Rutger Hauer

Rutger Hauer Movies and TV Shows

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.

Personal info

  • Gender: Male
  • Date of birth: 23/01/1944 (80 years old)
  • Place of birth: Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands
  • nationality: Dutch
  • height: 1.85 m
  • Net worth: $16,000,000
Year
Genre
IMDB
TMDB
Available on the following streaming services in the UK
Iron Mask
IMDB 4.7
TMDB 62%
role:
English Ambassador
2019

Adventure

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

4.7
62%
The Sonata
IMDB 5.2
TMDB 48%
role:
Richard Marlowe
2018

Horror

Mystery

Thriller

5.2
48%
The Sisters Brothers
IMDB 6.9
TMDB 68%
role:
The Commodore
2018

Adventure

Drama

Western

6.9
68%
Corbin Nash
IMDB 4.3
TMDB 47%
role:
Stranger
2018

Action

Horror

Thriller

4.3
47%
Samson
IMDB 4.5
TMDB 58%
role:
Manoah
2018

Action

Adventure

Drama

4.5
58%
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The Broken Key
IMDB 2.4
TMDB 35%
role:
Professor Moonlight
2017

History

Thriller

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

2.4
35%
2017

Action

Mystery

Thriller

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

5.8
59%
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
IMDB 6.4
TMDB 66%
role:
President of the World State Federation
2017

Action

Adventure

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

6.4
66%
Gangsterdam
IMDB 4.5
TMDB 54%
role:
Dolph
2017

Action

Comedy

4.5
54%
2016

Action

History

War & Politics

5.1
55%
The Letters
IMDB 6.2
TMDB 58%
role:
Benjamin Praagh
2015

Drama

6.2
58%
Unity
IMDB 7.3
TMDB 75%
role:
Himself - Narrator (voice)
2015

Documentary

7.3
75%
Admiral
IMDB 7.0
TMDB 64%
role:
Maarten Tromp
2015

Adventure

Drama

History

7.0
64%
2015

Adventure

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

4.1
51%
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2047: Sights of Death
IMDB 2.5
TMDB 30%
role:
Colonel Asimov
2014

Action

Thriller

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

2.5
30%
The Future
IMDB 5.9
TMDB 54%
role:
Maciste
Not available
2013

Drama

5.9
54%
Not available
Real Playing Game
IMDB 4.3
TMDB 42%
role:
Steve Batier
Not available
2013

Action

Adventure

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

4.3
42%
Not available
The Fall
IMDB 8.1
TMDB 77%
role:
Hobo
2013

Crime

Drama

8.1
77%
Flight of the Storks
IMDB 5.2
TMDB 80%
role:
Sonderman
Not available
2013

Crime

Mystery

5.2
80%
Not available
Dracula 3D
IMDB 3.6
TMDB 33%
role:
Abraham van Helsing
2012

Horror

Romance

Thriller

3.6
33%
Agent Ranjid rettet die Welt
IMDB 3.3
TMDB 43%
role:
Freek van Dyk
Not available
2012

Comedy

3.3
43%
Not available
The Heineken Kidnapping
IMDB 6.5
TMDB 59%
role:
Alfred Heineken
2011

Crime

Drama

Thriller

6.5
59%
The Cardboard Village
IMDB 6.4
TMDB 57%
role:
Not available
2011
6.4
57%
Not available
2011

Action

Adventure

Thriller

4.3
38%
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The Mill and the Cross
IMDB 6.9
TMDB 66%
role:
Peter Bruegel
Not available
2011

Drama

History

6.9
66%
Not available
All for One
IMDB 5.6
TMDB 60%
role:
Niemeyer
2011

Comedy

5.6
60%
Black Butterflies
IMDB 6.1
TMDB 60%
role:
Abraham Jonker
Not available
2011

Drama

Romance

6.1
60%
Not available
The Rite
IMDB 6.0
TMDB 61%
role:
Istvan Kovak
2011

Drama

Horror

Thriller

6.0
61%
2010

Drama

4.8
47%
Barbarossa
IMDB 4.4
TMDB 50%
role:
Federico Barbarossa
Not available
2009

Drama

History

4.4
50%
Not available
Bride Flight
IMDB 7.0
TMDB 70%
role:
Old Frank
Not available
2008

