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->''"Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical."''

Rutger Oelsen Hauer (23 January 1944 – 19 July 2019) was a [[UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands Dutch]] stage, television and film actor.

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''.

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.

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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!!His filmography includes:

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[[folder: Films: ]]


* ''Film/TurkishDelight'' (1973) -- Eric Vonk
* ''Film/SoldierOfOrange'' (1977) -- Erik Lanshof
* ''Film/{{Nighthawks}}'' (1981) -- Heymar 'Wulfgar' Reinhardt
* ''Film/BladeRunner'' (1982) -- Roy Batty
* ''Film/TheOstermanWeekend'' (1983) -- John Tanner
* ''A Breed Apart'' (1984) -- Jim Malden
* ''Film/{{Ladyhawke}}'' (1985) -- Navarre
* ''[[Film/FleshAndBlood1985 Flesh+Blood]]'' (1985) -- Martin
* ''Film/TheHitcher'' (1986) -- John Ryder
* ''Wanted: Dead or Alive'' (1987) -- Nick Randall
* ''Film/EscapeFromSobibor'' (1987) -- Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky
* ''Film/BlindFury'' (1989) -- Nick Parker
* ''Bloodhounds of Broadway'' (1989) -- The Brain
* ''The Blood of Heroes'' (1989) -- Sallow
* ''Film/{{Wedlock}}'' (1991) -- Frank Warren
* ''Film/{{Split Second|1992}}'' (1992) -- Harley Stone
* ''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' (1992) -- Lothos
* ''Film/SurvivingTheGame'' (1994) -- Thomas Burns
* ''Film/{{Fatherland}}'' (1994) -- Xavier March
* ''Film/MrStitch'' (1995) -- Dr. Rue Wakeman
* ''Film/{{Blast}}'' (1997) -- Leo
* ''[[Literature/TheCallOfTheWild The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon]]'' (1997) -- John Thornton
* ''Film/Turbulence3HeavyMetal'' (2001) -- [=MacIntosh=]
* ''Film/ConfessionsOfADangerousMind'' (2002) -- Keeler
* ''Film/SinCity'' (2005) -- Cardinal Patrick Henry Roark
* ''Film/BatmanBegins'' (2005) -- William Earle
* ''[[Film/Dracula2000 Dracula III: Legacy]]'' (2005) -- Dracula
* ''Film/ThePoseidonAdventure'' (2005) -- Bishop August Schmidt
* ''Film/HoboWithAShotgun'' (2011) -- Hobo
* ''Film/TheMillAndTheCross'' (2011) -- [[Creator/PieterBruegelTheElder Pieter Bruegel]]
* ''Film/TheRite'' (2011) -- Istvan Kovak
* ''Dracula 3D'' (2012) -- Van Helsing
* ''Film/TwentyFourHoursToLive'' (2017) -- Frank
* ''Film/ValerianAndTheCityOfAThousandPlanets'' (2017) -- President of the World State Federation
* ''Film/TheSonata'' (2018) -- Richard Marlowe

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[[folder: Television series: ]]

* "Series/{{Inside the Third Reich}}" (1982) --Albert Speer
* ''Series/{{Lexx}}'' (1997) -- Bog
* ''Series/{{Merlin|1998}}'' (1998) -- King Vortigern
* ''Series/The10thKingdom'' (2000) -- The Huntsman
* ''Series/{{Alias}}'' (2003) -- Anthony Geiger
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' (2003) -- Morgan Edge
* ''Literature/SalemsLot'' (2004) -- Kurt Barlow
* ''Series/TrueBlood'' (2013-2014) -- Niall Brigant
* ''Series/{{Wilfred}}'' (2014) -- Dr. Grummons
* ''Series/{{Galavant}}'' (2015) -- Kingsley
* ''Series/TheLastKingdom'' (2015) -- Ravn
* ''Series/ChannelZero'' (2018) -- Joseph Peach

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[[folder: Video games: ]]


* ''VideoGame/{{Observer}}'' (2017) -- Daniel Lazarski
* ''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''
* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' (2019) -- [[Characters/KingdomHeartsMasterXehanort Master Xehanort]] ([[TheOtherDarrin replacing]] the late Creator/LeonardNimoy)
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