Rutger Hauer

Also Known As: راتخر هاور, رودگر هاور

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.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands

Birthday: January 23, 1944

Deathday: July 19, 2019

Adult: No

Gender: Male

Popularity:

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Known For:

Blade Runner
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Sin City
Batman Begins
Ladyhawke
Soldier of Orange
Wedlock
Hostile Waters
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Turkish Delight
Happiness Runs
Fatherland
Scorcher
The Blood of Heroes
Nighthawks
Isip the Warrior
Wanted: Dead or Alive
The Wilby Conspiracy
Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling
Tonight at Noon
Escape from Sobibor
The Osterman Weekend
Flesh + Blood
The Hitcher
Split Second
Goal II: Living the Dream
Spetters
The Poseidon Adventure
New World Disorder
Katie Tippel
Tactical Assault
Blind Side
Wilder
Dead Tone
The 5th Execution
Precious Find
Eureka
On a Moonlit Night
Barbarossa
Deathline
Portable Life
Omega Doom
Cold Blood
Crossworlds
Surviving the Game
Heilige Jeanne
Hobo with a Shotgun
The Rite
Moving McAllister
Past Midnight
Bride Flight
Nostradamus
The Hunt for Eagle One
Minotaur
Blind Fury
Pastorale 1943
Black Butterflies
All for One
Bloodhounds of Broadway
Flying Virus
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
Chanel Solitaire
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
The Mill and the Cross
The Heineken Kidnapping
Tempesta
Arctic Blue
Bleeders
Fatal Error
A Breed Apart
The Cardboard Village
Cyrano de Bergerac
Lying in Wait
Magic Flute Diaries
The Reverend
Beyond Justice
Life's a Beach
The Future
Dracula 3D
Voyage
Agent Ranjid Saves the World
Partners in Crime
The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy
Mysteries
More Blood, More Heart: The Making of Hobo with a Shotgun
Real Playing Game
Starting Over
Woman Between Wolf and Dog
Never Enough
The Letters
Drawing Home
The Beans of Egypt, Maine
Blast
Eating Pattern
Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood
The Revenge of the Dead Indians
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
The Prince of Motor City
Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal
2047: Sights of Death
Warrior Angels
Mirror Wars: Reflection One
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
Spoon
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
Cancer Rising
Admiral
Rond Floris
Inside the Third Reich
Requiem 2019
Blond, Blue Eyes
Starfish Tango
Es begann bei Tiffany
The Worlds of Philip K. Dick
3
The Ruby Ring
Unity
Behind the White Glasses
Dazzle
Francesco
Wax - We Are The X
Mr. Stitch
Genderness
Gangsterdam
Desert Law
Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich
Bone Daddy
Like Tears in Rain
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Iron Mask
Dandelions
Corbin Nash
Clones
Mentor
Dracula III: Legacy
Max Havelaar
Naked and Lustful
Blood of the Innocent
The Broken Key
Samson
The Sonata
24 Hours to Live
Mariette in Ecstasy
The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
The Sisters Brothers
Fifty Shades of Erotica
Simon Magus
The Hitcher: How Do These Movies Get Made?
The Room
Break
Uncle Howard
The Edge
Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood