Rutger Hauer

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Jan 23, 1944 (81 years old)

Rutger Hauer

Known For

Like Tears in Rain
1h 21m
Movie 2024

Like Tears in Rain

His entire life, the charismatic actor Rutger Hauer kept the outside world at a distance. His inner circle included only a small group of people, among them director and goddaughter Sanna Fabery de Jonge. In this film, she unravels the mystery surrounding Rutger and reveals a man even more fascinating than the roles he played.

Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
0h 44m
Movie 2021

Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood

Break
1h 47m
Movie 2020

Break

Break is a 'rags to riches', feel good story. The film follows the exploits of Spencer Pryde, a gifted, inner-city kid, wasting his talents on petty crime. After witnessing the brutal murder of his pal Denis and finding himself in debt to a drug dealing thug named Ginger, it seems Spencer's life is spiraling out of control, until one day, a chance encounter with a Chinese stranger and former eight-ball pool champion named Vincent Quiang presents him with an opportunity to turn his life around. But in order to make a new life for himself, Spencer will first need to break away from peer pressure of his friends, his environment and all the negative influences of his current life.

Iron Mask
2h 1m
Movie 2019

Iron Mask

Commissioned to map the Far East territories of the Russian Empire, cartographer Jonathan Green sets off on a long journey of unbelievable adventures—making breath-taking discoveries and meeting mysterious creatures, Chinese princesses, deadly masters of oriental martial arts, and even the King of Dragons.

The Sonata
1h 28m
Movie 2018

The Sonata

After a gifted musician inherits a mansion after her long lost father dies under mysterious circumstances, she discovers his last musical masterpiece riddled with cryptic symbols that unravels an evil secret, triggering dark forces that reach beyond her imagination.

The Sisters Brothers
2h 1m
Movie 2018

The Sisters Brothers

Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.

Corbin Nash
1h 35m
Movie 2018

Corbin Nash

A rogue police detective in search of his parents' killer is murdered and reborn the ultimate killer.

Samson
1h 50m
Movie 2018

Samson

After losing the love of his life to a cruel Philistine prince, a young Hebrew with Supernatural strength defends his people, sacrificing everything to avenge his love, his people, and his God.

Drawing Home
1h 52m
Movie 2017

Drawing Home

Boston in the 1920s. A young East Coast debutante is dating the most eligible bachelor in the world, John D. Rockefeller III. Her future seems set: a dream life in the upper echelons of society. But when she least expects it, she meets a young painter from one of the most beautiful places on Earth, the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Their worlds are polar opposites. As their attraction turns their lives upside down, they soon face a universal question: Can you find "home" in another person?

The Broken Key
2h 5m
Movie 2017

The Broken Key

In a near future, due to the effects of an uncompromising law on the eco-sustainability of supports, paper has become a rare item, a luxury possession, controlled by the "Big Z": Zimurgh Corporation.

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.

Acting

2024
Like Tears in Rain
2021
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
2020
Break
2019
Iron Mask
2018
The Sonata
2018
The Sisters Brothers
2018
Corbin Nash
2018
Samson
2017
Drawing Home
2017
The Broken Key
2017
24 Hours to Live
2017
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
2017
Gangsterdam
2017
Mata Hari
2017
Uncle Howard
2016
Genderness
2016
Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich
2016
Wax - We Are The X
2016
The Worlds of Philip K. Dick
2015
Behind the White Glasses
2015
Unity
2015
Clones
2015
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
2014
Francesco
2014
Francesco
2013
Flight of the Storks
2012
Michelangelo: The Heart and the Stone
2012
Metal Hurlant Chronicles
2011
Portable Life
2011
More Blood, More Heart: The Making of Hobo with a Shotgun
2011
The 5th Execution
2011
The Mill and the Cross
2011
All for One
2011
The Rite
2011
Spoon
2011
Requiem 2019
2010
Happiness Runs
2009
3
2009
Dazzle
2008
Bride Flight
2008
The Prince of Motor City
2007
Fashion Forward: Wardrobe and Styling
2007
Dead Tone
2004
Salem's Lot
2000
The 10th Kingdom
1998
Merlin
1997
The Ruby Ring
1997
Deathline
1997
Eating Pattern
1997
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1996
Omega Doom
1996
Mariette in Ecstasy
1996
Precious Find
1996
Crossworlds
1995
Mr. Stitch
1994
Fatherland
1994
Nostradamus
1994
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
1993
Voyage
1993
Blind Side
1992
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992
Past Midnight
1992
Split Second
1991
Desert Law
1989
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989
The Blood of Heroes
1989
The Edge
1989
Blind Fury
1988
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
1987
The Best of Max Headroom
1985
Flesh + Blood
1982
Blade Runner

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