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Rutger Hauer
Actor
Died July 19, 2019 (75 years)
Rutger Oelsen Hauer (23 January 1944 - 19 July 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
| 2020 | Break · as Ray |
| 2019 | Iron Mask · as English Ambassador |
| 2018 | Corbin Nash · as Stranger |
| 2018 | The Sisters Brothers · as The Commodore |
| 2018 | Samson · as Manoah |
| 2018 | The Sonata · as Richard Marlowe |
| 2017 | Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets · as President of the World State Federation |
| 2017 | 24 Hours to Live · as Frank |
| 2017 | The Broken Key · as Professor Moonlight |
| 2017 | Porters (TV Series) · as Tillman |
| 2017 | Gangsterdam · as Dolph |
| 2016 | Drawing Home · as Carl Rungius |
| 2016 | Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich · as Oskar Halminski |
| 2016 | Channel Zero (TV Series) · as Joseph Peach |
| 2016 | Mata Hari (TV Series) · as Стольбаккен |
| 2015 | WAX: We Are the X · as Aron Mulder |
| 2015 | Behind the White Glasses · as Unknown |
| 2015 | Clones · as Dr. Richards |
| 2015 | Fifty Shades of Erotica · as Unknown |
| 2015 | The Last Kingdom (TV Series) · as Ravn |
| 2015 | Galavant (TV Series) · as Kingsley |
| 2015 | The Admiral · as Maarten Tromp |
| 2015 | The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power · as King Zakour |
| 2014 | The Letters · as Benjamin Praagh |
| 2014 | 2047: Sights of Death · as Colonel Asimov |
| 2014 | Francesco · as Padre di Francesco |
| 2013 | Il Futuro · as Maciste |
| 2013 | Real Playing Game · as Steve Batier |
| 2013 | North America (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2012 | Bachelor Trip · as Jean-Luc |
| 2012 | Dracula 3D · as Abraham van Helsing |
| 2012 | Agent Ranjid rettet die Welt · as Freek van Dyk |
| 2012 | Metal Hurlant Chronicles (TV Series) · as Kern |
| 2011 | The Rite · as Istvan Kovak |
| 2011 | Klyuch salamandry · as Khant |
| 2011 | Black Butterflies · as Abraham Jonker |
| 2011 | All for One · as Niemeyer |
| 2011 | The Heineken Kidnapping · as Alfred Heineken |
| 2011 | The Cardboard Village · as Unknown |
| 2011 | The Reverend · as The Withstander |
| 2011 | Portable Life · as Antonio |
| 2011 | Spoon · as Victor Spoon |
| 2011 | Wilfred (US) (TV Series) · as Dr. Grummons |
| 2011 | Hobo with a Shotgun · as Hobo |
| 2011 | The Mill and the Cross · as Peter Bruegel |
| 2010 | Happiness Runs · as Insley |
| 2009 | Sword of War · as Federico Barbarossa |
| 2009 | Mariette in Ecstasy · as Chaplan |
| 2008 | Bride Flight · as Old Frank |
| 2008 | True Blood (TV Series) · as Niall Brigan |
| 2007 | Goal II: Living the Dream · as Rudi van der Merwe |
| 2007 | Moving McAllister · as Maxwell McAllister |
| 2007 | Starting Over · as Peter Rossen |
| 2007 | Dead Tone · as Det. John Criton |
| 2006 | The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point · as Gen. Frank Lewis |
| 2006 | Minotaur · as Cyrnan |
| 2006 | The Hunt for Eagle One · as Gen. Frank Lewis |
| 2006 | Mentor · as Sanford Pollard |
| 2005 | Sin City · as Cardinal Patrick Henry Roark |
| 2005 | Dracula III: Legacy · as Dracula |
| 2005 | Zerkalnye voyny. Otrazhenie pervoe · as Mysterious Man |
| 2005 | Batman Begins · as William Earle |
| 2005 | The Poseidon Adventure · as Bishop August Schmidt |
| 2005 | De Wereld Draait Door (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 2004 | Floris · as Floris van Rozemond |
| 2004 | Tempesta · as Van Beuningen |
| 2004 | Never Enough · as Sebastian |
