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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 23, 1944
Died
July 19, 2019
Place of Birth
Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands
Also Known As
- راتخر هاور
- رودگر هاور
Rutger Hauer
1.3 Popularity
Biography
Rutger Oelsen Hauer 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
7.5
Self (archive footage)
Like Tears in Rain
2024
0.0
Himself (archive footage)
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
2021
5.5
Ray
Break
2020
6.1
English Ambassador
Iron Mask
2019
4.8
Richard Marlowe
The Sonata
2018
6.8
The Commodore
The Sisters Brothers
2018
4.6
Stranger
Corbin Nash
2018
5.7
Manoah
Samson
2018
0.0
Carl Rungius
Drawing Home
2017
3.3
Professor Moonlight
The Broken Key
2017
Credits
Like Tears in Rain
as Self (archive footage)
2024
7.5
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
as Himself (archive footage)
2021
0.0
Break
as Ray
2020
5.5
Iron Mask
as English Ambassador
2019
6.1
The Sonata
as Richard Marlowe
2018
4.8
The Sisters Brothers
as The Commodore
2018
6.8
Corbin Nash
as Stranger
2018
4.6
Samson
as Manoah
2018
5.7
Drawing Home
as Carl Rungius
2017
0.0
The Broken Key
as Professor Moonlight
2017
3.3
24 Hours to Live
as Frank
2017
5.9
Porters
as Tillman
2017
8.3
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
as President of the World State Federation
2017
6.6
Gangsterdam
as Dolph
2017
5.3
Mata Hari
as Стольбаккен
2017
5.2
Uncle Howard
as Self (archive footage)
2017
6.5
🎬
Genderness
2016
0.0
Channel Zero
as Joseph Peach
2016
7.1
Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich
as Oskar Halminski
2016
5.5
Wax - We Are The X
as Aron Mulder
2016
7.2
The Worlds of Philip K. Dick
as Self - Actor
2016
6.8
The Last Kingdom
as Ravn
2015
8.3
Behind the White Glasses
as Self
2015
6.3
Unity
as Narrator (voice)
2015
7.5
Clones
as Dr. Richards
2015
5.0
Fifty Shades of Erotica
2015
7.0
Admiral
as Maarten Tromp
2015
6.4
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
as King Zakour
2015
5.2
Galavant
as Kingsley
2015
7.3
Francesco
as Padre di Francesco
2014
0.0
Francesco
as Padre di Francesco
2014
7.0
2047: Sights of Death
as Colonel Asimov
2014
2.9
The Real History of Science Fiction
as Himself
2014
6.9
The Letters
as Benjamin Praagh
2014
5.5
The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy
as Self (archive footage)
2013
6.8
The Future
as Maciste
2013
5.3
Real Playing Game
as Steve Batier
2013
4.0
Flight of the Storks
as Sonderman
2013
6.6
Dracula 3D
as Abraham van Helsing
2012
3.4
Michelangelo: The Heart and the Stone
as Michelangelo
2012
0.0
Metal Hurlant Chronicles
as Kerm
2012
6.1
Agent Ranjid Saves the World
as Freek van Dyk
2012
4.3
The Heineken Kidnapping
as Alfred Heineken
2011
6.1
The Cardboard Village
as Sacristan
2011
5.7
Portable Life
as Antonio
2011
0.0
The Reverend
as The Withstander
2011
3.5
More Blood, More Heart: The Making of Hobo with a Shotgun
as Himself
2011
6.8
Hobo with a Shotgun
as Hobo
2011
5.9
The 5th Execution
as Khant
2011
3.7
The Mill and the Cross
as Peter Bruegel
2011
6.4
All for One
as Niemeyer
2011
6.0
Black Butterflies
as Abraham Jonker
2011
5.7
The Rite
as Istvan Kovak
2011
6.1
Spoon
as Victor Spoon
2011
0.0
Requiem 2019
2011
0.0
Happiness Runs
as Insley
2010
4.0
Life's a Beach
as Jean-Luc
2010
2.5
Barbarossa
as Federico Barbarossa
2009
5.3
3
as Father (voice)
2009
0.0
Dazzle
2009
5.8
Bride Flight
as Old Frank
2008
6.8
True Blood
as Niall Brigant
2008
7.6
🎬
The Prince of Motor City
as William Hamilton
2008
0.0
Magic Flute Diaries
as Dr. Richard Nagel
2008
0.0
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
as Self
2007
7.9
🎬
Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling
as Self
2007
0.0
Starting Over
as Peter Rossen
2007
4.0
Moving McAllister
as Maxwell McAllister
2007
5.0
🎬
Zomer Draait Door, De
2007
0.0
Dead Tone
as Det. John Criton
2007
4.6
Goal II: Living the Dream
as Rudi van der Merwe
2007
6.0
Blond, Blue Eyes
as Self
2006
6.7
The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point
as Gen. Frank Lewis
2006
4.4
Mentor
as Sanford Pollard
2006
8.0
Minotaur
as Cyrnan
2006
4.9
The Hunt for Eagle One
as Gen. Frank Lewis
2006
5.2
The Poseidon Adventure
as Bishop August Schmidt
2005
5.1
De Wereld Draait Door
as Self
2005
5.6
Mirror Wars: Reflection One
as Mysterious Man
2005
3.1
Dracula III: Legacy
as Dracula
2005
5.0
Batman Begins
as Earle
2005
7.7
Sin City
as Cardinal Patrick Henry Roark
2005
7.5
🎬
Never Enough
as Sebastian
2004
10.0
Salem's Lot
as Kurt Barlow
2004
5.9
Tempesta
as Van Beuningen
2004
5.1
Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
as Self
2004
7.0
The Hitcher: How Do These Movies Get Made?
