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