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| 5 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rutger_hauer_5_1024x1024_1_768x768.jpg]] |
| 6 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[Film/BladeRunner He's seen things you people wouldn't believe.]]]] |
| 7 | ->''"Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical."'' |
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| 9 | Rutger Oelsen Hauer (23 January 1944 – 19 July 2019) was a [[UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands Dutch]] stage, television and film actor. |
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| 11 | His career began in 1969 with the title role in the popular Dutch television series ''Floris'', directed by Creator/PaulVerhoeven. His film credits included several famous collaborations with the aforementioned Verhoeven such as ''Film/TurkishDelight'', ''Film/SoldierOfOrange'' and ''Film/FleshAndBlood1985''. In Hollywood, he was most famous for ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''Film/TheHitcher'', ''Film/BatmanBegins'', and ''Film/HoboWithAShotgun''. He won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for ''Film/EscapeFromSobibor''. |
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| 13 | Hauer was a dedicated environmentalist and founded an AIDS awareness organization, the Rutger Hauer Starfish Association. He also made a series of surreal adverts for the Guinness brand of beer in the UK over several years. |
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| 15 | He passed away at age 75 on 19 July 2019 [[note]]Oddly, his character from ''Film/BladeRunner'', Roy Batty, also died in 2019[[/note]]. He was the father of actress Aysha Hauer and the grandfather of fashion model Leandro Maeder. |
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| 17 | !!His filmography includes: |
| 18 | |
| 19 | [[AC:Films:]] |
| 20 | |
| 21 | * ''Film/TurkishDelight'' (1973) -- Eric Vonk |
| 22 | * ''Film/SoldierOfOrange'' (1977) -- Erik Lanshof |
| 23 | * ''Film/{{Nighthawks}}'' (1981) -- Heymar 'Wulfgar' Reinhardt |
| 24 | * ''Film/BladeRunner'' (1982) -- Roy Batty |
| 25 | * ''Film/TheOstermanWeekend'' (1983) -- John Tanner |
| 26 | * ''A Breed Apart'' (1984) -- Jim Malden |
| 27 | * ''Film/{{Ladyhawke}}'' (1985) -- Navarre |
| 28 | * ''[[Film/FleshAndBlood1985 Flesh+Blood]]'' (1985) -- Martin |
| 29 | * ''Film/TheHitcher'' (1986) -- John Ryder |
| 30 | * ''Wanted: Dead or Alive'' (1987) -- Nick Randall |
| 31 | * ''Film/EscapeFromSobibor'' (1987) -- Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky |
| 32 | * ''Film/BlindFury'' (1989) -- Nick Parker |
| 33 | * ''Bloodhounds of Broadway'' (1989) -- The Brain |
| 34 | * ''The Blood of Heroes'' (1989) -- Sallow |
| 35 | * ''Film/{{Wedlock}}'' (1991) -- Frank Warren |
| 36 | * ''Film/{{Split Second|1992}}'' (1992) -- Harley Stone |
| 37 | * ''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' (1992) -- Lothos |
| 38 | * ''Film/SurvivingTheGame'' (1994) -- Thomas Burns |
| 39 | * ''Film/{{Fatherland}}'' (1994) -- Xavier March |
| 40 | * ''Film/MrStitch'' (1995) -- Dr. Rue Wakeman |
| 41 | * ''Film/{{Blast}}'' (1997) -- Leo |
| 42 | * ''[[Literature/TheCallOfTheWild The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon]]'' (1997) -- John Thornton |
| 43 | * ''Film/Turbulence3HeavyMetal'' (2001) -- [=MacIntosh=] |
| 44 | * ''Film/ConfessionsOfADangerousMind'' (2002) -- Keeler |
| 45 | * ''Film/SinCity'' (2005) -- Cardinal Patrick Henry Roark |
| 46 | * ''Film/BatmanBegins'' (2005) -- William Earle |
| 47 | * ''[[Film/Dracula2000 Dracula III: Legacy]]'' (2005) -- Dracula |
| 48 | * ''Film/ThePoseidonAdventure'' (2005) -- Bishop August Schmidt |
| 49 | * ''Film/HoboWithAShotgun'' (2011) -- Hobo |
| 50 | * ''Film/TheMillAndTheCross'' (2011) -- [[Creator/PieterBruegelTheElder Pieter Bruegel]] |
| 51 | * ''Film/TheRite'' (2011) -- Istvan Kovak |
| 52 | * ''Dracula 3D'' (2012) -- Van Helsing |
| 53 | * ''Film/TwentyFourHoursToLive'' (2017) -- Frank |
| 54 | * ''Film/ValerianAndTheCityOfAThousandPlanets'' (2017) -- President of the World State Federation |
| 55 | * ''Film/TheSonata'' (2018) -- Richard Marlowe |
| 56 | |
| 57 | [[AC:Television series:]] |
| 58 | * "Series/{{Inside the Third Reich}}" (1982) --Albert Speer |
| 59 | * ''Series/{{Lexx}}'' (1997) -- Bog |
| 60 | * ''Series/{{Merlin|1998}}'' (1998) -- King Vortigern |
| 61 | * ''Series/The10thKingdom'' (2000) -- The Huntsman |
| 62 | * ''Series/{{Alias}}'' (2003) -- Anthony Geiger |
| 63 | * ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' (2003) -- Morgan Edge |
| 64 | * ''Literature/SalemsLot'' (2004) -- Kurt Barlow |
| 65 | * ''Series/TrueBlood'' (2013-2014) -- Niall Brigant |
| 66 | * ''Series/{{Wilfred}}'' (2014) -- Dr. Grummons |
| 67 | * ''Series/{{Galavant}}'' (2015) -- Kingsley |
| 68 | * ''Series/TheLastKingdom'' (2015) -- Ravn |
| 69 | * ''Series/ChannelZero'' (2018) -- Joseph Peach |
| 70 | |
| 71 | [[AC:Video games:]] |
| 72 | |
| 73 | * ''VideoGame/{{Observer}}'' (2017) -- Daniel Lazarski |
| 74 | * ''VideoGame/NoMansSky'' (2018) -- Narration for the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UVQ14JrfRI "I've Seen Things" trailer]], done in a similar style to Roy Batty's final monologue in ''Film/BladeRunner'' |
| 75 | * ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' (2019) -- [[Characters/KingdomHeartsMasterXehanort Master Xehanort]] ([[TheOtherDarrin replacing]] the late Creator/LeonardNimoy) |
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