Rutger Hauer
Biography
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.
Known For
Smallville
2001
True Blood
2008
American Playhouse
1982
American Playhouse
1982
The Last Kingdom
2015
De Wereld Draait Door
2005
Omnibus
1967
Batman Begins
2005
Blade Runner
1982
V Graham Norton
2002
Lexx
1997
Sin City
2005
Filmography
Smallville
as Morgan Edge · 2001
True Blood
as Niall Brigant · 2008
American Playhouse
as The Brain · 1982
American Playhouse
as Reuben Bean · 1982
The Last Kingdom
as Ravn · 2015
De Wereld Draait Door
as Self · 2005
Omnibus
as Narrator (voice) · 1967
Batman Begins
as Earle · 2005
Blade Runner
as Batty · 1982
V Graham Norton
as Self · 2002
Lexx
as Bog · 1997
Sin City
as Cardinal Roark · 2005
Alias
as Anthony Geiger · 2001
Channel Zero
as Joseph Peach · 2016
Galavant
as Kingsley · 2015
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
as President of the World State Federation · 2017
The Hitcher
as John Ryder · 1986
The Rite
as Istvan Kovak · 2011
Merlin
as King Vortingern · 1998
Salem's Lot
as Kurt Barlow · 2004
The 10th Kingdom
as Huntsman · 2000
The Real History of Science Fiction
as Self · 2014
Metal Hurlant Chronicles
as Kerm · 2012
24 Hours to Live
as Frank · 2017
Iron Mask
as English Ambassador · 2019
Mata Hari
as Стольбаккен · 2017
Porters
as Tillman · 2017
Ladyhawke
as Captain Etienne Navarre · 1985
The Sisters Brothers
as The Commodore · 2018
The Max Headroom Show
as Self · 1985
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
as Lothos · 1992
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
as King Zakour · 2015
Split Second
as Stone · 1992
Nighthawks
as Wulfgar · 1981
Blind Fury
as Nick Parker · 1989
Samson
as Manoah · 2018
Goal II: Living the Dream
as Rudi van der Merwe · 2007
Flesh + Blood
as Martin · 1985
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
as Keeler · 2002
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
as Curtiz · 1997
Flight of the Storks
as Sonderman · 2013
Inside the Third Reich
as Albert Speer · 1982
Hobo with a Shotgun
as Hobo · 2011
Turkish Delight
as Erik Vonk · 1973
The Poseidon Adventure
as Bishop August Schmidt · 2005
The Blood of Heroes
as Sallow · 1989
Fatherland
as SS-Sturmbannführer Xavier March · 1994
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Nick Randall · 1987
Escape from Sobibor
as Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky · 1987
Admiral
as Maarten Tromp · 2015
The Law of the Desert
as Tom Burton · 1991
Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich
as Oskar Halminski · 2016
Surviving the Game
as Burns · 1994
Dracula III: Legacy
as Dracula · 2005
Floris
as Floris van Rosemondt · 1969
Dead Tone
as Det. John Criton · 2007
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
as John Thornton · 1997
Zomer Draait Door, De
· 2007
Dracula 3D
as Abraham van Helsing · 2012
Fifty Shades of Erotica
as (archive footage) · 2015
Francesco
as Padre di Francesco · 2014
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
as Self · 2007
The Osterman Weekend
as John Tanner · 1983
Mysteries
as Simonsen aka Johan Frederik Nagel · 1978
Spetters
as Gerrit Witkamp · 1980
Naked and Lustful
· 1976
Wedlock
as Frank Warren · 1991
Blast
as Leo · 1997
Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal
as Copilot MacIntosh · 2001
Unity
as Narrator (voice) · 2015
Hostile Waters
as Cap. Britanov · 1997
Minotaur
as Cyrnan · 2006
Life's a Beach
as Jean-Luc · 2010
For Queen and Country
as Erik Lanshof · 1979
Bloodhounds of Broadway
as The Brain · 1989
The Wilby Conspiracy
as Blane Van Niekirk · 1975
Soldier of Orange
as Erik Lanshof · 1977
Precious Find
as Armond Crille · 1996
A Breed Apart
as Jim Malden · 1984
The Best of Max Headroom
as Self · 1987
Floris von Rosemund
as Floris · 1975
Bleeders
as Dr. Marlowe · 1997
The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point
as Gen. Frank Lewis · 2006
The Rhapsody
· 2008
Duel In De Diepte
as John van der Velde · 1979
The Hunt for Eagle One
as Gen. Frank Lewis · 2006
Barbarossa
as Federico Barbarossa · 2009
Eureka
as Claude Maillot Van Horn · 1983
Bone Daddy
as Palmer · 1998
2047: Sights of Death
