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Rutger Hauer
Actor, Producer, Additional Credits
Born January 23, 1944Died July 19, 2019 (75 years)
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.
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.
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| 2020 | Break · as Ray |
| 2019 | Iron Mask · as English Ambassador |
| 2019 | Mariette in Ecstasy · as Chaplan |
| 2018 | The Sonata · as Richard Marlowe |
| 2018 | The Sisters Brothers · as The Commodore |
| 2018 | Kingdom Hearts Timeline (TV Series) · as Master Xehanort (former Kh Iii) |
| 2018 | Corbin Nash · as Stranger |
| 2018 | Samson · as Manoah |
| 2017 | The Broken Key · as Professor Moonlight |
| 2017 | 24 Hours to Live · as Frank |
| 2017 | Porters (TV Series) · as Tillman |
| 2017 | Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets · as President Of The World State Federation |
| 2017 | Gangsterdam · as Dolph |
| 2016 | Drawing Home · as Carl Rungius |
| 2016 | Mata Hari (TV Series) · as Стольбаккен |
| 2016 | Channel Zero (TV Series) · as Joseph Peach |
| 2016 | Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich · as Oskar Halminski |
| 2015 | The Last Kingdom (TV Series) · as Ravn |
| 2015 | Unity · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2015 | Clones · as Dr. Richards |
| 2015 | |
| 2015 | WAX: We Are the X · as Aron Mulder |
| 2015 | The Admiral · as Maarten Tromp |
| 2015 | The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power · as King Zakour |
| 2015 | Galavant (TV Series) · as Kingsley |
| 2014 | Francesco · as Padre Di Francesco |
| 2014 | 2047: Sights of Death · as Colonel Asimov |
| 2014 | The Letters · as Benjamin Praagh |
| 2013 | Real Playing Game · as Steve Batier |
| 2013 | Il Futuro · as Maciste |
| 2013 | North America (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2012 | Flight of the Storks (TV Series) · as Sonderman |
| 2012 | Dracula 3D · as Abraham Van Helsing |
| 2012 | Metal Hurlant Chronicles (TV Series) · as Kerm |
| 2012 | Agent Ranjid rettet die Welt · as Freek Van Dyk |
| 2012 | Bachelor Trip · as Jean-Luc |
| 2011 | The Heineken Kidnapping · as Alfred Heineken |
| 2011 | The Cardboard Village · as Sacristan |
| 2011 | Portable Life · as Antonio |
| 2011 | The Reverend · as The Withstander |
| 2011 | Wilfred (US) (TV Series) · as Dr. Grummons |
| 2011 | Hobo with a Shotgun · as Hobo |
| 2011 | Black Butterflies · as Abraham Jonker |
| 2011 | Klyuch salamandry · as Khant |
| 2011 | The Mill and the Cross · as Peter Bruegel |
| 2011 | All for One · as Niemeyer |
| 2011 | |
| 2010 | Spoon · as Victor Spoon |
| 2010 | Happiness Runs · as Insley |
| 2009 | Sword of War · as Federico Barbarossa |
| 2009 | |
| 2008 | Bride Flight · as Old Frank |
| 2008 | True Blood (TV Series) · as Niall Brigant |
| 2008 | Magic Flute Diaries · as Dr. Richard Nagel |
| 2007 | Starting Over · as Peter Rossen |
| 2007 | Blade Runner: Deleted and Alternate Scenes · as Roy Batty |
| 2007 | Moving McAllister · as Maxwell Mcallister |
| 2007 | |
| 2007 | Goal II: Living the Dream · as Rudi Van Der Merwe |
| 2006 | The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point · as Gen. Frank Lewis |
| 2006 | |
| 2006 | Mentor · as Sanford Pollard |
| 2006 | The Hunt for Eagle One · as Gen. Frank Lewis |
| 2005 | The Poseidon Adventure · as Bishop August Schmidt |
| 2005 | Zerkalnye voyny. Otrazhenie pervoe · as Mysterious Man |
| 2005 | Dracula III: Legacy · as Dracula |
| 2005 | Batman Begins · as Earle |
| 2005 | Sin City · as Cardinal Patrick Henry Roark |
| 2004 | Floris · as Floris Van Rozemond |
| 2004 | Never Enough · as Sebastian |
| 2004 | Salem's Lot (2004) (TV Series) · as Kurt Barlow |
| 2004 | Tempesta · as Van Beuningen |
| 2004 | In the Shadow of the Cobra · as Gallo |
| 2003 | Dracula II: Ascension · as Dracula Iii |
| 2002 | Confessions of a Dangerous Mind · as Keeler |
