Rutger Hauer
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.
Acted in
Like Tears in Rain
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
2021
as Himself (archive footage)
Break
2020
as Ray
Iron Mask
2019
as English Ambassador
The Sonata
2018
as Richard Marlowe
The Sisters Brothers
2018
as The Commodore
Corbin Nash
2018
as Stranger
Samson
2018
as Manoah
Drawing Home
2017
as Carl Rungius
The Broken Key
2017
as Professor Moonlight
24 Hours to Live
2017
as Frank
Porters
2017
as Tillman
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
2017
as President of the World State Federation
Gangsterdam
2017
as Dolph
Mata Hari
2017
as Стольбаккен
Uncle Howard
2017
as Self (archive footage)
Genderness
2016
Channel Zero
2016
as Joseph Peach
Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the Fourth Reich
2016
as Oskar Halminski
Wax - We Are The X
2016
as Aron Mulder
The Worlds of Philip K. Dick
2016
as Self - Actor
The Last Kingdom
2015
as Ravn
Behind the White Glasses
2015
as Self
Unity
2015
as Narrator (voice)
Clones
2015
as Dr. Richards
Fifty Shades of Erotica
2015
Admiral
2015
as Maarten Tromp
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
2015
as King Zakour
Galavant
2015
as Kingsley
Francesco
2014
as Padre di Francesco
2047: Sights of Death
2014
as Colonel Asimov
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014
as Himself
The Letters
2014
as Benjamin Praagh
The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy
2013
as Self (archive footage)
The Future
2013
as Maciste
Real Playing Game
2013
as Steve Batier
Flight of the Storks
2013
as Sonderman
Dracula 3D
2012
as Abraham van Helsing
Metal Hurlant Chronicles
2012
as Kerm
Agent Ranjid Saves the World
2012
as Freek van Dyk
The Heineken Kidnapping
2011
as Alfred Heineken
The Cardboard Village
2011
as Sacristan
Portable Life
2011
as Antonio
The Reverend
2011
as The Withstander
More Blood, More Heart: The Making of Hobo with a Shotgun
2011
as Himself
Hobo with a Shotgun
2011
as Hobo
The 5th Execution
2011
as Khant
The Mill and the Cross
2011
as Peter Bruegel
All for One
2011
as Niemeyer
Black Butterflies
2011
as Abraham Jonker
The Rite
2011
as Istvan Kovak
Spoon
2011
as Victor Spoon
Requiem 2019
2011
Happiness Runs
2010
as Insley
Life's a Beach
2010
as Jean-Luc
Barbarossa
2009
as Federico Barbarossa
3
2009
as Father (voice)
Dazzle
2009
Bride Flight
2008
as Old Frank
True Blood
2008
as Niall Brigant
The Prince of Motor City
2008
as William Hamilton
Magic Flute Diaries
2008
as Dr. Richard Nagel
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
2007
as Self
Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling
2007
as Self
Starting Over
2007
as Peter Rossen
Moving McAllister
2007
as Maxwell McAllister
Zomer Draait Door, De
2007
Dead Tone
2007
as Det. John Criton
Goal II: Living the Dream
2007
as Rudi van der Merwe
Blond, Blue Eyes
2006
as Self
The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point
2006
as Gen. Frank Lewis
Mentor
2006
as Sanford Pollard
Minotaur
2006
as Cyrnan
The Hunt for Eagle One
2006
as Gen. Frank Lewis
The Poseidon Adventure
2005
as Bishop August Schmidt
Mirror Wars: Reflection One
2005
as Mysterious Man
Dracula III: Legacy
2005
as Dracula
Batman Begins
2005
as Earle
Sin City
2005
as Cardinal Patrick Henry Roark
Never Enough
2004
as Sebastian
Salem's Lot
2004
as Kurt Barlow
Tempesta
2004
as Van Beuningen
Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
2004
as Self
The Hitcher: How Do These Movies Get Made?
