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.
155 movies · 28 shows
Moonage Daydream
2022·7.5
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
2021·0.0
Break
2020·5.5
Iron Mask
2019·6.1
The Sonata
2018·4.8
The Sisters Brothers
2018·6.8
Corbin Nash
2018·4.5
Samson
2018·5.7
Drawing Home
2017·0.0
The Broken Key
2017·3.2
24 Hours to Live
2017·6.0
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
2017·6.7
Gangsterdam
2017·5.3
Genderness
2016·0.0
Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich
2016·5.4
Wax - We Are The X
2016·7.2
The Worlds of Philip K. Dick
2016·6.6
Behind the White Glasses
2015·6.3
Unity
2015·7.5
Clones
2015·5.5
Fifty Shades of Erotica
2015·7.0
Admiral
2015·6.5
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
2015·5.2
Francesco
2014·7.0
2047: Sights of Death
2014·2.9
The Letters
2014·5.5
The Future
2013·5.2
Real Playing Game
2013·4.0
Dracula 3D
2012·3.5
Michelangelo: The Heart and the Stone
2012·0.0
Agent Ranjid Saves the World
2012·4.3
The Heineken Kidnapping
2011·6.1
The Cardboard Village
2011·5.7
Portable Life
2011·0.0
The Reverend
2011·3.3
More Blood, More Heart: The Making of Hobo with a Shotgun
2011·6.5
Hobo with a Shotgun
2011·5.9
The 5th Execution
2011·3.7
The Mill and the Cross
2011·6.4
All for One
2011·6.0
Black Butterflies
2011·5.6
The Rite
2011·6.1
Spoon
2011·0.0
Requiem 2019
2011·0.0
Happiness Runs
2010·4.5
Life's a Beach
2010·3.3
Barbarossa
2009·5.2
3
2009·8.0
Dazzle
2009·5.8
The Rhapsody
2008·0.0
Bride Flight
2008·6.7
The Prince of Motor City
2008·0.0
Magic Flute Diaries
2008·0.0
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
2007·7.8
Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling
2007·0.0
Starting Over
2007·4.5
Moving McAllister
2007·5.1
Dead Tone
2007·4.7
Goal II: Living the Dream
2007·6.0
Blond, Blue Eyes
2006·6.7
The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point
2006·4.5
Mentor
2006·8.3
Minotaur
2006·4.9
The Hunt for Eagle One
2006·5.4
The Poseidon Adventure
2005·5.2
Mirror Wars: Reflection One
2005·3.3
Dracula III: Legacy
2005·4.9
Batman Begins
2005·7.7
Sin City
2005·7.5
Floris
2004·5.6
Never Enough
2004·10.0
Tempesta
2004·4.9
Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
2004·7.0
The Hitcher: How Do These Movies Get Made?
2003·7.5
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2002·6.7
Warrior Angels
2002·4.5
Scorcher
2002·4.6
The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
2002·6.3
Flying Virus
2001·4.1
The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
2001·7.0
Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal
2001·4.3
The Room
2001·7.2
Lying in Wait
2001·4.5
Wilder
2000·4.4
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
2000·7.7
Partners in Crime
2000·6.7
New World Disorder
1999·4.2
Simon Magus
1999·7.4
Bone Daddy
1998·4.6
Tactical Assault
1998·5.3
The Ruby Ring
1997·6.3
Hostile Waters
1997·6.1
Deathline
1997·5.1
Eating Pattern
1997·7.0
Bleeders
1997·4.5
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997·7.3
Blast
1997·4.4
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
1997·7.7
Omega Doom
1996·4.5
Mariette in Ecstasy
1996·8.0
Precious Find
1996·5.4
Crossworlds
1996·5.2
Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood
1996·5.2
Mr. Stitch
1995·4.7
Fatherland
1994·6.2
The Beans of Egypt, Maine
1994·6.0
Nostradamus
1994·5.8
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
1994·6.2
Surviving the Game
1994·6.1
Blood of the Innocent
1994·5.3
Voyage
1993·5.3
Blind Side
1993·5.5
Arctic Blue
1993·4.7
The Revenge of the Dead Indians
1993·7.0
Beyond Justice
1992·3.8
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992·5.6
Past Midnight
1992·5.1
Split Second
1992·6.0
Wedlock
1991·5.8
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989·5.7
The Blood of Heroes
1989·5.9
On a Moonlit Night
1989·6.7
The Edge
1989·4.0
Blind Fury
1989·6.5
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
1988·6.6
Escape from Sobibor
1987·7.2
The Best of Max Headroom
1987·0.0
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1987·6.0
The Hitcher
1986·7.0
Flesh + Blood
1985·6.6
Ladyhawke
1985·7.0
A Breed Apart
1984·5.8
The Osterman Weekend
1983·5.6
Eureka
1983·5.3
Blade Runner
1982·7.9
Chanel Solitaire
1981·5.0
Nighthawks
1981·6.4
Spetters
1980·6.4
Fatal Error
1979·5.9
Woman Between Wolf and Dog
1979·5.6
Es begann bei Tiffany
1979·4.8
Mysteries
1978·5.2
Pastorale 1943
1978·5.7
Heilige Jeanne
1978·0.0
Soldier of Orange
1977·7.1
Naked and Lustful
1976·5.2
Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
1976·6.4
Cyrano de Bergerac
1975·0.0
Cancer Rising
1975·7.0
Cold Blood
1975·5.5
Katie Tippel
1975·6.3
The Wilby Conspiracy
1975·6.4
Dandelions
1974·4.5
Turkish Delight
1973·6.8
Rond Floris
1969·10.0