Rutger Hauer
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1944-01-23
Place of Birth
Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands
Rutger Hauer
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.
Also Known For
Blade Runner
Jun 25, 1982
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Feb 20, 1997
Sin City
Apr 01, 2005
Batman Begins
Jun 10, 2005
Ladyhawke
Mar 27, 1985
Soldier of Orange
Sep 22, 1977
Wedlock
May 10, 1991
Hostile Waters
Oct 18, 1997
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Jul 24, 1992
The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point
Jun 27, 2006
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Dec 31, 2002
Turkish Delight
Feb 22, 1973
Happiness Runs
May 14, 2010
Fatherland
Nov 26, 1994
Scorcher
Oct 04, 2002
The Blood of Heroes
Oct 19, 1989
Nighthawks
Mar 17, 1981
Isip the Warrior
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Jan 16, 1987
The Wilby Conspiracy
Feb 01, 1975
Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling
Dec 03, 2007
Tonight at Noon
Escape from Sobibor
Apr 12, 1987
The Osterman Weekend
Oct 14, 1983
Flesh + Blood
Aug 30, 1985
The Hitcher
Jan 17, 1986
Split Second
May 01, 1992
Goal II: Living the Dream
Feb 09, 2007
Spetters
Feb 28, 1980
The Poseidon Adventure
Nov 20, 2005
New World Disorder
Dec 03, 1999
Katie Tippel
Mar 06, 1975
Tactical Assault
Apr 07, 1998
Blind Side
Jan 30, 1993
Wilder
Nov 01, 2000
Dead Tone
May 16, 2007
The 5th Execution
Mar 24, 2011
Precious Find
Jun 26, 1996
Eureka
May 01, 1983
On a Moonlit Night
Sep 05, 1989
Barbarossa
Oct 09, 2009
Deathline
Sep 26, 1997
Portable Life
Sep 01, 2011
Omega Doom
Oct 21, 1996
Cold Blood
Jul 18, 1975
Crossworlds
Feb 14, 1996
Surviving the Game
Apr 15, 1994
Heilige Jeanne
Mar 24, 1978
Hobo with a Shotgun
May 06, 2011
The Rite
Jan 28, 2011
Moving McAllister
Sep 13, 2007
Past Midnight
May 03, 1992
Bride Flight
Oct 15, 2008
Nostradamus
Aug 18, 1994
The Hunt for Eagle One
Jan 17, 2006
Minotaur
Mar 11, 2006
Blind Fury
Aug 17, 1989
Pastorale 1943
Apr 20, 1978
Black Butterflies
Feb 06, 2011
All for One
Feb 10, 2011
Bloodhounds of Broadway
Nov 03, 1989
Flying Virus
Dec 31, 2001
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
Sep 02, 1988
Chanel Solitaire
Oct 16, 1981
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
Jun 22, 1997
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
Dec 18, 2007
The Mill and the Cross
Mar 18, 2011
The Heineken Kidnapping
Oct 27, 2011
Tempesta
May 10, 2004
Arctic Blue
Jan 01, 1993
Bleeders
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Fatal Error
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A Breed Apart
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The Cardboard Village
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Oct 11, 1975
Lying in Wait
Mar 15, 2001
Magic Flute Diaries
Apr 15, 2008
The Reverend
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Beyond Justice
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Life's a Beach
Jan 01, 2010
The Future
Sep 06, 2013
Dracula 3D
Nov 09, 2012
Voyage
Jun 01, 1993
Agent Ranjid Saves the World
Oct 18, 2012
Partners in Crime
Jan 07, 2000
The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy
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Mysteries
Sep 07, 1978
More Blood, More Heart: The Making of Hobo with a Shotgun
Jul 04, 2011
Real Playing Game
Aug 28, 2013
Starting Over
Nov 10, 2007
Woman Between Wolf and Dog
Jun 04, 1979
Never Enough
Nov 24, 2004
The Letters
Feb 23, 2014
Drawing Home
Dec 01, 2017
The Beans of Egypt, Maine
Nov 23, 1994
Blast
Mar 13, 1997
Eating Pattern
Sep 04, 1997
Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood
Jan 08, 1996
The Revenge of the Dead Indians
Jan 01, 1993
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
Jun 12, 1994
The Prince of Motor City
Jul 09, 2008
Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal
May 13, 2001
2047: Sights of Death
Jun 13, 2014
Warrior Angels
Oct 11, 2002
Mirror Wars: Reflection One
Sep 01, 2005
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
Jul 15, 2000
Spoon
Jan 01, 2011
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
Jan 09, 2015
Cancer Rising
Sep 18, 1975
Admiral
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Rond Floris
Oct 15, 1969
Inside the Third Reich
May 09, 1982
Requiem 2019
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Blond, Blue Eyes
Oct 04, 2006
Starfish Tango
Es begann bei Tiffany
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The Worlds of Philip K. Dick
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The Ruby Ring
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Unity
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Behind the White Glasses
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Dazzle
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Francesco
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Mr. Stitch
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Genderness
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Gangsterdam
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Desert Law
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Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich
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Bone Daddy
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
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Iron Mask
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Dandelions
Oct 11, 1974
Corbin Nash
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Clones
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Mentor
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Dracula III: Legacy
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Max Havelaar
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Naked and Lustful
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Blood of the Innocent
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The Broken Key
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Samson
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The Sonata
Nov 15, 2018
24 Hours to Live
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Mariette in Ecstasy
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The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
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The Sisters Brothers
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Fifty Shades of Erotica
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Simon Magus
Feb 17, 1999
The Hitcher: How Do These Movies Get Made?
Mar 04, 2003
The Room
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Break
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Uncle Howard
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The Edge
Aug 23, 1989
Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
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The Best of Max Headroom
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Michelangelo: The Heart and the Stone
Nov 01, 2012
Emperor
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Floris
Oct 05, 1969
Lexx
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Alias
Sep 30, 2001
Smallville
Oct 16, 2001
V Graham Norton
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De Wereld Draait Door
Oct 10, 2005
Zomer Draait Door, De
Jun 02, 2007
Merlin
Apr 26, 1998
True Blood
Sep 07, 2008
The Last Kingdom
Oct 10, 2015
Metal Hurlant Chronicles
Oct 27, 2012
Galavant
Jan 04, 2015
Floris von Rosemund
Aug 09, 1975
Duel In De Diepte
Oct 02, 1979
Flight of the Storks
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Channel Zero
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The 10th Kingdom
Feb 27, 2000
Salem's Lot
Jun 20, 2004
Mata Hari
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Porters
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The Real History of Science Fiction
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The Max Headroom Show
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