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Rutger Hauer
Full name
Rutger Oelsen Hauer
Died
Beetsterzwaag, Netherlands
Occupation
Actor
Writer
Environmentalist
Parents
Arend Hauer
Teunke (née Mellema)
Spouse(s)
Heidi Merz (divorced)
Ineke ten Cate (m. )
Rutger Oelsen Hauer was a Dutch actor who played the replicant leader Roy Batty in the film Blade Runner.
Background[]
The son of drama teachers Arend and Teunke, Hauer grew up in Amsterdam but at age 15 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 drama classes at night school. He went on to join an experimental acting troupe, which he stayed with for five years before getting the lead role in the very successful television series Floris, a Dutch Ivanhoe-like medieval action show, which made his name in the Netherlands.
Film career[]
His career changed course when director Paul Verhoeven gave him the lead in Turkish Delight () (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 (). This film was set in South Africa and starred Mic
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| Born | Rutger Oelsen Hauer ()23 January Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands |
| Died | 19 July () (aged&#;75) Beetsterzwaag, State, Netherlands |
| Occupation | Actor |
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| Children | Ayesha Hauer |
| Parent | Arend Hauer (father) |
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Of all the Dutch film stars since the beginning of the film making age, Rutger Hauer must be considered to be the most prolific and successful performer of all Dutch actors or actresses. He was and is not only the top movie star in his native the Netherlands, but since his United States film debut in , he has become a notable American actor as well. Hauer moved permanently to the United States in , and since that time has done most of his work there, although he also actively participates in Dutch, British and international film making activities.
Hauer became the major Dutch movie actor in , with his role in “Turkish Delight”, a Dutch language movie which was directed by the noted Dutch American film director, Paul Verhoeven. A few years later, in , he solidified his position as a noted actor in his role in the Dutch language film, “Soldier of Orange”, a movie about the Dutch resistance during the Second World War. Both of the above films were also shown in the United States with English subtitles, and did receive considerable attention in the American market.
Following considerable success in his native country, Hauer entered the international movie making scene. He made his British debut in in “The Wilby Conspiracy”, a film set in South A