Rutger Hauer
Acting
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.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
as President of the World State Federation
Age 73 (now 75)
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
Age 77 (now 75)
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
as President of the World State Federation
Age 73 (now 75)
Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich
as Oskar Halminski
Age 72 (now 75)
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
as King Zakour
Age 70 (now 75)
Michelangelo: The Heart and the Stone
as Michelangelo
Age 68 (now 75)
More Blood, More Heart: The Making of Hobo with a Shotgun
as Himself
Age 67 (now 75)
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
as Self
Age 63 (now 75)Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling
as Self
Age 63 (now 75)
The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point
as Gen. Frank Lewis
Age 62 (now 75)
Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
as Self
Age 59 (now 75)
The Hitcher: How Do These Movies Get Made?
The Bankers Of God: The Calvi Affair
as Paul Marcinkus
Age 58 (now 75)
The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
as Dutch Schultz(voice)
Age 57 (now 75)
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
as John Thornton
Age 53 (now 75)
Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood
as Himself
Age 51 (now 75)
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
as Fred Noonan
Age 50 (now 75)
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
as Andreas Kartak
Age 44 (now 75)
Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
as Lieutenant Duclari
Age 32 (now 75)
The Real History of Science Fiction
as Self
Age 70 (now 75)
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Also Known As
راتخر هاور, رودگر هاور, Rutger Oelsen Hauer
IMDB
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