Rutger Hauer

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1944-01-23 (75 years old)

Deathday

2019-07-19

Place of Birth

Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands

Rutger Hauer

Biography

Rutger Oelsen Hauer 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 ...

Acting

1982

Blade Runner

as Batty

2005

Sin City

as Cardinal Roark

2005

1985

Ladyhawke

as Captain Etienne Navarre

1977

Soldier of Orange

as Erik Lanshof

1997

Hostile Waters

as Cap. Britanov

1991

Wedlock

as Frank Warren

1973

Turkish Delight

as Eric Vonk

2010

1994

Fatherland

as SS-Sturmbannführer Xavier March

2002

Scorcher

as US President Nelson

1989

1981

Nighthawks

as Wulfgar

-

Isip the Warrior

as Catholic Priest

1987

Wanted: Dead or Alive

as Nick Randall

1975

The Wilby Conspiracy

as Blane Van Niekirk

1987

Escape from Sobibor

as Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky

1983

The Osterman Weekend

as John Tanner

1985

Flesh + Blood

as Martin

1986

The Hitcher

as John Ryder

1992

Split Second

as Stone

2007

Goal II: Living the Dream

as Rudi van der Merwe

1980

Spetters

as Gerrit Witkamp

2005

The Poseidon Adventure

as Bishop August Schmidt

1999

New World Disorder

as David Marx

1975

1998

Tactical Assault

as Capitaine John 'Doc' Holiday

1993

Blind Side

as Jake Shell

2000

Wilder

as Dr. Sam Dennis Charney

2007

Dead Tone

as Det. John Criton

2011

1996

Precious Find

as Armond Crille

1983

Eureka

as Claude Maillot Van Horn

1989

On a Moonlit Night

as John Knott

2009

Barbarossa

as Federico Barbarossa

1997

Deathline

as John Wade

2011

Portable Life

as Antonio

1975

Cold Blood

as Cris

1996

Omega Doom

as Omega Doom

1996

1994

Surviving the Game

as Thomas Burns

1978

2011

The Rite

as Istvan Kovak

2007

Moving McAllister

as Maxwell McAllister

1992

Past Midnight

as Ben Jordan

2008

Bride Flight

as Old Frank

1994

Nostradamus

as The Mystic Monk

2006

The Hunt for Eagle One

as Gen. Frank Lewis

2006

Minotaur

as Cyrnan

1989

Blind Fury

as Nick Parker

1978

Pastorale 1943

as August Schultz

2011

All for One

as Niemeyer

2011

Black Butterflies

as Abraham Jonker

1989

2001

Flying Virus

as Ezekial

1988

1981

Chanel Solitaire

as Etienne de Balsan

2011

The Mill and the Cross

as Peter Bruegel

2011

The Heineken Kidnapping

as Alfred Heineken

2004

Tempesta

as Van Beuningen

1997

Bleeders

as Dr. Marlowe

1993

Arctic Blue

as Ben Corbett

1979

Fatal Error

as Rinus de Gier

1984

A Breed Apart

as Jim Malden

2011

1975

Cyrano de Bergerac

as de Valvert

2001

Lying in Wait

as Keith Miller

2008

Magic Flute Diaries

as Dr. Richard Nagel

2011

The Reverend

as The Withstander

1992

Beyond Justice

as Tom Burton

2010

Life's a Beach

as Jean-Luc

2013

The Future

as Maciste

2012

Dracula 3D

as Abraham van Helsing

1993

Voyage

as Morgan Norvell

2012

2000

Partners in Crime

as Gene Reardon

1978

Mysteries

as Johan Nagel

2013

Real Playing Game

as Steve Batier

2007

Starting Over

as Peter Rossen

2004

Never Enough

as Sebastian

2014

The Letters

as Benjamin Praagh

2017

Drawing Home

as Carl Rungius

1994

1997

Blast

as Leo

1997

2008

The Prince of Motor City

as William Hamilton

2001

Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal

as Copilot MacIntosh

2014

2047: Sights of Death

as Colonel Asimov

2002

Warrior Angels

as Grekkor

2005

2011

Spoon

as Victor Spoon

1975

Cancer Rising

as Pierre

2015

Admiral

as Maarten Tromp

1969

1982

Inside the Third Reich

as Albert Speer

2006

2016

2009

3

as Father (voice)

1997

The Ruby Ring

as Patrick Collins

2015

Unity

as Narrator (voice)

2009

2014

Francesco

as Padre di Francesco

2016

Wax - We Are The X

as Aron Mulder

1995

Mr. Stitch

as Doctor Rue Wakeman

2017

Gangsterdam

as Dolph

1991

Desert Law

as Tom Burton

1998

Bone Daddy

as Palmer

2024

Like Tears in Rain

as Self (archive footage)

2017

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

as President of the World State Federation

2019

Iron Mask

as English Ambassador

1974

Dandelions

as Rick

2018

Corbin Nash

as Stranger

2015

Clones

as Dr. Richards

2006

Mentor

as Sanford Pollard

2005

1976

Max Havelaar

as Duclari

1994

2017

The Broken Key

as Professor Moonlight

2018

Samson

as Manoah

2018

The Sonata

as Richard Marlowe

2017

1996

2018

The Sisters Brothers

as The Commodore

1999

Simon Magus

as Count Albrecht, the Squire

2020

Break

as Ray

2017

Uncle Howard

as Self (archive footage)

1989

The Edge

as Sheriff Emil Abel

2021

Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood

as Himself (archive footage)

2026

Emperor

as John The Constant

Production

2009

Dazzle

as Executive Producer

2011

Requiem 2019

as Director

-

Starfish Tango

as Director

2001

The Room

as Director

1993

Arctic Blue

as Co-Executive Producer

1989

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