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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.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1944-01-23
- event Death Date 2019-07-19
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 12
- info Birth Place Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Rutger Hauer
7.9
Blade Runner
1982-06-25
7.7
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
1997-02-20
7.5
Sin City
2005-04-01
7.7
Batman Begins
2005-06-10
7.1
Ladyhawke
1985-03-27
7.1
Soldier of Orange
1977-09-22
5.7
Wedlock
1991-05-10
5.7
Hostile Waters
1997-10-18
5.6
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992-07-24
4.5
The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point
2006-06-27
6.7
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2002-12-31
6.9
Turkish Delight
1973-02-22
4.2
Happiness Runs
2010-05-14
6.2
Fatherland
1994-11-26
4.5
Scorcher
2002-10-04
5.8
The Blood of Heroes
1989-10-19
6.4
Nighthawks
1981-03-17
0
Isip the Warrior
5.9
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1987-01-16
6.5
The Wilby Conspiracy
1975-02-01
0
Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling
2007-12-03
0
Tonight at Noon
7.3
Escape from Sobibor
1987-04-12
5.6
The Osterman Weekend
1983-10-14
6.6
Flesh + Blood
1985-08-30
6.9
The Hitcher
1986-01-17
5.9
Split Second
1992-05-01
6
Goal II: Living the Dream
2007-02-09
6.5
Spetters
1980-02-28
5.2
The Poseidon Adventure
2005-11-20
3.5
New World Disorder
1999-12-03
6.6
Katie Tippel
1975-03-06
4.8
Tactical Assault
1998-04-07
5.4
Blind Side
1993-01-30
4
Wilder
2000-11-01
4.7
Dead Tone
2007-05-16
3.5
The 5th Execution
2011-03-24
5.7
Precious Find
1996-06-26
5.2
Eureka
1983-05-01
7.2
On a Moonlit Night
1989-09-05
5
Barbarossa
2009-10-09
5
Deathline
1997-09-26
0
Portable Life
2011-09-01
4.6
Omega Doom
1996-10-21
5.6
Cold Blood
1975-07-18
5.1
Crossworlds
1996-02-14
6.1
Surviving the Game
1994-04-15
0
Heilige Jeanne
1978-03-24
5.9
Hobo with a Shotgun
2011-05-06
6.1
The Rite
2011-01-28
5
Moving McAllister
2007-09-13
5.2
Past Midnight
1992-05-03
6.9
Bride Flight
2008-10-15
5.8
Nostradamus
1994-08-18
5.2
The Hunt for Eagle One
2006-01-17
4.9
Minotaur
2006-03-11
6.6
Blind Fury
1989-08-17
5
Pastorale 1943
1978-04-20
5.8
Black Butterflies
2011-02-06
5.9
All for One
2011-02-10
5.7
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989-11-03
3.9
Flying Virus
2001-12-31
6.5
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
1988-09-02
3.8
Chanel Solitaire
1981-01-01
7.4
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997-06-22
7.9
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
2007-12-18
6.4
The Mill and the Cross
2011-03-18
6.1
The Heineken Kidnapping
2011-10-27
5.3
Tempesta
2004-05-10
4.5
Arctic Blue
1993-01-01
4.4
Hemoglobina
1997-07-31
6
Fatal Error
1979-09-20
5.8
A Breed Apart
1984-06-01
5.7
The Cardboard Village
2011-10-07
0
Cyrano de Bergerac
1975-10-11
4.8
Lying in Wait
2001-03-15
0
Magic Flute Diaries
2008-04-15
4.1
The Reverend
2011-08-03
3.8
Beyond Justice
1992-12-02
2.5
Life's a Beach
2010-01-01
5.3
The Future
2013-09-06
3.4
Dracula 3D
2012-11-09
5
Voyage
1993-06-01
4.4
Agent Ranjid Saves the World
2012-10-18
5.7
Partners in Crime
2000-01-07
6.8
The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy
