Rutger Hauer
Birthday: 1944-01-23
Place of Birth: Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands
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, 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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Blade Runner
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Knockin' on Heaven's Door
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Sin City
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Batman Begins
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Ladyhawke
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Hostile Waters
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The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
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Turkish Delight
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Happiness Runs
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Fatherland
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The Blood of Heroes
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Nighthawks
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Escape from Sobibor
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Flesh + Blood
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The Hitcher
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Goal II: Living the Dream
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Tactical Assault
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Blind Side
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Wilder
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Dead Tone
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The 5th Execution
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Precious Find
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Eureka
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Barbarossa
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Deathline
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Portable Life
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Omega Doom
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Cold Blood
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Crossworlds
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Surviving the Game
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Heilige Jeanne
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Hobo with a Shotgun
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Bride Flight
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Nostradamus
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The Hunt for Eagle One
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Minotaur
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Blind Fury
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Pastorale 1943
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Black Butterflies
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Bloodhounds of Broadway
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Flying Virus
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The Legend of the Holy Drinker
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The Heineken Kidnapping
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Tempesta
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Arctic Blue
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Bleeders
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Fatal Error
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A Breed Apart
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The Cardboard Village
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Cyrano de Bergerac
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Lying in Wait
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Magic Flute Diaries
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The Reverend
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Beyond Justice
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Life's a Beach
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The Future
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Dracula 3D
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Voyage
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Agent Ranjid Saves the World
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Partners in Crime
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Mysteries
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More Blood, More Heart: The Making of Hobo with a Shotgun
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Real Playing Game
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Starting Over
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Woman Between Wolf and Dog
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Never Enough
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The Letters
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Drawing Home
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The Beans of Egypt, Maine
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Blast
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Eating Pattern
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Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood
Very insightful BBC documentary about Paul Verhoeven, tracking his career up to Showgirls. The prog...
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The Revenge of the Dead Indians
This is a full-length documentary honoring the life and work of American composer and artist John Ca...
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Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
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The Prince of Motor City
A modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet set in Detroit....
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Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal
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2047: Sights of Death
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Warrior Angels
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Mirror Wars: Reflection One
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On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
This is the rare UK Channel 4 documentary about Blade Runner, giving insights into it's history with...
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Spoon
A thriller with supernatural overtones about a man with a medical condition that causes him to black...
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The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
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Cancer Rising
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Admiral
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Blond, Blue Eyes
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The Worlds of Philip K. Dick
An immersion into the life and writings of the extraordinary American science fiction writer Philip ...
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3
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The Ruby Ring
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Unity
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Behind the White Glasses
It is a musical portrait that shines a spotlight on unknown aspects of the creative, visionary and g...
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Francesco
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Wax - We Are The X
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Mr. Stitch
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Genderness
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Gangsterdam
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Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich
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Bone Daddy
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
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Iron Mask
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Dandelions
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Corbin Nash
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Clones
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Mentor
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Dracula III: Legacy
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Max Havelaar: or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
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Naked and Lustful
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Blood of the Innocent
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The Broken Key
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Samson
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The Sonata
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24 Hours to Live
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Mariette in Ecstasy
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The Sisters Brothers
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Fifty Shades of Erotica
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Simon Magus
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The Room
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Break
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The Edge
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Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
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Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
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Emperor
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All for One
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The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
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