Rutger Hauer movies

He is well known for his role in Blade Runner (1982). He won a Golden Globe Award for his role in Escape from Sobibor (1987). In 2007 he published an autobiography, All Those Moments (HarperCollins; co-written with Patrick Quinlan), the title of which refers to his dialogue in Blade Runner.).

Background Rutger Hauer was born on January 23, 1944 in Breukelen, Netherlands to drama teachers Arend and Teunke, Rutger Hauer 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 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 1969 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 cast him as the lead in Turkish Delight (1973) (based on the Jan Wolkers book of the same name).

Rutger Hauer Movies

All movies starring Rutger Hauer.

• 'Salem's Lot
• Blade Runner
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Goal II: Living the Dream
• Ladyhawke
• Merlin
• Minotaur
• Moving McAllister
• Spoon
• Tonight at Noon