| 2004 | Salem's Lot (2004) (TV Series) · as Kurt Barlow |
| 2003 | Dracula II: Ascension · as Dracula III |
| 2002 | Confessions of a Dangerous Mind · as Keeler |
| 2002 | Scorcher · as US President Nelson |
| 2002 | The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair · as Paul Marcinkus |
| 2002 | Warrior Angels · as Grekkor |
| 2001 | Flying Virus · as Ezekial |
| 2001 | Lying in Wait · as Keith Miller |
| 2001 | Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal · as Copilot MacIntosh |
| 2001 | Smallville (TV Series) · as Morgan Edge |
| 2001 | Alias (TV Series) · as Anthony Geiger |
| 2000 | Slow Burn · as Dr. Sam Dennis Charney |
| 2000 | Partners in Crime · as Gene Reardon |
| 2000 | The 10th Kingdom (TV Series) · as Huntsman |
| 1999 | New World Disorder · as David Marx |
| 1999 | Simon Magus · as Count Albrecht, the Squire |
| 1998 | Tactical Assault · as Capitaine John 'Doc' Holiday |
| 1998 | Bone Daddy · as Palmer |
| 1998 | Merlin (TV Series) · as King Vortingern |
| 1997 | Knockin' on Heaven's Door · as Curtiz |
| 1997 | Hostile Waters · as Cap. Britanov |
| 1997 | The Call of the Wild · as John Thornton |
| 1997 | Bleeders · as Dr. Marlowe |
| 1997 | Redline · as John Wade |
| 1997 | Blast · as Leo |
| 1997 | The Ruby Ring · as Patrick Collins |
| 1996 | Omega Doom · as Omega Doom |
| 1996 | Crossworlds · as A.T. |
| 1996 | Precious Find · as Armond Crille |
| 1996 | Lexx (TV Series) · as Bog |
| 1995 | Mr. Stitch · as Doctor Rue Wakeman |
| 1994 | Fatherland · as SS-Sturmbannführer Xavier March |
| 1994 | Surviving the Game · as Thomas Burns |
| 1994 | Blood of the Innocent · as Dr. Lem |
| 1994 | The Beans of Egypt, Maine · as Rueben Bean |
| 1994 | Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight · as Fred Noonan |
| 1994 | Nostradamus · as The Mystic Monk |
| 1993 | Arctic Blue · as Ben Corbett |
| 1993 | Blind Side · as Jake Shell |
| 1993 | Voyage · as Morgan Norvell |
| 1992 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer · as Lothos |
| 1992 | Split Second · as Harley Stone |
| 1991 | Wedlock · as Frank Warren |
| 1991 | Past Midnight · as Ben Jordan |
| 1991 | Beyond Justice · as Tom Burton |
| 1989 | Blind Fury · as Nick Parker |
| 1989 | The Blood of Heroes · as Sallow |
| 1989 | Bloodhounds of Broadway · as The Brain |
| 1988 | The Legend of the Holy Drinker · as Andreas Kartak |
| 1987 | Escape from Sobibor · as Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky |
| 1986 | The Hitcher · as John Ryder |
| 1986 | Wanted: Dead or Alive · as Nick Randall |
| 1985 | Ladyhawke · as Captain Etienne Navarre |
| 1985 | Flesh+Blood · as Martin |
| 1984 | Terror in the Aisles · as Wulfgar (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 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 Roy Batty |
| 1981 | Chanel Solitaire · as Etienne de Balsan |
| 1981 | Nighthawks · as Wulfgar |
| 1980 | Spetters · as Gerrit Witkamp |
| 1979 | Grijpstra & De Gier · as Rinus de Gier |
| 1979 | Woman Between Wolf and Dog · as Unknown |
| 1979 | Es begann bei Tiffany · as Ryder |
| 1978 | Pastorale 1943 · as August Schultz |
| 1978 | Mysteries · as Johan Nagel |
| 1977 | Soldier of Orange · as Erik Lanshof |
| 1976 | Max Havelaar · as Duclari |
| 1975 | Katie Tippel · as Hugo |
| 1975 | Cold Blood · as Cris |
| 1975 | The Year of the Cancer · as Unknown |
| 1975 | Floris von Rosemund (TV Series) · as Floris |
| 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 |