10.0
10.0
Never Enough
2004
as Sebastian
Rutger Hauer
Also known as: Rutger Oelsen Hauer
Acting
Born:January 23, 1944
Died:July 19, 2019(aged 75)
Birthplace:Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands
Nationality:Kingdom of the Netherlands
Height:6'1" (185 cm)
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CommunityBiography
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.
Filmography (155 movies)
10.0
10.0
Rond Floris
1969
as Self
8.0
8.0
Mentor
2006
as Sanford Pollard
8.0
8.0
3
2009
as Father (voice)
7.9
7.9
Blade Runner
1982
as Batty
7.9
7.9
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
2007
as Self
7.7
7.7
Batman Begins
2005
as Earle
7.7
7.7
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
1997
as Curtiz
7.5
7.5
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
2000
as Self
7.5
7.5
Sin City
2005
as Cardinal Roark
7.4
7.4
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997
as John Thornton
7.3
7.3
Simon Magus
1999
as Count Albrecht, the Squire
7.2
7.2
Escape from Sobibor
1987
as Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky
7.2
7.2
Wax - We Are The X
2016
as Aron Mulder
7.2
7.2
Inside the Third Reich
1982
as Albert Speer
7.0
7.0
Soldier of Orange
1977
as Erik Lanshof
7.0
7.0
Ladyhawke
1985
as Captain Etienne Navarre
7.0
7.0
The Hitcher: How Do These Movies Get Made?
2003
7.0
7.0
Eating Pattern
1997
as Bog
7.0
7.0
Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
2004
as Self
7.0
7.0
Fifty Shades of Erotica
2015
as (archive footage)
7.0
7.0
Francesco
2014
as Padre di Francesco
7.0
7.0
The Hitcher
1986
as John Ryder
6.8
6.8
The Sisters Brothers
2018
as The Commodore
6.8
6.8
The Worlds of Philip K. Dick
2016
as Self - Actor
6.8
6.8
More Blood, More Heart: The Making of Hobo with a Shotgun
2011
as Himself
6.8
6.8
Turkish Delight
1973
as Eric Vonk
6.7
6.7
Blond, Blue Eyes
2006
as Self
6.7
6.7
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2002
as Keeler
6.7
6.7
Bride Flight
2008
as Old Frank
6.6
6.6
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
2017
as President of the World State Federation
6.6
6.6
Flesh + Blood
1985
as Martin
6.5
6.5
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
1988
as Andreas Kartak
6.5
6.5
The Room
2001
Director
6.5
6.5
Blind Fury
1989
as Nick Parker
6.4
6.4
Admiral
2015
as Maarten Tromp
6.4
6.4
Nighthawks
1981
as Wulfgar
6.4
6.4
Partners in Crime
2000
as Gene Reardon
6.4
6.4
The Mill and the Cross
2011
as Peter Bruegel
6.4
6.4
The Wilby Conspiracy
1975
as Blane Van Niekirk
6.4
6.4
Katie Tippel
1975
as Hugo
6.3
6.3
Cancer Rising
1975
as Pierre
6.3
6.3
Behind the White Glasses
2015
as Self
6.3
6.3
Spetters
1980
as Gerrit Witkamp
6.2
6.2
On a Moonlit Night
1989
as John Knott
6.2
6.2
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
1994
as Fred Noonan
6.1
6.1
The Rite
2011
as Istvan Kovak
6.1
6.1
Fatherland
1994
as SS-Sturmbannführer Xavier March
6.1
6.1
The Heineken Kidnapping
2011
as Alfred Heineken
6.1
6.1
Iron Mask
2019
as English Ambassador
6.1
6.1
The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
2002
as Paul Marcinkus
6.1
6.1
Max Havelaar
1976
as Duclari
6.1
6.1
Surviving the Game
1994
as Burns
6.0
6.0
Hostile Waters
1997
as Cap. Britanov
5.9
5.9
Goal II: Living the Dream
2007
as Rudi van der Merwe
5.9
5.9
24 Hours to Live
2017
as Frank
5.9
5.9
Split Second
1992
as Stone
5.9
5.9
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1987
as Nick Randall
5.9
5.9
Hobo with a Shotgun
2011
as Hobo
5.9
5.9
The Blood of Heroes
1989
as Sallow
5.8
5.8
Dazzle
2009
Executive Producer
5.8
5.8
All for One
2011
as Niemeyer
5.8
5.8
Wedlock
1991
as Frank Warren
5.7
5.7
Samson
2018
as Manoah
5.7
5.7
The Cardboard Village
2011
as Sacristan
5.7
5.7
Nostradamus
1994
as The Mystic Monk
5.7
5.7
Fatal Error
1979
as Rinus de Gier
5.6
5.6
The Osterman Weekend
1983
as John Tanner
5.6
5.6
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989
as The Brain
5.6
5.6
Woman Between Wolf and Dog
1979
as Adriaan
5.6
5.6
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992
as Lothos
5.6
5.6
A Breed Apart
1984
as Jim Malden
5.5
5.5
Black Butterflies
2011
as Abraham Jonker
5.5
5.5
The Ruby Ring
1997
as Patrick Collins
5.5
5.5
Clones
2015
as Dr. Richards
5.5
5.5
The Letters
2014
as Benjamin Praagh
5.5
5.5
Break
2020
as Ray
5.4
5.4
Pastorale 1943
1978
as August Schultz
5.4
5.4
Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich
2016
as Oskar Halminski
5.3
5.3
Gangsterdam
2017
as Dolph
5.3
5.3
Precious Find
1996
as Armond Crille
5.3
5.3
Eureka
1983
as Claude Maillot Van Horn
5.3
5.3
Barbarossa
2009
as Federico Barbarossa
5.3
5.3
Blind Side
1993
as Jake Shell
5.2
5.2
Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood
1996
as Himself
5.2
5.2
The Hunt for Eagle One
2006
as Gen. Frank Lewis
5.2
5.2
The Poseidon Adventure
2005
as Bishop August Schmidt
5.2
5.2
The Future
2013
as Maciste
5.1
5.1
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
2015
as King Zakour
5.1
5.1
Crossworlds
1996
as A.T.
