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Rutger Hauer
Rutger Hauer
75 years (Jan 23, 1944 – Jul 19, 2019)
Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands
110 Movies
21 TV Shows

Rutger Hauer

Known for
Blade Runner
Batty
Ladyhawke
Captain Etienne Navarre
The Hitcher
John Ryder
Flesh + Blood
Martin
Rutger Hauer was a Dutch actor of magnetic presence who moved from European cinema to Hollywood's most memorable villains. He became famous in his country with the series 'Floris' and with Paul Verhoeven's 'Turkish Delight', before conquering the international screen. His indelible role came as the replicant Roy Batty in Ridley Scott's 'Blade Runner', whose final monologue —partly improvised by him— is one of the most quoted moments in science fiction. He strung together titles like 'Ladyhawke', 'The Hitcher', 'Nighthawks', and 'Sin City', almost always in registers of menacing intensity. Owner of a glacial gaze and an unsettling charisma, he died in 2019 leaving a gallery of unforgettable antiheroes.
Rutger Hauer was a Dutch actor of magnetic presence who moved from European cinema to Hollywood's most memorable villains. He became famous in his country with the series 'Floris' and with Paul Verhoeven's 'Turkish Delight', before conquering the international screen. His indelible role came as the replicant Roy Batty in Ridley Scott's 'Blade Runner', whose final monologue —partly improvised by him— is one of the most quoted moments in science fiction. He strung together titles like 'Ladyhawke', 'The Hitcher', 'Nighthawks', and 'Sin City', almost always in registers of menacing intensity. Owner of a glacial gaze and an unsettling charisma, he died in 2019 leaving a gallery of unforgettable antiheroes.
Known for
Blade Runner
Batty
Ladyhawke
Captain Etienne Navarre
The Hitcher
John Ryder
Flesh + Blood
Martin
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Break
Ray
★ 5.5
2020
Film
Porters
Tillman · 7 episodes
★ 7.7
2017–2019
TV
Iron Mask
English Ambassador
★ 6.1
2019
Film
Channel Zero
Joseph Peach · 6 episodes
★ 7.0
2018
TV
The Sonata
Richard Marlowe
★ 4.8
2018
Film
The Sisters Brothers
The Commodore
★ 6.8
2018
Film
Corbin Nash
Stranger
★ 4.5
2018
Film
Samson
Manoah
★ 5.7
2018
Film
The Broken Key
Professor Moonlight
★ 3.2
2017
Film
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Rutger Hauer still alive?
Rutger Hauer passed away on July 19, 2019 at age 75.
What are the most famous roles of Rutger Hauer?
Rutger Hauer is best known for roles in Batman Begins, Blade Runner, Sin City.
How many movies has Rutger Hauer been in?
Over a 50-year career (since 1969), Rutger Hauer has appeared in 110 movies and 21 TV shows.
What was Rutger Hauer's first movie?
The career of Rutger Hauer began with Rond Floris (1969).
What is Rutger Hauer's most recent movie or series?
Rutger Hauer's most recent release is Break, which premiered on April 20, 2020.
What TV shows has Rutger Hauer appeared in?
On television, Rutger Hauer has appeared in Smallville, True Blood, The Last Kingdom, Alias.
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Rutger Hauer
Rutger Hauer
1944-01-23 · Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands

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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