Rutger Hauer

Rutger Hauer

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.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1944-01-23
Place of Birth: Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Movies List of Rutger Hauer

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Blade Runner

1982 Movie
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Sin City

2005 Movie
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Batman Begins

2005 Movie
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Ladyhawke

1985 Movie
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Soldier of Orange

1977 Movie
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Wedlock

1991 Movie
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Hostile Waters

1997 Movie
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Turkish Delight

1973 Movie
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Happiness Runs

2010 Movie
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Fatherland

1994 Movie
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Scorcher

2002 Movie
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The Blood of Heroes

1989 Movie
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Nighthawks

1981 Movie
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Wanted: Dead or Alive

1987 Movie
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The Wilby Conspiracy

1975 Movie
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Escape from Sobibor

1987 Movie
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The Osterman Weekend

1983 Movie
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Flesh + Blood

1985 Movie
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The Hitcher

1986 Movie
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Split Second

1992 Movie
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Spetters

1980 Movie
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New World Disorder

1999 Movie
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Katie Tippel

1975 Movie
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Tactical Assault

1998 Movie
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Blind Side

1993 Movie
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Wilder

2000 Movie
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Dead Tone

2007 Movie
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The 5th Execution

2011 Movie
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Precious Find

1996 Movie
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Eureka

1983 Movie
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On a Moonlit Night

1989 Movie
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Barbarossa

2009 Movie
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Deathline

1997 Movie
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Portable Life

2011 Movie
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Omega Doom

1996 Movie
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Cold Blood

1975 Movie
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Crossworlds

1996 Movie
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Surviving the Game

1994 Movie
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Heilige Jeanne

1978 Movie
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Hobo with a Shotgun

2011 Movie
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The Rite

2011 Movie
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Moving McAllister

2007 Movie
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Past Midnight

1992 Movie
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Bride Flight

2008 Movie
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Nostradamus

1994 Movie
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Minotaur

2006 Movie
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Blind Fury

1989 Movie
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Pastorale 1943

1978 Movie
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Black Butterflies

2011 Movie
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All for One

2011 Movie
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Flying Virus

2001 Movie
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Chanel Solitaire

1981 Movie
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Tempesta

2004 Movie
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Arctic Blue

1993 Movie
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Bleeders

1997 Movie
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Fatal Error

1979 Movie
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A Breed Apart

1984 Movie
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The Cardboard Village

2011 Movie
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Cyrano de Bergerac

1975 Movie
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Lying in Wait

2001 Movie
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Magic Flute Diaries

2008 Movie
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The Reverend

2011 Movie
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Beyond Justice

1992 Movie
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Life's a Beach

2010 Movie
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The Future

2013 Movie
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Dracula 3D

2012 Movie
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Voyage

1993 Movie
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Partners in Crime

2000 Movie
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Mysteries

1978 Movie
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Real Playing Game

2013 Movie
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Starting Over

2007 Movie
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Never Enough

2004 Movie
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The Letters

2014 Movie
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Drawing Home

2017 Movie
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Blast

1997 Movie
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Eating Pattern

1997 Movie
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2047: Sights of Death

2014 Movie
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Warrior Angels

2002 Movie
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Spoon

2011 Movie
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Cancer Rising

1975 Movie
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Admiral

2015 Movie
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Rond Floris

1969 Movie
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Requiem 2019

2011 Movie
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Blond, Blue Eyes

2006 Movie
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Starfish Tango

Movie
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Es begann bei Tiffany

1979 Movie
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3

2009 Movie
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The Ruby Ring

1997 Movie
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Unity

2015 Movie
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Dazzle

2009 Movie
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Francesco

2014 Movie
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Wax - We Are The X

2016 Movie
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Mr. Stitch

1995 Movie
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Genderness

2016 Movie
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Gangsterdam

2017 Movie
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Desert Law

1991 Movie
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Bone Daddy

1998 Movie
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Like Tears in Rain

2024 Movie
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Iron Mask

2019 Movie
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Dandelions

1974 Movie
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Corbin Nash

2018 Movie
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Clones

2015 Movie
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Mentor

2006 Movie
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Dracula III: Legacy

2005 Movie
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Max Havelaar

1976 Movie
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Naked and Lustful

1976 Movie
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Blood of the Innocent

1994 Movie
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The Broken Key

2017 Movie
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Samson

2018 Movie
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The Sonata

2018 Movie
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24 Hours to Live

2017 Movie
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Mariette in Ecstasy

1996 Movie
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The Sisters Brothers

2018 Movie
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Simon Magus

1999 Movie
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The Room

2001 Movie
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Break

2020 Movie
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Uncle Howard

2017 Movie
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The Edge

1989 Movie