Drama

7.0
70%
Not available
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
IMDB 8.3
TMDB 79%
role:
Self & 1 more
Not available
2007

Documentary

8.3
79%
Not available
Dead Tone
IMDB 4.6
TMDB 46%
role:
Det. John Criton
Not available
2007

Horror

Thriller

4.6
46%
Not available
Goal! II: Living the Dream
IMDB 5.8
TMDB 59%
role:
Rudi van der Merwe
2007

Drama

5.8
59%
2006

Action

Adventure

Thriller

4.0
52%
Minotaur
IMDB 3.7
TMDB 46%
role:
Cyrnan
2006

Adventure

Horror

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

3.7
46%
The Poseidon Adventure
IMDB 4.4
TMDB 55%
role:
Bishop August Schmidt
2005

Action

Adventure

Drama

TV Movie

Thriller

4.4
55%
2005

Horror

4.6
49%
Batman Begins
IMDB 8.2
TMDB 77%
role:
William Earle & 1 more
2005

Action

Crime

Drama

8.2
77%
Sin City
IMDB 8.0
TMDB 74%
role:
Cardinal Patrick Henry Roark
2005

Action

Crime

Thriller

8.0
74%
2002

Comedy

Crime

Drama

Romance

Thriller

7.0
67%
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
IMDB 7.8
TMDB 76%
role:
Curtiz
Not available
1997

Comedy

Crime

7.8
76%
Not available
Fatherland
IMDB 6.4
TMDB 62%
role:
SS-Sturmbannführer Xavier March
Not available
1994

Action

Drama

Thriller

6.4
62%
Not available
Surviving the Game
IMDB 6.2
TMDB 62%
role:
Thomas Burns
1994

Action

6.2
62%
1992

Action

Comedy

Horror

5.7
56%
Split Second
IMDB 6.0
TMDB 60%
role:
Harley Stone
1992

Horror

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

6.0
60%
The Blood of Heroes
IMDB 6.3
TMDB 59%
role:
Sallow
Not available
1989

Action

Adventure

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

6.3
59%
Not available
Blind Fury
IMDB 6.3
TMDB 66%
role:
Nick Parker
1989

Action

Thriller

6.3
66%
Escape from Sobibor
IMDB 7.4
TMDB 73%
role:
Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky
1987

Drama

TV Movie

Thriller

War & Politics

7.4
73%
Wanted: Dead or Alive
IMDB 5.9
TMDB 61%
role:
Nick Randall
1987

Action

Crime

Drama

Thriller

5.9
61%
The Hitcher
IMDB 7.2
TMDB 70%
role:
John Ryder
Not available
1986

Action

Horror

Thriller

7.2
70%
Not available
Flesh + Blood
IMDB 6.7
TMDB 65%
role:
Martin
1985

Adventure

Drama

6.7
65%
Ladyhawke
IMDB 6.9
TMDB 70%
role:
Captain Etienne Navarre
1985

Adventure

Comedy

Drama

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

6.9
70%
The Osterman Weekend
IMDB 5.8
TMDB 56%
role:
John Tanner
1983

Action

Drama

Thriller

5.8
56%
Blade Runner
IMDB 8.1
TMDB 79%
role:
Roy Batty
1982

Drama

Thriller

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

8.1
79%
Nighthawks
IMDB 6.3
TMDB 64%
role:
Wulfgar
1981

Action

Crime

Thriller

6.3
64%
Spetters
IMDB 6.6
TMDB 64%
role:
Gerrit Witkamp
Not available
1980

Drama

Romance

6.6
64%
Not available
Soldier of Orange
IMDB 7.6
TMDB 71%
role:
Erik Lanshof
1977

Drama

Thriller

War & Politics

7.6
71%
Max Havelaar
IMDB 7.1
TMDB 67%
role:
Duclari
Not available
1976

Drama

History

7.1
67%
Not available
Turkish Delight
IMDB 7.1
TMDB 70%
role:
Eric Vonk
Not available
1973

Drama

Romance

7.1
70%
Not available

FAQs

Some movies or TV shows available in the UK starring or involving Rutger Hauer are, for example, Iron Mask, The Sonata and The Sisters Brothers.
The streaming services with the largest selection are Prime Video, Amazon and iTunes.
The best Anystream ratings are Blade Runner (8.0), Batman Begins (8.0) and The Fall (7.9).
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