Rutger Hauer

Rutger Oelsen Hauer (23 Januari 1944 – 19 Juli 2019) adalah seorang aktor film Belanda. Dia terkenal karena perannya dalam Flesh + Blood, Blind Fury, Blade Runner, The Hitcher, Nighthawks, Sin City, Ladyhawke, The Blood of Heroes dan Batman Begins. Hauer lahir di Breukelen, Belanda, dari guru drama Arend dan Teunke, dan dibesarkan di Amsterdam. Karena orang tuanya sangat sibuk dengan karier mereka, dia dan ketiga saudara perempuannya (satu lebih tua, dua lebih muda) sebagian besar dibesarkan oleh pengasuh anak. Pada usia 15 tahun, Hauer lari ke laut dan menghabiskan satu tahun menggosok geladak kapal barang. Sekembalinya ke rumah, ia bekerja sebagai tukang listrik dan tukang kayu selama tiga tahun sambil mengikuti kelas akting di sekolah malam. Dia kemudian bergabung dengan grup eksperimental, di mana dia tinggal selama lima tahun sebelum dia berperan dalam peran utama dalam serial televisi 1969 yang sangat sukses Floris, sebuah drama aksi abad pertengahan mirip Ivanhoe Belanda. Peran tersebut membuatnya terkenal di negara asalnya. Karir Hauer berubah arah ketika sutradara Paul Verhoeven memilihnya sebagai pemeran utama dalam Turkish Delight (1973) (berdasarkan buku Jan Wolkers dengan judul yang sama). Film ini mendapat perhatian box-office di luar negeri maupun di dalam negeri, dan dalam waktu dua tahun, bintangnya diundang untuk membuat debut berbahasa Inggrisnya di film Inggris The Wilby Conspiracy (1975). Bertempat di Afrika Selatan dan dibintangi oleh Michael Caine dan Sidney Poitier, film tersebut merupakan melodrama aksi dengan fokus pada apartheid. Peran pendukung Hauer, bagaimanapun, hampir tidak diperhatikan di Hollywood, dan dia kembali ke film Belanda selama beberapa tahun. Hauer memulai debutnya di Amerika dalam kendaraan Sylvester Stallone Nighthawks (1981), berperan sebagai psikopat dan teroris berdarah dingin bernama "Wolfgar" (setelah karakter dalam puisi Inggris Kuno Beowulf). Tahun berikutnya, ia muncul dalam perannya yang paling terkenal dan terkenal sebagai pengganda Roy Batty yang eksentrik, penuh kekerasan, namun simpatik dalam film thriller fiksi ilmiah tahun 1982 karya Ridley Scott, Blade Runner. Hauer adalah seorang pencinta lingkungan yang berdedikasi. Dia memperjuangkan pembebasan salah satu pendiri Greenpeace, Paul Watson, yang dihukum pada tahun 1994 karena menenggelamkan kapal penangkapan ikan paus Norwegia. Hauer juga mendirikan yayasan kesadaran AIDS yang disebut Rutger Hauer Starfish Foundation. Ia menikah dengan istri keduanya, Ineke, pada tahun 1985 (mereka telah bersama sejak tahun 1968); dan dia memiliki satu anak, aktris Aysha Hauer, yang lahir pada tahun 1966 dan menjadikannya seorang kakek pada tahun 1988. Pada bulan April 2007, dia menerbitkan otobiografinya All That Moments: Stories of Heroes, Villains, Replicants, dan Blade Runners (ditulis bersama Patrick Quinlan) di mana dia mendiskusikan banyak peran filmnya. Hasil dari buku ini disumbangkan ke Hauer's Starfish Foundation.

Rutger Oelsen Hauer (January 23, 1944 – July 19, 2019) was a Dutch film actor. He was well known for his roles in Flesh + Blood, Blind Fury, Blade Runner, The Hitcher, Nighthawks, Sin City, Ladyhawke, The Blood of Heroes and Batman Begins. Hauer was born in Breukelen, Netherlands, to drama teachers Arend and Teunke, and grew up in Amsterdam. Since his parents were very occupied with their careers, he and his three sisters (one older, two younger) were raised mostly by nannies. At the age of 15, Hauer ran off to sea and spent a year scrubbing decks aboard a freighter. Returning home, he worked as an electrician and a carpenter for three years while attending acting classes at night school. He went on to join an experimental troupe, with which he remained for five years before he was cast in the lead role in the very successful 1969 television series Floris, a Dutch Ivanhoe-like medieval action drama. The role made him famous in his native country. Hauer's career changed course when director Paul Verhoeven cast him as the lead in 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, its star was invited to make his English-language debut in the British film The Wilby Conspiracy (1975). Set in South Africa and starring Michael Caine and Sidney Poitier, the film was an action melodrama with a focus on apartheid. Hauer's supporting role, however, was barely noticed in Hollywood, and he returned to Dutch films for several years. Hauer made his American debut in the Sylvester Stallone vehicle Nighthawks (1981), cast as a psychopathic and cold-blooded terrorist named "Wolfgar" (after a character in the Old English poem Beowulf). The following year, he appeared in arguably his most famous and acclaimed role as the eccentric, violent, yet sympathetic replicant Roy Batty in Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi thriller, Blade Runner. Hauer was a dedicated environmentalist. He fought for the release of Greenpeace's co-founder, Paul Watson, who was convicted in 1994 for sinking a Norwegian whaling vessel. Hauer has also established an AIDS awareness foundation called the Rutger Hauer Starfish Foundation. He married his second wife, Ineke, in 1985 (they had been together since 1968); and he has one child, actress Aysha Hauer, who was born in 1966 and who made him a grandfather in 1988. In April 2007, he published his autobiography All Those Moments: Stories of Heroes, Villains, Replicants, and Blade Runners (co-written with Patrick Quinlan) where he discussed many of his movie roles. Proceeds of the book go to Hauer's Starfish Foundation.