Acting · Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands · Born January 23, 1944
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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2022
as Self (archive voice)
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2021
as Self (archive footage)
MovieBreak
2020
as Ray
MovieIron Mask
2019
as English Ambassador
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2018
as Richard Marlowe
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2018
as The Commodore
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2018
as Stranger
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2018
as Manoah
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2017
as Carl Rungius
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2017
as Professor Moonlight
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2017
as Frank
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2017
as Tillman
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2017
as President of the World State Federation
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2017
as Dolph
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2017
as Стольбаккен
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2016
TVChannel Zero
2016
as Joseph Peach
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2016
as Oskar Halminski
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2016
as Aron Mulder
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2016
as Self - Actor
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2015
as Ravn
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2015
as Self
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2015
as Narrator (voice)
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2015
as Dr. Richards
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2015
as (archive footage)
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as Maarten Tromp
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2015
as Kingsley
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2014
as Padre di Francesco
TVFrancesco
2014
as Padre di Francesco
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2014
as Colonel Asimov
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2014
as Self
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2014
as Benjamin Praagh
MovieThe Future
2013
as Maciste
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2013
as Steve Batier
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2013
as Sonderman
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2012
as Abraham van Helsing
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2012
as Michelangelo
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2012
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2012
as Freek van Dyk
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2011
as Alfred Heineken
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2011
as Sacristan
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2011
as Antonio
MovieThe Reverend
2011
as The Withstander
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2011
as Himself
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2011
as Hobo
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2011
as Khant
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2011
as Peter Bruegel
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2011
as Niemeyer
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2011
as Abraham Jonker
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2011
as Istvan Kovak
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2011
as Victor Spoon
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2011
MovieHappiness Runs
2010
as Insley
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2010
as Jean-Luc
MovieBarbarossa
2009
as Federico Barbarossa
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2009
as Father (voice)
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2009
MovieThe Rhapsody
2008
MovieBride Flight
2008
as Old Frank
TVTrue Blood
2008
as Niall Brigant
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2008
as William Hamilton
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2008
as Dr. Richard Nagel
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2007
as Self
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2007
as Self
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2007
as Peter Rossen
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2007
as Maxwell McAllister
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2007
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2007
as Det. John Criton
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as Rudi van der Merwe
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2006
as Self
MovieThe Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point
2006
as Gen. Frank Lewis
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2006
as Sanford Pollard
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2006
as Cyrnan
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2006
as Gen. Frank Lewis
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2005
as Bishop August Schmidt
TVDe Wereld Draait Door
2005
as Self
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2005
as Mysterious Man
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2005
as Dracula
MovieBatman Begins
2005
as Earle
MovieSin City
2005
as Cardinal Roark
MovieFloris
2004
as Floris (archive footage from Floris, 1969)
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2004
as Sebastian
TVSalem's Lot
2004
as Kurt Barlow
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2004
MovieTempesta
2004
as Van Beuningen
MovieAlpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
2004
as Self
MovieThe Hitcher: How Do These Movies Get Made?
2003
MovieConfessions of a Dangerous Mind
2002
as Keeler
MovieWarrior Angels
2002
as Grekkor
MovieScorcher
2002
as US President Nelson
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2002
as Self
MovieThe Bankers Of God: The Calvi Affair
2002
as Paul Marcinkus
MovieFlying Virus
2001
as Ezekial
MovieThe Last Words of Dutch Schultz
2001
as Dutch Schultz(voice)
TVSmallville
2001
as Morgan Edge
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2001
as Anthony Geiger
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2001
as Copilot MacIntosh
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2001
MovieLying in Wait
2001
as Keith Miller
MovieWilder
2000
as Dr. Sam Dennis Charney
MovieOn the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
2000
as Self
TVThe 10th Kingdom
2000
as Huntsman
MoviePartners in Crime
2000
as Gene Reardon
MovieNew World Disorder
1999
as David Marx
MovieSimon Magus
1999
as Count Albrecht, the Squire
MovieBone Daddy
1998
as Palmer
TVMerlin
1998
as King Vortingern
MovieTactical Assault
1998
as Capitaine John 'Doc' Holiday
MovieThe Ruby Ring
1997
as Patrick Collins
MovieHostile Waters
1997
as Cap. Britanov
MovieDeathline
1997
as John Wade
MovieEating Pattern
1997
as Bog
MovieBleeders
1997
as Dr. Marlowe
MovieThe Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997
as John Thornton
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1997
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MovieBlast
1997
as Leo
MovieKnockin' on Heaven's Door
1997
as Curtiz
MovieOmega Doom
1996
as Omega Doom
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1996
as Chaplan
MoviePrecious Find
1996
as Armond Crille
MovieCrossworlds
1996
as A.T.
