Rutger Hauer

Rutger Oelsen Hauer (23 Janvier 1944 - 19 Juillet 2019) ce qui 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, pays-Bas, to drame 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 généralement by nounous près de chez. At the age of 15, Hauer ran off to sea and spent a year cases de ponts aboard a freighter. Returning home, he worked as à electrician and a carpenter for three years while attending intérim classes at night school. He went on to join 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 dramatique. The role made him famous in his native country. Croc's career changed course when directeur 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 favorable abroad as well as at home, and within two years, its star qui invited to make his English-language debut in the British film The Wilby Conspiracy (1975). Set in South Africa and mettant en vedette Michael Caine et Sidney Poitier, the ce film d'action mlodrame with a focus on apartheid. Croc's supporting role, however, ce que barely noticed à Hollywood, and he returned to Dutch film for several years. Hauer made his debut American in the Sylvester Stallone vehicle Faucons (1981), cast as a psychopathic and cold-blooded terroriste nommé "Wolfgar" (after a character in the Old English poème de Beowulf). The following year, he appeared dans arguably his most famous and acclaimed role as the eccentric, violent, yet sympathetic replicant Roy Batty, de Ridley Scott (1982 sci-fi, thriller, Blade Runner. Hauer ce qui a dédié, environnementaliste. He fought for the release of Greenpeace s co-fondateur, Paul Watson, l'oms, ce qui convicted en 1994 for sinking a Norwegian à la baleine vessel. Hauer has also established de AIDS awareness foundation called the Rutger Hauer Starfish Foundation. He married his second wife, Ineke, en 1985 (they had been together since 1968); and he has one child, actrice, Aysha Hauer, who was born in 1966 and who made him a grand-père en 1988. En Avril 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.