Rutger Hauer
Rutger Hauer
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.
Acted Movies
Director: Jacques Audiard
Writers: Thomas Bidegain,
Cast: Allison Tolman, Carol Kane, Jake Gyllenhaal, Joaquin Phoenix, John C. Reilly, Patrice Cossonneau, Rebecca Root, Riz Ahmed, Rutger Hauer, Zac Abbott,
Director: Luc Besson
Writers: Luc Besson,
Cast: Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Dane DeHaan, Elizabeth Debicki, Ethan Hawke, Herbie Hancock, John Goodman, Kris Wu, Rihanna, Rutger Hauer,
Director: Jason Eisener
Writers: John Davies,
Cast: Brian Downey, David Brunt, Gregory Smith, Jeremy Akerman, Molly Dunsworth, Nick Bateman, Pasha Ebrahimi, Peter Simas, Robb Wells, Rutger Hauer,
Director: Mikael Håfström
Writers: Michael Petroni,
Cast: Alice Braga, Andrea Calligari, Anthony Hopkins, Arianna Veronesi, Ciarán Hinds, Colin O'Donoghue, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Marta Gastini, Rutger Hauer, Toby Jones,
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writers: Christopher Nolan,
Cast: Christian Bale, Cillian Murphy, Gary Oldman, Katie Holmes, Ken Watanabe, Liam Neeson, Mark Boone Junior, Michael Caine, Rutger Hauer, Tom Wilkinson,
Director: Frank Miller
Writers: Robert Rodriguez,
Cast: Alexis Bledel, Benicio del Toro, Bruce Willis, Clive Owen, Jessica Alba, Michael Madsen, Mickey Rourke, Nick Stahl, Powers Boothe, Rutger Hauer,
Director: Christopher Menaul
Writers: Ron Hutchinson,
Cast: Bob Mason, Clive Russell, Jean Marsh, John Shrapnel, John Woodvine, Michael Kitchen, Miranda Richardson, Neil Dudgeon, Peter Vaughan, Rutger Hauer,
Director: Roger Christian
Writers: Knut Boeser,
Cast: Amanda Plummer, Anthony Higgins, Assumpta Serna, Diana Quick, F. Murray Abraham, Julia Ormond, Maia Morgenstern, Michael Gough, Rutger Hauer, Tchéky Karyo,
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
Writers: Eric Bernt,
Cast: Bob Minor, Charles S. Dutton, F. Murray Abraham, Gary Busey, George Fisher, Ice-T, Jeff Corey, John C. McGinley, Rutger Hauer, William McNamara,
Director: Tony Maylam
Writers: Gary Scott Thompson,
Cast: Alastair Duncan, Alun Armstrong, Ian Dury, Kim Cattrall, Michael J. Pollard, Pete Postlethwaite, Roberta Eaton, Rutger Hauer, Steven Hartley, Tony Steedman,
Director: Lewis Teague
Writers: Broderick Miller,
Cast: Basil Wallace, Belle Avery, Denis Forest, Glenn Plummer, Grand L. Bush, James Remar, Joan Chen, Mimi Rogers, Rutger Hauer, Stephen Tobolowsky,
Director: Jack Gold
Writers: Reginald Rose,
Cast: Alan Arkin, Emil Wolk, Hartmut Becker, Jack Shepherd, Jason Norman, Joanna Pacula, Linal Haft, Robert Gwilym, Rutger Hauer, Simon Gregor,
Director: Robert Harmon
Writers: Eric Red,
Cast: Armin Shimerman, Billy Green Bush, C. Thomas Howell, Henry Darrow, Jack Thibeau, Jeffrey DeMunn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John M. Jackson, Jon Van Ness, Rutger Hauer,
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Writers: Gerard Soeteman,
Cast: Brion James, Bruno Kirby, Fernando Hilbeck, Jack Thompson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John Dennis Johnston, Ronald Lacey, Rutger Hauer, Susan Tyrrell, Tom Burlinson,
Director: Richard Donner
Writers: Michael Thomas,
Cast: Alfred Molina, Charles Borromel, Giancarlo Prete, John Wood, Ken Hutchison, Leo McKern, Loris Loddi, Matthew Broderick, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rutger Hauer,
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Writers: Alan Sharp,
Cast: Cassie Yates, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Starr, Craig T. Nelson, Dennis Hopper, Helen Shaver, John Hurt, Meg Foster, Rutger Hauer, Sandy McPeak,
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Writers: Paul Mayersberg,
Cast: Cavan Kendall, Corin Redgrave, Ed Lauter, Gene Hackman, Helena Kallianiotes, Jane Lapotaire, Joe Pesci, Mickey Rourke, Rutger Hauer, Theresa Russell,
Director: Ridley Scott
Writers: David Webb Peoples,
Cast: Brion James, Daryl Hannah, Edward James Olmos, Harrison Ford, Joanna Cassidy, Joe Turkel, M. Emmet Walsh, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, William Sanderson,
Director: Gary Nelson
Writers: David Shaber,
Cast: Billy Dee Williams, E. Brian Dean, Hilarie Thompson, Joe Spinell, Lindsay Wagner, Nigel Davenport, Persis Khambatta, Rutger Hauer, Sylvester Stallone, Walter Mathews,
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Writers: Kees Holierhoek,
Cast: Belinda Meuldijk, Derek de Lint, Dolf de Vries, Eddy Habbema, Huib Rooymans, Jeroen Krabbé, Lex van Delden, Peter Faber, Rijk de Gooyer, Rutger Hauer,
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Writers: Gerard Soeteman,
Cast: Bert Dijkstra, Dick Scheffer, Dolf de Vries, Hans Boskamp, Manfred de Graaf, Marjol Flore, Monique van de Ven, Rutger Hauer, Tonny Huurdeman, Wim van den Brink,