Rutger Oelsen Hauer (23 January 1944 – 19 July 2019) was a Dutch stage, television and film actor.
His career began in 1969 with the title role in the popular Dutch television series Floris, directed by Paul Verhoeven. His film credits included several famous collaborations with the aforementioned Verhoeven such as Turkish Delight, Soldier of Orange and Flesh+Blood (1985). In Hollywood, he was most famous for Blade Runner, The Hitcher, Batman Begins, and Hobo with a Shotgun. He won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for Escape from Sobibór.
Hauer was a dedicated environmentalist and founded an AIDS awareness organization, the Rutger Hauer Starfish Association. He also made a series of surreal adverts for the Guinness brand of beer in the UK over several years.
He passed away at age 75 on 19 July 2019 note . He was the father of actress Aysha Hauer and the grandfather of fashion model Leandro Maeder.
His filmography includes:
Films:
- Turkish Delight (1973) — Eric Vonk
- Soldier of Orange (1977) — Erik Lanshof
- Nighthawks (1981) — Heymar 'Wulfgar' Reinhardt
- Blade Runner (1982) — Roy Batty
- The Osterman Weekend (1983) — John Tanner
- A Breed Apart (1984) — Jim Malden
- Ladyhawke (1985) — Navarre
- Flesh+Blood (1985) — Martin
- The Hitcher (1986) — John Ryder
- Wanted: Dead or Alive (1987) — Nick Randall
- Escape from Sobibór (1987) — Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky
- Blind Fury (1989) — Nick Parker
- Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989) — The Brain
- The Blood of Heroes (1989) — Sallow
- Wedlock (1991) — Frank Warren
- Split Second (1992) — Harley Stone
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) — Lothos
- Surviving the Game (1994) — Thomas Burns
- Fatherland (1994) — Xavier March
- Mr. Stitch (1995) — Dr. Rue Wakeman
- Blast (1997) — Leo
- The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon (1997) — John Thornton
- Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal (2001) — MacIntosh
- Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind (2002) — Keeler
- Sin City (2005) — Cardinal Patrick Henry Roark
- Batman Begins (2005) — William Earle
- Dracula III: Legacy (2005) — Dracula
- The Poseidon Adventure (2005) — Bishop August Schmidt
- Hobo with a Shotgun (2011) — Hobo
- The Mill And The Cross (2011) — Pieter Bruegel
- The Rite (2011) — Istvan Kovak
- Dracula 3D (2012) — Van Helsing
- 24 Hours to Live (2017) — Frank
- Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) — President of the World State Federation
- The Sonata (2018) — Richard Marlowe
Television series:
- "Inside the Third Reich" (1982) —Albert Speer
- Lexx (1997) — Bog
- Merlin (1998) — King Vortigern
- The 10th Kingdom (2000) — The Huntsman
- Alias (2003) — Anthony Geiger
- Smallville (2003) — Morgan Edge
- 'Salem's Lot (2004) — Kurt Barlow
- True Blood (2013-2014) — Niall Brigant
- Wilfred (2014) — Dr. Grummons
- Galavant (2015) — Kingsley
- The Last Kingdom (2015) — Ravn
- Channel Zero (2018) — Joseph Peach
Video games:
- >OBSERVER_ (2017) — Daniel Lazarski
- No Man's Sky (2018) — Narration for the "I've Seen Things" trailer
, done in a similar style to Roy Batty's final monologue in Blade Runner - Kingdom Hearts III (2019) — Master Xehanort (replacing the late Leonard Nimoy)
