Rutger Hauer
Rutger Hauer Oelsen ( born January 23, 1944 in Breukelen, Netherlands) is a Dutch actor. As fey " replicant " in Ridley Scott's cult film Blade Runner, he obtained in 1982 are particularly well known.
Youth and Education
Rutger Hauer grew up in Amsterdam, the son of acting coach and Teunke Arend Hauer. He left home at the age of 15 years and spent a year trying to clear the decks of ships. Back home, he worked for three years as an electrician and carpenter and simultaneously took evening classes in acting classes. He joined an acting troupe, where he remained for five years, until he got the lead role in the hit TV series Floris.
Film career
Director Paul Verhoeven gave Hauer 1973, the main role in the film Turkish Delight, who was also a success outside the Netherlands. He received his first English-language role in 1975 in the British thriller The Wilby Conspiracy alongside Michael Caine and Sidney Poitier. After further films in the Netherlands, two of them again directed by Paul Verhoeven, Hauer was in 1981 his American debut in Stallone film Nighthawks. This film and appearing in the following year Blade Runner made him internationally known. His portrayal of artificial human Roy Batty in Blade Runner has been widely praised and is still considered one of his best roles.
After the cinematic failure of Eureka Hauer starred in a series of B-movies, but also in the critically acclaimed film Ladyhawke. With Verhoeven he again worked together in Flesh and Blood. In the cult movie Hitcher, the Highway Killer, who is widely regarded as one of the best representatives of the psychological thriller, he played a serial killer. Hauer starred in several films about the Nazi German roles. Commercials for the beer brand Guinness with tusks were popular in the early 1990s.
After he had been involved in the 1990s mainly in British and American television productions, Hauer managed the early 2000s, a cinema comeback with roles in Confessions - Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Sin City and Batman Begins, for which he also consistently recognized by critics obtained.
In 1988, he was honored for his role in Sobibor (Escape from Sobibor ) won a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini -Series or Motion Picture Made for TV excellent.
Hauer is remarried and has a daughter from his first marriage. He is committed to environmental protection, such as Greenpeace and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and has established a foundation for the study of AIDS.
Filmography (selection)
Cinema
TV
German dubbing voices
Rutger Hauer was voiced by the following vote in Germany: Tommi Piper, Joachim Kemmer, Michael Ansorge, Gudo Hoegel, Christian Wolff, Thomas Dannenberg, Heiner Lauterbach, Klaus Kindler, Klaus Guth, Wolfgang Condrus, Rüdiger Joswig, Hannes Gromball, Manfred Lehmann, Peter Aust, Sigmar Solbach, Jürgen Kluckert, Randolf Kronberg, Joachim Siebenschuh, Detlef Bierstedt, Wolf Frass, Kaspar Eichel, Ekkehardt Belle and Wolfgang Hess. Thomas Dannenberg is the best known and most popular voice Hauer.