2003
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2002
as Keeler
Warrior Angels
2002
as Grekkor
Scorcher
2002
as US President Nelson
The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
2002
as Paul Marcinkus
Flying Virus
2001
as Ezekial
Smallville
2001
as Morgan Edge
Alias
2001
as Anthony Geiger
Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal
2001
as Copilot MacIntosh
The Room
2001
Lying in Wait
2001
as Keith Miller
Wilder
2000
as Dr. Sam Dennis Charney
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
2000
as Self
The 10th Kingdom
2000
as The Huntsman
The 10th Kingdom
2000
as Huntsman
Partners in Crime
2000
as Gene Reardon
New World Disorder
1999
as David Marx
Simon Magus
1999
as Count Albrecht, the Squire
Bone Daddy
1998
as Palmer
Merlin
1998
as King Vortingern
Tactical Assault
1998
as Capitaine John 'Doc' Holiday
The Ruby Ring
1997
as Patrick Collins
Hostile Waters
1997
as Cap. Britanov
Deathline
1997
as John Wade
Eating Pattern
1997
as Bog
Bleeders
1997
as Dr. Marlowe
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997
as John Thornton
Lexx
1997
as Bog
Blast
1997
as Leo
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
1997
as Curtiz
Omega Doom
1996
as Omega Doom
Mariette in Ecstasy
1996
as Chaplan
Precious Find
1996
as Armond Crille
Crossworlds
1996
as A.T.
Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood
1996
as Himself
Mr. Stitch
1995
as Doctor Rue Wakeman
Fatherland
1994
as SS-Sturmbannführer Xavier March
The Beans of Egypt, Maine
1994
as Rueben Bean
Nostradamus
1994
as The Mystic Monk
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
1994
as Fred Noonan
Surviving the Game
1994
as Thomas Burns
Blood of the Innocent
1994
as Dr. Lem
Voyage
1993
as Morgan Norvell
Blind Side
1993
as Jake Shell
Arctic Blue
1993
as Ben Corbett
The Revenge of the Dead Indians
1993
as Himself
Beyond Justice
1992
as Tom Burton
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992
as Lothos
Past Midnight
1992
as Ben Jordan
Split Second
1992
as Stone
Wedlock
1991
as Frank Warren
Desert Law
1991
as Tom Burton
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989
as The Brain
The Blood of Heroes
1989
as Sallow
On a Moonlit Night
1989
as John Knott
The Edge
1989
as Sheriff Emil Abel
Blind Fury
1989
as Nick Parker
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
1988
as Andreas Kartak
Escape from Sobibor
1987
as Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1987
as Nick Randall
The Hitcher
1986
as John Ryder
Flesh + Blood
1985
as Martin
Ladyhawke
1985
as Captain Etienne Navarre
A Breed Apart
1984
as Jim Malden
The Osterman Weekend
1983
as John Tanner
Eureka
1983
as Claude Maillot Van Horn
Blade Runner
1982
as Batty
Inside the Third Reich
1982
as Albert Speer
Nighthawks
1981
as Wulfgar
Chanel Solitaire
1981
as Etienne de Balsan
Spetters
1980
as Gerrit Witkamp
Duel In De Diepte
1979
as John van der Velde
Fatal Error
1979
as Rinus de Gier
Woman Between Wolf and Dog
1979
Es begann bei Tiffany
1979
as Ryder
For Queen and Country
1979
as Erik Lanshof
Mysteries
1978
as Johan Nagel
Pastorale 1943
1978
as August Schultz
Heilige Jeanne
1978
as Dunois
Soldier of Orange
1977
as Erik Lanshof
Naked and Lustful
1976
Max Havelaar
1976
as Duclari
Cyrano de Bergerac
1975
as de Valvert
Cancer Rising
1975
as Pierre
Floris von Rosemund
1975
as Floris
Cold Blood
1975
as Cris
Katie Tippel
1975
as Hugo
The Wilby Conspiracy
1975
as Blane Van Niekirk
Dandelions
1974
as Rick
Turkish Delight
1973
as Eric Vonk
Rond Floris
1969
as Self
Floris
1969
as Floris
Isip the Warrior
as Catholic Priest
Tonight at Noon
as Diego
Starfish Tango
as Self