Rutger Hauer (1944)

Biografía

Rutger Oelsen Hauer (23 January 1944 - 19 July 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.

Filmografía

Año	Título	Personaje	Valoración
2020	Break	Ray	★★★☆☆
2019	El misterio del dragón	English Ambassador	★★★☆☆
2018	Sansón	Manoah	★★★☆☆
2018	Corbin Nash	Stranger	★★☆☆☆
2018	The Sonata	Richard Marlowe	★★☆☆☆
2018	Los hermanos Sisters	The Commodore	★★★☆☆
2017	Drawing Home	Carl Rungius	☆☆☆☆☆
2017	Gangsterdam	Dolph	★★★☆☆
2017	Valerian y la ciudad de los mil planetas	President of the World State Federation	★★★☆☆
2017	The Broken Key	Professor Moonlight	★★☆☆☆
2017	24 horas para vivir	Frank	★★★☆☆
2017	Mata Hari	Стольбаккен	★★★☆☆
2017	Porters	Tillman	★★★★☆
2016	Wax - We Are The X	Aron Mulder	★★★★☆
2016	Genderness		☆☆☆☆☆
2016	Valkiria: El Amanecer Del Cuarto Reich	Oskar Halminski	★★★☆☆
2016	Channel Zero	Joseph Peach	★★★★☆
2015	El rey escorpión 4: La búsqueda del poder	King Zakour	★★★☆☆
2015	Michiel de Ruyter: El almirante	Maarten Tromp	★★★☆☆
2015	Unity	Narrator (voice)	★★★★☆
2015	Clones	Dr. Richards	★★★☆☆
2015	Fifty Shades of Erotica		★★★★☆
2015	The Last Kingdom	Ravn	★★★★☆
2015	Galavant	Kingsley	★★★★☆
2014	Cartas de la Madre Teresa	Benjamin Praagh	★★★☆☆
2014	2047 - Sights of Death	Colonel Asimov	★☆☆☆☆
2014	Francesco	Padre di Francesco	★★★★☆
2013	Il futuro	Maciste	★★★☆☆
2013	Real Playing Game	Steve Batier	★★☆☆☆
2013	Le Vol des cigognes	Sonderman	★★★☆☆
2012	Drácula 3D	Abraham van Helsing	★★☆☆☆
2012	Agent Ranjid rettet die Welt	Freek van Dyk	★★☆☆☆
2012	Metal Hurlant Chronicles	Kerm	★★★☆☆
2011	El rito	Istvan Kovak	★★★☆☆
2011	Hobo with a Shotgun	Hobo	★★★☆☆
2011	Black Butterflies	Abraham Jonker	★★★☆☆
2011	Alle for én	Niemeyer	★★★☆☆
2011	El molino y la cruz	Peter Bruegel	★★★☆☆
2011	El secuestro de Alfred Heineken	Alfred Heineken	★★★☆☆
2011	El pueblo de cartón	Sacristan	★★★☆☆
2011	The Reverend	The Withstander	★★☆☆☆
2011	Spoon	Victor Spoon	☆☆☆☆☆
2011	Requiem 2019		☆☆☆☆☆
2011	Portable Life	Antonio	☆☆☆☆☆
2010	Life's a Beach	Jean-Luc	★☆☆☆☆
2010	Happiness Runs	Insley	★★☆☆☆
2009	Barbarroja	Federico Barbarossa	★★★☆☆
2009	Oogverblindend		★★★☆☆
2009	3	Father (voice)	☆☆☆☆☆
2008	El vuelo de las novias	Old Frank	★★★☆☆
2008	Magic Flute Diaries	Dr. Richard Nagel	☆☆☆☆☆
2008	The Prince of Motor City	William Hamilton	☆☆☆☆☆
2008	True Blood (Sangre fresca)	Niall Brigant	★★★★☆
2007	¡Goool 2! Viviendo el sueño	Rudi van der Merwe	★★★☆☆
2007	7eventy 5ive (Dead Tone)	Det. John Criton	★★☆☆☆
2007	Moving McAllister	Maxwell McAllister	★★☆☆☆
2007	Comenzar de nuevo	Peter Rossen	★★☆☆☆
2007	Zomer Draait Door, De		☆☆☆☆☆
2006	La caza del Águila Uno	Gen. Frank Lewis	★★☆☆☆
2006	A la caza del enemigo	Gen. Frank Lewis	★★★☆☆
2006	Minotauro	Cyrnan	★★☆☆☆
2006	Mentor	Sanford Pollard	★★★★☆
2005	Batman Begins	William Earle	★★★★☆
2005	La aventura del Poseidón	Bishop August Schmidt	★★★☆☆
2005	Ídolos del aire	Mysterious Man	★★☆☆☆
2005	Sin City: Ciudad del pecado	Cardinal Patrick Henry Roark	★★★★☆
2005	Drácula III: Legado	Dracula	★★☆☆☆
2005	De Wereld Draait Door		★★★☆☆
2004	Tempesta	Van Beuningen	★★★☆☆
2004	Camera ascunsă	Sebastian	★★★★★
2004	El misterio de Salem's Lot	Kurt Barlow	★★★☆☆
2003	The Hitcher: How Do These Movies Get Made?		☆☆☆☆☆
2002	Confesiones de una mente peligrosa	Keeler	★★★☆☆
2002	Scorcher	US President Nelson	★★☆☆☆
2002	Warrior Angels	Grekkor	★★☆☆☆
2002	Los banqueros de Dios (El caso Calvi)	Paul Marcinkus	★★★☆☆
2001	Abejas asesinas	Ezekial	★★☆☆☆
2001	Espera Mortal	Keith Miller	★★☆☆☆
2001	Turbulence. Secuestro en la red	Copilot MacIntosh	★★☆☆☆
2001	The Room		★★★☆☆
2001	Alias	Anthony Geiger	★★★☆☆
2001	Smallville	Morgan Edge	★★★★☆
2000	Cómplices	Dr. Sam Dennis Charney	★★☆☆☆
2000	Compañeros en el crimen	Gene Reardon	★★★☆☆
2000	El décimo reino	The Huntsman	★★★★☆
2000	El décimo reino	Huntsman	★★★★☆

Año	Título	Trabajo	Calificación
2011	Requiem 2019	Director	☆☆☆☆☆
2009	Oogverblindend	Executive Producer	★★★☆☆
2001	The Room	Director	★★★☆☆
1993	Arctic Blue	Co-Executive Producer	★★☆☆☆
1989	On a Moonlit Night	Dialogue	★★★★☆
	Starfish Tango	Director	☆☆☆☆☆

Año	Título	Personaje	Calificación
2021	Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood	Himself (archive footage)	☆☆☆☆☆
2017	Uncle Howard	Self (archive footage)	★★★☆☆
2016	Les Mondes de Philip K. Dick	Self - Actor	★★★★☆
2015	Dietro gli occhiali bianchi	Self	★★★☆☆
2014	La verdadera historia de la ciencia ficción	Himself	★★★☆☆
2013	The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy	Self (archive footage)	★★★☆☆
2011	More Blood, More Heart: The Making of Hobo with a Shotgun	Himself	★★★☆☆
2007	Días peligrosos: Creando Blade Runner	Self	★★★★☆
2007	Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling	Self	☆☆☆☆☆
2006	Blond, Blue Eyes	Self	★★★☆☆
2004	Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend'	Self	☆☆☆☆☆
2002	V Graham Norton	Self	★★★☆☆
2000	On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'	Self	★★★★☆