2003
7.0
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
as Keeler
2002
6.7
Warrior Angels
as Grekkor
2002
3.8
Scorcher
as US President Nelson
2002
4.5
V Graham Norton
as Self
2002
5.0
The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
as Paul Marcinkus
2002
6.1
Flying Virus
as Ezekial
2001
3.7
Smallville
as Morgan Edge
2001
8.2
Alias
as Anthony Geiger
2001
6.8
Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal
as Copilot MacIntosh
2001
4.1
The Room
2001
6.5
Lying in Wait
as Keith Miller
2001
4.3
Wilder
as Dr. Sam Dennis Charney
2000
4.1
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
as Self
2000
7.2
The 10th Kingdom
as Huntsman
2000
7.6
Partners in Crime
as Gene Reardon
2000
5.5
New World Disorder
as David Marx
1999
3.5
Simon Magus
as Count Albrecht, the Squire
1999
7.3
Bone Daddy
as Palmer
1998
4.2
Merlin
as King Vortingern
1998
6.9
Tactical Assault
as Capitaine John 'Doc' Holiday
1998
4.8
The Ruby Ring
as Patrick Collins
1997
5.5
Hostile Waters
as Cap. Britanov
1997
6.0
Deathline
as John Wade
1997
5.0
Eating Pattern
as Bog
1997
7.0
Bleeders
as Dr. Marlowe
1997
4.4
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
as John Thornton
1997
7.4
Lexx
as Bog
1997
7.1
Blast
as Leo
1997
3.8
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
as Curtiz
1997
7.7
Omega Doom
as Omega Doom
1996
4.4
🎬
Mariette in Ecstasy
as Chaplan
1996
0.0
Precious Find
as Armond Crille
1996
5.3
Crossworlds
as A.T.
1996
5.1
🎬
Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood
as Himself
1996
5.2
Mr. Stitch
as Doctor Rue Wakeman
1995
4.8
Fatherland
as SS-Sturmbannführer Xavier March
1994
6.2
The Beans of Egypt, Maine
as Rueben Bean
1994
5.0
Nostradamus
as The Mystic Monk
1994
5.7
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
as Fred Noonan
1994
6.2
Surviving the Game
as Thomas Burns
1994
6.1
Blood of the Innocent
as Dr. Lem
1994
4.5
Voyage
as Morgan Norvell
1993
5.1
Blind Side
as Jake Shell
1993
5.4
Arctic Blue
as Ben Corbett
1993
4.5
The Revenge of the Dead Indians
as Himself
1993
0.0
Beyond Justice
as Tom Burton
1992
3.5
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
as Lothos
1992
5.6
Past Midnight
as Ben Jordan
1992
5.1
Split Second
as Stone
1992
5.9
Wedlock
as Frank Warren
1991
5.8
Desert Law
as Tom Burton
1991
5.4
Bloodhounds of Broadway
as The Brain
1989
5.6
The Blood of Heroes
as Sallow
1989
5.8
On a Moonlit Night
as John Knott
1989
6.1
The Edge
as Sheriff Emil Abel
1989
2.0
Blind Fury
as Nick Parker
1989
6.5
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
as Andreas Kartak
1988
6.6
Escape from Sobibor
as Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky
1987
7.2
The Best of Max Headroom
as Self
1987
0.0
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Nick Randall
1987
5.9
The Hitcher
as John Ryder
1986
7.0
Flesh + Blood
as Martin
1985
6.6
The Max Headroom Show
as Self
1985
7.5
Ladyhawke
as Captain Etienne Navarre
1985
7.0
A Breed Apart
as Jim Malden
1984
5.7
The Osterman Weekend
as John Tanner
1983
5.7
Eureka
as Claude Maillot Van Horn
1983
5.3
Blade Runner
as Batty
1982
7.9
Inside the Third Reich
as Albert Speer
1982
7.2
Chanel Solitaire
as Etienne de Balsan
1981
4.7
Nighthawks
as Wulfgar
1981
6.4
Spetters
as Gerrit Witkamp
1980
6.4
Duel In De Diepte
as John van der Velde
1979
5.5
Fatal Error
as Rinus de Gier
1979
6.0
Woman Between Wolf and Dog
as Adriaan
1979
5.6
Es begann bei Tiffany
as Ryder
1979
4.0
For Queen and Country
as Erik Lanshof
1979
6.5
Mysteries
as Johan Nagel
1978
5.1
Pastorale 1943
as August Schultz
1978
5.5
Heilige Jeanne
as Dunois
1978
0.0
Soldier of Orange
as Erik Lanshof
1977
7.1
Naked and Lustful
1976
4.8
Max Havelaar
as Duclari
1976
6.1
Cyrano de Bergerac
as de Valvert
1975
0.0
Cancer Rising
as Pierre
1975
6.3
Floris von Rosemund
as Floris
1975
7.0
Cold Blood
as Cris
1975
5.6
Katie Tippel
as Hugo
1975
6.5
The Wilby Conspiracy
as Blane Van Niekirk
1975
6.4
Dandelions
as Rick
1974
4.2
Turkish Delight
as Eric Vonk
1973
6.8
Rond Floris
as Self
1969
10.0
Floris
as Floris
1969
7.7
Omnibus
as Narrator (voice)
1967
7.2
🎬
Tonight at Noon
as Diego
N/A
0.0
🎬
Isip the Warrior
as Catholic Priest
N/A
0.0
🎬
Starfish Tango
as Self
N/A
0.0