardon
2000
Padre di Francesco
2014
Victor Spoon
2011
Morgan Norvell
1993
Self
2015
Self
2007
Jean-Luc
2010
Grekkor
2002
Freek van Dyk
2012
Adriaan
1979
Rick
1974
Tom Burton
1991
Father (voice)
2009
Dr. Richard Nagel
2008
Dr. Lem
1994
Duclari
1976
William Hamilton
2008
Dr. Richards
2015
Chaplan
1996
Self
1987
August Schultz
1978
Self
2004
Michelangelo
2012
Dunois
1978
Aron Mulder
2016
Antonio
2011
Sebastian
2004
Self - Actor
2016
Ryder
1979
2009
Bog
1997
Himself
1996
2016
Self
1969
Himself
2011
de Valvert
1975
2001
2011
Pierre
1975
Self
2006
John The Constant
2026
Self