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Rutger Hauer

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Also known as Rutger Oelsen Hauer

Dutch actor (1944–2019)

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Rutger Oelsen Hauer (1944–2019) was a Dutch actor, film director, and television actor. Born in Breukelen, he held citizenship in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. His professional career spanned from 1969 until his death in 2019. Hauer was fluent in Dutch and English. He received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film.

Hauer was 1.85 meters tall and had one child. He suffered from color blindness. He died in Beetsterzwaag. His father was Arend Hauer.

Synthesized by Vinony from 39 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
3

Top works

  • All Those Moments
  • All those moments
  • All Those Moments

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Film & TV

Acting · Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands

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…

Known for

  • Moonage Daydream — Self (archive voice)2022
  • Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood — Self (archive footage)2021
  • Break — Ray2020
  • Iron Mask — English Ambassador2019
  • Corbin Nash — Stranger2018
  • Samson — Manoah2018
  • The Sonata — Richard Marlowe2018
  • The Sisters Brothers — The Commodore2018
  • Drawing Home — Carl Rungius2017
  • Gangsterdam — Dolph2017

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Netherlands
Active from
1944
Active to
2019
Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
248
Total plays
1,075

Tags

hardcorethrash metalsludge metaldeath metal

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Rutger+Hauer">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. A Programmable Dual-RNA–Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity

    · 2012 · cited 15,560x

  2. Spreading Dead Zones and Consequences for Marine Ecosystems

    · 2008 · cited 5,567x

  3. A subcellular map of the human proteome

    · 2017 · cited 2,529x

  4. Autoantibodies against type I IFNs in patients with life-threatening COVID-19

    · 2020 · cited 2,283x

  5. Industrial biocatalysis today and tomorrow

    · 2001 · cited 2,137x

via Crossref · CC0

~11 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Rutger Oelsen Hauer ( Dutch: [ˈrʏtxər ˈulsə(n) ˈɦʌuər]; 23 January 1944 – 19 July 2019) was a Dutch actor, with a career that spanned over 170 roles across nearly 50 years, beginning in 1969. In 1999, he was named by the Dutch public as the Best Dutch Actor of the Century.

Hauer's career began in 1969 with the title role in the Dutch television series Floris and surged with his leading role in Turkish Delight (1973), which in 1999 was named the Best Dutch Film of the Century. After gaining international recognition with Soldier of Orange (1977) and Spetters (1980), he moved into American films such as Nighthawks (1981) and Blade Runner (1982), starring in the latter as self-aware replicant Roy Batty. His performance in Blade Runner led to roles in The Osterman Weekend (1983), Ladyhawke (1985), The Hitcher (1986), Escape from Sobibor (1987), The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988), and Blind Fury (1989), among other films.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rutger Hauer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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