5.0
5.0
Deathline
1997
as John Wade
5.0
5.0
The Beans of Egypt, Maine
1994
as Rueben Bean
5.0
5.0
Moving McAllister
2007
as Maxwell McAllister
5.0
5.0
Past Midnight
1992
as Ben Jordan
4.9
4.9
Cold Blood
1975
as Cris
4.9
4.9
Dracula III: Legacy
2005
as Dracula
4.9
4.9
Voyage
1993
as Morgan Norvell
4.8
4.8
Minotaur
2006
as Cyrnan
4.8
4.8
Tempesta
2004
as Van Beuningen
4.8
4.8
Naked and Lustful
1976
4.8
4.8
Tactical Assault
1998
as Capitaine John 'Doc' Holiday
4.8
4.8
Mysteries
1978
as Johan Nagel
4.8
4.8
The Sonata
2018
as Richard Marlowe
4.7
4.7
Dead Tone
2007
as Det. John Criton
4.6
4.6
Mr. Stitch
1995
as Doctor Rue Wakeman
4.6
4.6
Corbin Nash
2018
as Stranger
4.5
4.5
The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point
2006
as Gen. Frank Lewis
4.5
4.5
Scorcher
2002
as US President Nelson
4.5
4.5
Blood of the Innocent
1994
as Dr. Lem
4.5
4.5
Bleeders
1997
as Dr. Marlowe
4.4
4.4
Arctic Blue
1993
as Ben Corbett
4.4
4.4
Omega Doom
1996
as Omega Doom
4.4
4.4
Chanel Solitaire
1981
as Etienne de Balsan
4.3
4.3
Agent Ranjid Saves the World
2012
as Freek van Dyk
4.2
4.2
Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal
2001
as Copilot MacIntosh
4.2
4.2
Bone Daddy
1998
as Palmer
4.2
4.2
Happiness Runs
2010
as Insley
4.1
4.1
Wilder
2000
as Dr. Sam Dennis Charney
4.1
4.1
Lying in Wait
2001
as Keith Miller
4.1
4.1
Blast
1997
as Leo
4.0
4.0
Starting Over
2007
as Peter Rossen
4.0
4.0
Real Playing Game
2013
as Steve Batier
3.8
3.8
Flying Virus
2001
as Ezekial
3.8
3.8
Warrior Angels
2002
as Grekkor
3.7
3.7
The 5th Execution
2011
as Khant
3.6
3.6
Dandelions
1974
as Rick
3.5
3.5
Dracula 3D
2012
as Abraham van Helsing
3.5
3.5
New World Disorder
1999
as David Marx
3.5
3.5
Beyond Justice
1992
as Tom Burton
3.3
3.3
The Reverend
2011
as The Withstander
3.3
3.3
Es begann bei Tiffany
1979
as Ryder
3.3
3.3
The Broken Key
2017
as Professor Moonlight
3.1
3.1
Mirror Wars: Reflection One
2005
as Mysterious Man
2.9
2.9
2047: Sights of Death
2014
as Colonel Asimov
2.6
2.6
Life's a Beach
2010
as Jean-Luc
2.0
2.0
The Edge
1989
as Sheriff Emil Abel (Indian Poker)
The Revenge of the Dead Indians
1993
as Himself
Magic Flute Diaries
2008
as Dr. Richard Nagel
Heilige Jeanne
1978
as Dunois
Mariette in Ecstasy
1996
as Chaplan
Cyrano de Bergerac
1975
as de Valvert
The Prince of Motor City
2008
as William Hamilton
Spoon
2011
as Victor Spoon
Michelangelo: The Heart and the Stone
2012
as Michelangelo
Drawing Home
2017
as Carl Rungius
Requiem 2019
2011
Director
Starfish Tango
TBA
Director
Isip the Warrior
TBA
as Catholic Priest
Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling
2007
as Self
The Best of Max Headroom
1987
as Self
Portable Life
2011
as Antonio
Emperor
2026
as John The Constant
Genderness
2016
Tonight at Noon
TBA
as Diego
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
2021
as Himself (archive footage)
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