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Rutger Hauer

Rutger Hauer

Actor · Born 1944-01-23 · Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands

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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…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Batman Begins (2005) — Earle
  2. Blade Runner (1982) — Batty
  3. Sin City (2005) — Cardinal Roark
  4. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) — President of the World State Federation
  5. Smallville (2001) — Morgan Edge
  6. The Rite (2011) — Istvan Kovak
  7. The Sisters Brothers (2018) — The Commodore
  8. True Blood (2008) — Niall Brigant
  9. The Last Kingdom (2015) — Ravn
  10. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) — Keeler
  11. Ladyhawke (1985) — Captain Etienne Navarre
  12. The Hitcher (1986) — John Ryder
  13. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) — Lothos
  14. 24 Hours to Live (2017) — Frank
  15. Alias (2001) — Anthony Geiger
  16. Goal II: Living the Dream (2007) — Rudi van der Merwe
  17. Hobo with a Shotgun (2011) — Hobo
  18. Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997) — Curtiz
  19. Iron Mask (2019) — English Ambassador
  20. Blind Fury (1989) — Nick Parker
  21. Nighthawks (1981) — Wulfgar
  22. Flesh + Blood (1985) — Martin
  23. Split Second (1992) — Stone
  24. Merlin (1998) — King Vortingern
  25. Channel Zero (2016) — Joseph Peach
  26. Gangsterdam (2017) — Dolph
  27. Moonage Daydream (2022) — Self (archive voice)
  28. The 10th Kingdom (2000) — Huntsman
  29. Samson (2018) — Manoah
  30. The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power (2015) — King Zakour
  31. Dracula 3D (2012) — Abraham van Helsing
  32. Surviving the Game (1994) — Burns
  33. Turkish Delight (1973) — Erik Vonk
  34. Escape from Sobibor (1987) — Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky
  35. Admiral (2015) — Maarten Tromp
  36. Salem's Lot (2004) — Kurt Barlow
  37. The Osterman Weekend (1983) — John Tanner
  38. Wedlock (1991) — Frank Warren
  39. Soldier of Orange (1977) — Erik Lanshof
  40. Galavant (2015) — Kingsley

Directed

  1. The Room (2001) — Director
  2. Requiem 2019 (2011) — Director
  3. Starfish Tango — Director