Biography
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
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Movies 162
TV Shows 24
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Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood (2021)
Break (2020)
Iron Mask (2019)
The Sonata (2018)
The Sisters Brothers (2018)
Corbin Nash (2018)
Samson (2018)
Drawing Home (2017)
The Broken Key (2017)
24 Hours to Live (2017)
Porters (2017)
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
Gangsterdam (2017)
Mata Hari (2017)
Uncle Howard (2017)
Genderness (2016)
Channel Zero (2016)
Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the Fourth Reich (2016)
Wax: We Are The X (2016)
The Worlds of Philip K. Dick (2016)
The Last Kingdom (2015)
Behind the White Glasses (2015)
Unity (2015)
Clones (2015)
Fifty Shades of Erotica (2015)
Admiral (2015)
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power (2015)
Galavant (2015)
Francesco (2014)
2047: Sights of Death (2014)
The Real History of Science Fiction (2014)
The Letters (2014)
The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy (2013)
The Future (2013)
Real Playing Game (2013)
North America (2013)
Flight of the Storks (2013)
Dracula 3D (2012)
Metal Hurlant Chronicles (2012)
Agent Ranjid rettet die Welt (2012)
The Heineken Kidnapping (2011)
The Cardboard Village (2011)
Portable Life (2011)
The Reverend (2011)
More Blood, More Heart: The Making of Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
The 5th Execution (2011)
The Mill and the Cross (2011)
All for One (2011)
Black Butterflies (2011)
The Rite (2011)
Spoon (2011)
Happiness Runs (2010)
Life's a Beach (2010)
Barbarossa (2009)
3 (2009)
Dazzle (2009)
Bride Flight (2008)
True Blood (2008)
The Prince of Motor City (2008)
The Rhapsody (2008)
Magic Flute Diaries (2008)
Dangerous Days: Making 'Blade Runner' (2007)
Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling (2007)
Starting Over (2007)
Moving McAllister (2007)
Zomer Draait Door, De (2007)
Dead Tone (2007)
Goal! II: Living the Dream (2007)
Blond, Blue Eyes (2006)
The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point (2006)
Mentor (2006)
Minotaur (2006)
The Hunt for Eagle One (2006)
The Poseidon Adventure (2005)
De Wereld Draait Door (2005)
Mirror Wars: Reflection One (2005)
Dracula III: Legacy (2005)
Batman Begins (2005)
Sin City (2005)
Never Enough (2004)
Salem's Lot (2004)
Tempesta (2004)
Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend' (2004)
The Hitcher: How Do These Movies Get Made? (2003)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
Warrior Angels (2002)
Scorcher (2002)
V Graham Norton (2002)
The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair (2002)
Flying Virus (2001)
Smallville (2001)
Alias (2001)
Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal (2001)
The Room (2001)
Lying in Wait (2001)
Wilder (2000)
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner' (2000)
The 10th Kingdom (2000)
Partners in Crime (2000)
New World Disorder (1999)
Simon Magus (1999)
Bone Daddy (1998)
Merlin (1998)
Tactical Assault (1998)
The Ruby Ring (1997)
Hostile Waters (1997)
Deathline (1997)
Eating Pattern (1997)
Bleeders (1997)
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon (1997)
Lexx (1997)
Blast (1997)
Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)
Crossworlds (1996)
Omega Doom (1996)
Mariette in Ecstasy (1996)
Precious Find (1996)
Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood (1996)
Mr. Stitch (1995)
Fatherland (1994)
The Beans of Egypt, Maine (1994)
Nostradamus (1994)
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight (1994)
Surviving the Game (1994)
Blood of the Innocent (1994)
Voyage (1993)
Blind Side (1993)
Arctic Blue (1993)
The Revenge of the Dead Indians (1993)
Beyond Justice (1992)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
Past Midnight (1992)
Split Second (1992)
Wedlock (1991)
Desert Law (1991)
Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989)
The Blood of Heroes (1989)
On a Moonlit Night (1989)
The Edge (1989)
Blind Fury (1989)
The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988)
Escape from Sobibor (1987)
Wanted: Dead or Alive (1987)
The Hitcher (1986)
Flesh + Blood (1985)
Ladyhawke (1985)
Terror in the Aisles (1984)
A Breed Apart (1984)
The Osterman Weekend (1983)
Eureka (1983)
Blade Runner (1982)
Inside the Third Reich (1982)
Nighthawks (1981)
Chanel Solitaire (1981)
Spetters (1980)
Duel In De Diepte (1979)
Fatal Error (1979)
Woman Between Wolf and Dog (1979)
Es begann bei Tiffany (1979)
For Queen and Country (1979)
Mysteries (1978)
Pastorale 1943 (1978)
Heilige Jeanne (1978)
Soldier of Orange (1977)
Naked and Lustful (1976)
Max Havelaar (1976)
Cyrano de Bergerac (1975)
Cancer Rising (1975)
Floris von Rosemund (1975)
Cold Blood (1975)
Katie Tippel (1975)
The Wilby Conspiracy (1975)
Dandelions (1974)
Turkish Delight (1973)
Rond Floris (1969)
Floris (1969)
Wedlock
Tonight at Noon
Requiem 2019
Isip the Warrior
Starfish Tango
Cuba libre
The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
Soldaat van Oranje Revisited
Emperor
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1944-01-23
Deathday2019-07-19 (75 years old)
Birth NameRutger Oelsen Hauer
Birth PlaceBreukelen, Netherlands
Height1.85-meter
SpouseIneke ten Cate
ChildrenAysha Hauer
FatherArend Hauer
MotherTeunke Mellema
CitizenshipsKingdom of the Netherlands
AwardsGolden Calf for Best Actor, Golden Calf Culture Prize, Order of the Netherlands Lion, Golden Globe Award
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