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1996
as Himself
MovieMr. Stitch
1995
as Doctor Rue Wakeman
MovieFatherland
1994
as SS-Sturmbannführer Xavier March
MovieThe Beans of Egypt, Maine
1994
as Rueben Bean
MovieNostradamus
1994
as The Mystic Monk
MovieAmelia Earhart: The Final Flight
1994
as Fred Noonan
MovieSurviving the Game
1994
as Burns
MovieBlood of the Innocent
1994
as Dr. Lem
MovieVoyage
1993
as Morgan Norvell
MovieBlind Side
1993
as Jake Shell
MovieArctic Blue
1993
as Ben Corbett
MovieThe Revenge of the Dead Indians
1993
as Himself
MovieBeyond Justice
1992
as Tom Burton
MovieBuffy the Vampire Slayer
1992
as Lothos
MoviePast Midnight
1992
as Ben Jordan
MovieSplit Second
1992
as Stone
MovieWedlock
1991
as Frank Warren
TVThe Law of the Desert
1991
as Tom Burton
MovieBloodhounds of Broadway
1989
as The Brain
MovieThe Blood of Heroes
1989
as Sallow
MovieOn a Moonlit Night
1989
as John Knott
MovieThe Edge
1989
as Sheriff Emil Abel (Indian Poker)
MovieBlind Fury
1989
as Nick Parker
MovieThe Legend of the Holy Drinker
1988
as Andreas Kartak
MovieEscape from Sobibor
1987
as Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky
MovieThe Best of Max Headroom
1987
as Self
MovieWanted: Dead or Alive
1987
as Nick Randall
MovieThe Hitcher
1986
as John Ryder
MovieFlesh + Blood
1985
as Martin
TVThe Max Headroom Show
1985
as Self
MovieLadyhawke
1985
as Captain Etienne Navarre
MovieA Breed Apart
1984
as Jim Malden
MovieThe Osterman Weekend
1983
as John Tanner
MovieEureka
1983
as Claude Maillot Van Horn
MovieBlade Runner
1982
as Batty
TVInside the Third Reich
1982
as Albert Speer
TVAmerican Playhouse
1982
as The Brain
MovieChanel Solitaire
1981
as Etienne de Balsan
MovieNighthawks
1981
as Wulfgar
MovieSpetters
1980
as Gerrit Witkamp
TVDuel In De Diepte
1979
as John van der Velde
MovieFatal Error
1979
as Rinus de Gier
MovieWoman Between Wolf and Dog
1979
as Adriaan
MovieEs begann bei Tiffany
1979
as Ryder
TVFor Queen and Country
1979
as Erik Lanshof
MovieMysteries
1978
as Simonsen aka Johan Frederik Nagel
MoviePastorale 1943
1978
as August Schultz
MovieHeilige Jeanne
1978
as Dunois
MovieSoldier of Orange
1977
as Erik Lanshof
MovieNaked and Lustful
1976
MovieMax Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
1976
as Lieutenant Duclari
MovieCyrano de Bergerac
1975
as de Valvert
MovieCancer Rising
1975
as Pierre
TVFloris von Rosemund
1975
as Floris
MovieCold Blood
1975
as Chris
MovieKatie Tippel
1975
as Hugo
MovieThe Wilby Conspiracy
1975
as Blane Van Niekirk
MovieDandelions
1974
as Rick
MovieTurkish Delight
1973
as Erik Vonk
MovieRond Floris
1969
as Self
TVFloris
1969
as Floris van Rosemondt
TVOmnibus
1967
as Narrator (voice)
Isip the Warrior
as Catholic Priest
Tonight at Noon
as Diego
Starfish Tango
as Self