as Colonel Asimov · 2014
The Sonata
as Richard Marlowe · 2018
Black Butterflies
as Abraham Jonker · 2011
Roel Oostra – Theaterman in hart en nieren
as Self (archive footage) · 2026
Deathline
as John Wade · 1997
Gangsterdam
as Dolph · 2017
The Broken Key
as Professor Moonlight · 2017
The Letters
as Benjamin Praagh · 2014
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
as Andreas Kartak · 1988
Warrior Angels
as Grekkor · 2002
Blind Side
as Jake Shell · 1993
The Room
· 2001
Corbin Nash
as Stranger · 2018
Behind the White Glasses
as Self · 2015
Woman Between Wolf and Dog
as Adriaan · 1979
Arctic Blue
as Ben Corbett · 1993
Dazzle
· 2009
Moving McAllister
as Maxwell McAllister · 2007
Katie Tippel
as Hugo · 1975
New World Disorder
as David Marx · 1999
Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
as Self · 2004
Past Midnight
as Ben Jordan · 1992
On a Moonlit Night
as John Knott · 1989
Rond Floris
as Self · 1969
Bride Flight
as Old Frank · 2008
Omega Doom
as Omega Doom · 1996
Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling
as Self · 2007
Crossworlds
as A.T. · 1996
Blood of the Innocent
as Dr. Lem · 1994
The 5th Execution
as Khant · 2011
Beyond Justice
as Tom Burton · 1992
Es begann bei Tiffany
as Ryder · 1979
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
as Self · 2000
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
as Fred Noonan · 1994
Partners in Crime
as Gene Reardon · 2000
Tempesta
as Van Beuningen · 2004
The Beans of Egypt, Maine
as Rueben Bean · 1994
Agent Ranjid Saves the World
as Freek van Dyk · 2012
Spoon
as Victor Spoon · 2011
Cold Blood
as Chris · 1975
Mirror Wars: Reflection One
as Mysterious Man · 2005
The Prince of Motor City
as William Hamilton · 2008
The Worlds of Philip K. Dick
as Self - Actor · 2016
Requiem 2019
· 2011
Clones
as Dr. Richards · 2015
The Cardboard Village
as Sacristan · 2011
Nostradamus
as The Mystic Monk · 1994
The Future
as Maciste · 2013
The Heineken Kidnapping
as Alfred Heineken · 2011
WAX: We Are the X
as Aron Mulder · 2016
The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
as Paul Marcinkus · 2002
Flying Virus
as Ezekial · 2001
Scorcher
as US President Nelson · 2002
Mr. Stitch
as Doctor Rue Wakeman · 1995
Happiness Runs
as Insley · 2010
The Hitcher: How Do These Movies Get Made?
· 2003
The Mill and the Cross
as Peter Bruegel · 2011
More Blood, More Heart: The Making of Hobo with a Shotgun
as Himself · 2011
Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
as Lieutenant Duclari · 1976
Tonight at Noon
as Diego
The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
as Dutch Schultz(voice) · 2001
Tactical Assault
as Capitaine John 'Doc' Holiday · 1998
Chanel Solitaire
as Etienne de Balsan · 1981
Real Playing Game
as Steve Batier · 2013
Simon Magus
as Count Albrecht, the Squire · 1999
Isip the Warrior
as Catholic Priest
Lying in Wait
as Keith Miller · 2001
Drawing Home
as Carl Rungius · 2017
Break
as Ray · 2020
Pastorale 1943
as August Schultz · 1978
The Revenge of the Dead Indians
as Himself · 1993
Voyage
as Morgan Norvell · 1993
The Edge
as Sheriff Emil Abel (Indian Poker) · 1989
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
as Self (archive footage) · 2021
All for One
as Niemeyer · 2011
The Reverend
as The Withstander · 2011
Mentor
as Sanford Pollard · 2006
Wilder
as Dr. Sam Dennis Charney · 2000
Michelangelo: The Heart and the Stone
as Michelangelo · 2012
Mariette in Ecstasy
as Chaplan · 1996
Dandelions
as Rick · 1974
Cancer Rising
as Pierre · 1975
Magic Flute Diaries
as Dr. Richard Nagel · 2008
3
as Father (voice) · 2009
Cyrano de Bergerac
as de Valvert · 1975
Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood
as Himself · 1996
Genderness
· 2016
Fatal Error
as Rinus de Gier · 1979
Starting Over
as Peter Rossen · 2007
Starfish Tango
as Self
Francesco
as Padre di Francesco · 2014
Floris
as Floris (archive footage from Floris, 1969) · 2004
The Ruby Ring
as Patrick Collins · 1997
Portable Life
as Antonio · 2011
Blond, Blue Eyes
as Self · 2006
Eating Pattern
as Bog · 1997
Heilige Jeanne
as Dunois · 1978
Never Enough
as Sebastian · 2004