Rutger Hauer

Rutger Oelsen Hauer (23 de Enero de 1944 - 19 de Julio de 2019) lo que a Dutch película y actor. He was well known for his roles en Flesh + Blood, Ciego de Furia, Blade Runner, The carretera al infierno, Noctámbulos, Sin City, Ladyhawke, The Blood of Heroes and Batman Begins. Hauer was born en Breukelen, países Bajos, to drama teachers Arend and Teunke, and grew up en Amsterdam. Since his parents were very occupied with their careers, he and his three sisters (one older, two younger) were criado mayormente by niñeras. At the age of 15, Hauer ran off to sea and spent a year desplazamiento cubiertas aboard a freighter. Returning home, he worked as en electrician and a carpenter for three years while attending acting classes at night school. He went on to join experimental de la compañía, with which he remained for five years before he was cast in the lead role in the very successful de 1969, serie de televisión Floris, a Dutch Ivanhoe-like medieval acción dramática. The role made him famous in his native country. Hauer's career changed course when director Paul Verhoeven cast him as the lead en Turkish Delight (1973) (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, su estrella de lo que invited to make his English-language debut en the British film The Wilby Conspiracy (1975). Set en el Sur de África y protagonizada por Michael Caine and Sidney Poitier, la película en lo que a acción melodrama with a focus on apartheid. Hauer's supporting role, however, lo que barely noticed en Hollywood, and he returned to Dutch película for several years. Hauer made his American debut en the Sylvester Stallone vehicle Noctámbulos (1981), cast as a psychopathic and cold-blooded terrorista llamado "Wolfgar" (after a character in the Old English poema Beowulf). The following año, he apareció en arguably his most famous and acclaimed role as the eccentric, violent, yet simpática replicant Roy Batty en Ridley Scott en 1982, thriller de ciencia ficción, Blade Runner. Hauer lo que a dedicado environmentalist. He fought for the release of Greenpeace's co-fundador, Paul Watson, ¿quién convicted en 1994 for sinking a Norwegian buques de pesca de ballenas. Hauer has also established en AIDS awareness foundation called the Rutger Hauer Starfish de la Fundación. He married his second wife, Ineke, en 1985 (they had been together since 1968); and he has one child, actriz, Aysha Hauer, who was born en 1966 and who made him a grandfather en 1988. En Abril de 2007, pp published his autobiography All Those Moments: Stories of Heroes, Villanos, Replicants, and Blade Runners (co-written with Patrick Quinlan) where he sido discussed many of his movie roles. Proceeds of the book go to Hauer's Starfish de la Fundación.