Cast

Rutger Hauer

Acting

Cast

Rutger Hauer

Known for

Acting

Born

1944-01-23

From

Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands

Died

2019-07-19

Also known as راتخر هاور, رودگر هاور, Rutger Oelsen Hauer

Biography

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.

Rutger Hauer

Rutger Hauer

Biography

Batman Begins

Blade Runner

Iron Mask

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Sin City

Samson

Mysteries

The Sisters Brothers

The Hitcher

Fifty Shades of Erotica

24 Hours to Live

Ladyhawke

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Naked and Lustful

Life's a Beach

Blast

Dracula 3D

The Rite

Fatherland

Gangsterdam

Eureka

Goal II: Living the Dream

Tonight at Noon

Deathline

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Split Second

Admiral

Bloodhounds of Broadway

Precious Find

Nighthawks

Bleeders

Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich

Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal

The Poseidon Adventure

The Mill and the Cross

Flesh + Blood

The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power

Warrior Angels

Spetters

Knockin' on Heaven's Door

The Wilby Conspiracy

Corbin Nash

Tempesta

Moonage Daydream

Hobo with a Shotgun

Mariette in Ecstasy

Escape from Sobibor

On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'

The Heineken Kidnapping

Valerian

A Breed Apart

The Blood of Heroes

Partners in Crime

Black Butterflies

The Sonata

Surviving the Game

Blind Fury

The Osterman Weekend

Fatal Error

Blood of the Innocent

Clones

Arctic Blue

Turkish Delight

The Best of Max Headroom

Wanted: Dead or Alive

The Rhapsody

The Future

The Broken Key

Blind Side

Beyond Justice

On a Moonlit Night

The Letters

2047: Sights of Death

The Edge

Rond Floris

Flying Virus

Tactical Assault