Rutger Hauer Add to My Celebs Age 68 Birthday Jan. 23rd, 1944 Born in Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands Height 6' 1"

Rutger Hauer's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Smallville Morgan Edge The 10th Kingdom Huntsman Merlin (1998) (UK) King Vortig…

Main Movie Roles 2011 - The Rite 2008 - Bride flight 2007 - 7eventy 5ive 2007 - Goal II: Living the Dream 2007 - Moving McAllister 2005 - Sin City 2005 - Batman Begins 2002 - Confessions of a Dangerous Mind 1997 - Knockin' On Heaven's Door 1997 - Crossworlds 1996 - Omega Doom 1994 - Surviving the Game 1994 - Nostradamus 1992 - Split Second 1992 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1991 - Wedlock 1989 - Blind Fury 1986 - The Hitcher 1985 - Ladyhawke 1985 - Flesh+Blood 1984 - Terror in the Aisles 1983 - The Osterman Weekend 1982 - Blade Runner 1981 - Nighthawks 1976 - Max Havelaar of de koffieveilingen der Nederlandsche handelsmaatschappij 1975 - Keetje Tippel 1975 - The Wilby Conspiracy

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB


BIOGRAPHY:

Blonde, blue-eyed, tall and handsome Dutch actor Rutger Hauer has an international reputation for playing everything from romantic leads to action heroes to sinister villains. The son of actors, Hauer was born in Breukelen, Holland. Because his parents were often touring, he and his three sisters were raised by a nanny. A bit of a rebel during his childhood, he chafed at the rules and rigors of school and was often getting into mischief. His grandfather had been the captain of a schooner and at age 15, Hauer ran away to work on a freighter for a year. Like his great-grandfather, Hauer is color-blind, which prevented him from furthering his career as a sailor. Upon his return he attended night school and started working in the construction industry. When he again bombed at school, his parents enrolled him in drama classes. Fancying himself a poet, he spent most of his time writing poetry and hanging out in Amsterdam coffee houses instead of studying. He got expelled for poor attendance and afterward spent a brief period in the Dutch navy. Deciding he didn't like military life, he convinced his superiors that he was mentally unfit and was sent to a special home for psych patients. It was an unpleasant place, but Hauer remained there until he convinced his ranking officers that the military really did not need him.


TRIVIA:

• Has appeared in two vampire movies with 'Donald Sutherland (I)' (qv) ; _Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)_ (qv) , and _'Salem's Lot (2004) (TV)_ (qv) .
• Set up an AIDS research foundation called the Rutger Hauer Starfish Foundation.
• Father of 'Ayesha Hauer' (qv)
• Grandfather of 'Leandro Maeder' (qv).
• Is an environmentalist. Fought for the release of Greenpeace's co-founder, Paul Watson who was convicted in 1994 for sinking an illegal Norwegian whaling vessel. According to The Official Rutger Hauer website, the vessel was sunk in 1992 as a protest to Norway's announced intention to return to the commercial slaughter of whales, which was to be done in violation of the International Whaling Commission's global ban on whaling.
• Was 'Paul Verhoeven (I)' (qv) 's first choice to play _RoboCop (1987)_ (qv).
• According to an interview she gave when _Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)_ (qv) was first published, Rutger Hauer was 'Anne Rice (I)' (qv) 's original vision for Lestat when the book was being written. Despite a popular rumor that 'Julian Sands' (qv) was her first choice, he didn't even begin to show up in films or TV till 1982, so Rice couldn't have been aware of him in 1976 when she was writing the book; Rutger has been acting since 1968. Rice may have said Sands would be great for the part when they were casting the film, because she has said that by the time the film was being made Rutger Hauer was too old to play Lestat.
• Spent five years in a pantomime company prior to seriously pursuing an acting career.

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