2013-09-24
5.7
Mysteries
1978-09-07
6.8
More Blood, More Heart: The Making of Hobo with a Shotgun
2011-07-04
4.2
Real Playing Game
2013-08-28
4
Starting Over
2007-11-10
5.6
Woman Between Wolf and Dog
1979-06-04
10
Never Enough
2004-11-24
5.7
The Letters
2014-02-23
0
Drawing Home
2017-12-01
5
The Beans of Egypt, Maine
1994-11-23
3.9
Blast
1997-03-13
7
Eating Pattern
1997-09-04
5.2
Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood
1996-01-08
0
The Revenge of the Dead Indians
1993-01-01
6.2
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
1994-06-12
0
The Prince of Motor City
2008-07-09
4
Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal
2001-05-13
2.9
2047: Sights of Death
2014-06-13
4.4
Warrior Angels
2002-10-11
3.2
Mirror Wars: Reflection One
2005-09-01
7.2
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
2000-07-15
0
Spoon
2011-01-01
5.2
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
2015-01-09
6.3
Cancer Rising
1975-09-18
6.5
Admiral
2015-01-29
10
Rond Floris
1969-10-15
7.3
Inside the Third Reich
1982-05-09
0
Requiem 2019
2011-01-01
6.5
Blond, Blue Eyes
2006-10-04
0
Starfish Tango
4
Es begann bei Tiffany
1979-04-30
7
The Worlds of Philip K. Dick
2016-03-02
0
3
2009-08-11
5.5
The Ruby Ring
1997-11-26
7.5
Unity
2015-08-12
6.3
Behind the White Glasses
2015-09-21
5.8
Dazzle
2009-01-01
7
Francesco
2014-12-08
7.2
Wax - We Are The X
2016-03-31
5.1
Mr. Stitch
1995-11-20
0
Genderness
2016-12-31
5.3
Gangsterdam
2017-03-29
5.4
Desert Law
1991-03-19
5.4
Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the Fourth Reich
2016-10-03
4.4
Bone Daddy
1998-07-19
8
Like Tears in Rain
2024-09-22
6.7
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
2017-07-20
6.2
Iron Mask
2019-08-16
4.2
Dandelions
1974-10-11
4.6
Corbin Nash
2018-04-20
6
Clones
2015-07-04
8
Mentor
2006-04-28
5
Dracula III: Legacy
2005-07-12
6
Max Havelaar
1976-09-09
5.1
Naked and Lustful
1976-11-01
4.5
Blood of the Innocent
1994-01-01
3.4
The Broken Key
2017-11-16
5.8
Samson
2018-02-16
4.8
The Sonata
2018-11-15
5.9
24 Hours to Live
2017-10-26
0
Mariette in Ecstasy
1996-07-04
6.1
The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
2002-03-07
6.8
The Sisters Brothers
2018-09-19
7
Fifty Shades of Erotica
2015-04-13
7.3
Simon Magus
1999-02-17
0
The Hitcher: How Do These Movies Get Made?
2003-03-04
6
The Room
2001-04-03
5.5
Break
2020-04-20
6.5
Uncle Howard
2017-03-10
2
The Edge
1989-08-23
0
Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
2004-01-22
0
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
2021-05-03
7.7
Floris
1969-10-05
7
Lexx
1997-04-18
6.8
Alias
2001-09-30
8.2
Smallville
2001-10-16
5
V Graham Norton
2002-05-06
5.6
De Wereld Draait Door
2005-10-10
0
Zomer Draait Door, De
2007-06-02
7.6
The 10th Kingdom
2000-02-27
6.8
Merlin
1998-04-26
7.6
True Blood
2008-09-07
8.3
The Last Kingdom
2015-10-10
6.3
Metal Hurlant Chronicles
2012-10-27
7.3
Galavant
2015-01-04
7
Floris von Rosemund
1975-08-09
5.5
Duel In De Diepte
1979-10-02
6.7
Flight of the Storks
2013-01-21
7.1
Channel Zero
2016-10-11
7.6
The 10th Kingdom
2000-02-27
5.7
Salem's Lot
2004-06-20
5.8
Mata Hari
2017-03-20
8.5
Porters
2017-09-20
6.8
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014-04-19
6.5
For Queen and Country
1979-01-13