| 2002 | Warrior Angels · as Grekkor |
| 2002 | Scorcher · as Us President Nelson |
| 2002 | The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair · as Paul Marcinkus |
| 2001 | Flying Virus · as Ezekial |
| 2001 | Alias (TV Series) · as Anthony Geiger |
| 2001 | Smallville (TV Series) · as Morgan Edge |
| 2001 | Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal · as Copilot Macintosh |
| 2001 | Lying in Wait · as Keith Miller |
| 2000 | My VH1 Music Awards · as The General |
| 2000 | |
| 2000 | The 10th Kingdom (TV Series) · as Huntsman |
| 2000 | Partners in Crime · as Gene Reardon |
| 1999 | New World Disorder · as David Marx |
| 1999 | Simon Magus · as Count Albrecht, The Squire |
| 1998 | Bone Daddy · as Palmer |
| 1998 | Merlin (1998) (TV Series) · as King Vortingern |
| 1998 | Tactical Assault · as Capitaine John 'doc' Holiday |
| 1997 | The Ruby Ring · as Patrick Collins |
| 1997 | Hostile Waters · as Cap. Britanov |
| 1997 | Redline · as John Wade |
| 1997 | Hemoglobin · as Dr. Marlowe |
| 1997 | The Call of the Wild · as John Thornton |
| 1997 | |
| 1997 | Knockin' on Heaven's Door · as Curtiz |
| 1996 | |
| 1996 | Omega Doom · as Omega Doom |
| 1996 | Precious Find · as Armond Crille |
| 1996 | Crossworlds · as A.t. |
| 1995 | Mr. Stitch · as Doctor Rue Wakeman |
| 1994 | Fatherland · as Ss-Sturmbannführer Xavier March |
| 1994 | The Beans of Egypt, Maine · as Rueben Bean |
| 1994 | Nostradamus · as The Mystic Monk |
| 1994 | Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight · as Fred Noonan |
| 1994 | Surviving the Game · as Thomas Burns |
| 1994 | Blood of the Innocent · as Dr. Lem |
| 1993 | Voyage · as Morgan Norvell |
| 1993 | Blind Side · as Jake Shell |
| 1993 | Arctic Blue · as Ben Corbett |
| 1992 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer · as Lothos |
| 1992 | Split Second · as Stone |
| 1991 | Beyond Justice · as Tom Burton |
| 1991 | Wedlock · as Frank Warren |
| 1991 | Desert Law · as Tom Burton |
| 1991 | Past Midnight · as Ben Jordan |
| 1989 | Bloodhounds of Broadway · as The Brain |
| 1989 | The Blood of Heroes · as Sallow |
| 1989 | Blind Fury · as Nick Parker |
| 1989 | Crystal or Ash, Fire or Wind, as Long as It's Love · as John Knott |
| 1988 | The Legend of the Holy Drinker · as Andreas Kartak |
| 1987 | Escape from Sobibor · as Alexander 'sasha' Pechersky |
| 1986 | Wanted: Dead or Alive · as Nick Randall |
| 1986 | The Hitcher · as John Ryder |
| 1985 | Screen One (TV Series) · as Capt. Britanov |
| 1985 | Flesh+Blood · as Martin |
| 1985 | |
| 1984 | Terror in the Aisles · as Wulfgar |
| 1984 | A Breed Apart · as Jim Malden |
| 1983 | The Osterman Weekend · as John Tanner |
| 1983 | Eureka · as Claude Maillot Van Horn |
| 1982 | Blade Runner · as Batty |
| 1982 | Inside the Third Reich · as Albert Speer |
| 1981 | Chanel Solitaire · as Etienne De Balsan |
| 1981 | Nighthawks · as Wulfgar |
| 1980 | Spetters · as Gerrit Witkamp |
| 1979 | Duel in de Diepte (TV Series) · as John Van Der Velde |
| 1979 | Grijpstra & De Gier · as Rinus De Gier |
| 1979 | Woman Between Wolf and Dog · as Adriaan |
| 1979 | Es begann bei Tiffany · as Ryder |
| 1979 | Voor koningin en vaderland (TV Series) · as Erik Lanshof |
| 1978 | Mysteries · as Johan Nagel |
| 1978 | Pastorale 1943 · as August Schultz |
| 1977 | Soldier of Orange · as Erik Lanshof |
| 1976 | Max Havelaar · as Duclari |
| 1975 | The Year of the Cancer · as Pierre |
| 1975 | Floris von Rosemund (TV Series) · as Floris |
| 1975 | Cold Blood · as Cris |
| 1975 | Katie Tippel · as Hugo |
| 1975 | The Wilby Conspiracy · as Blane Van Niekirk |
| 1974 | Hard to Remember · as Rick |
| 1973 | Turkish Delight · as Eric Vonk |
| 1972 | The Pathfinders (TV Series) · as Pieter Van Pearsen |
| 1969 | Floris (TV Series) · as Floris |
| 1968 | Monsieur Hawarden · as Cast |
Barbarossa (TV Series) · as Federico Barbarossa |