Rutger Hauer (1944 – 2019)

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Rutger Hauer (1944 – 2019)



Rutger Oelsen Hauer (Dutch: [ˈrɵtxər ˈulsə(n) ˈɦʌuər]; 23 January 1944 – 19 July 2019) was a Dutch actor, writer, and environmentalist. He acted in both Dutch and English-language TV series and films.

His career began in 1969 with the title role in the Dutch television series Floris. His film credits include Flesh+Blood, Blind Fury, Blade Runner, The Hitcher, Escape from Sobibor (for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor), Nighthawks, Wedlock, Sin City, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Ladyhawke, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Osterman Weekend, The Blood of Heroes, Batman Begins, Hobo with a Shotgun, and The Rite.

Hauer founded the Rutger Hauer Starfish Association, an AIDS awareness organization.

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Rutger Hauer is part of the Dutch resistance and is on a nazi party under the disguise as a collaborator. And old acqaintence who is part of the Dutch Waffen-SS spots him and ironically asks him to dance. He knows that he is on the other side, but spares his life because he knows him. He asks; "I heard you were on the other side, in London. It is a pity we are not one the same side." Rutger Hauer; "That isn't true, I was here all the time." All these opportunist bread nazi's over here -het means the civilian NSB Dutch Nazi collaborators at the party, in contrast with his own Dutch SS who really fights on the Eastern front. He says; "Maybe in a few years time both we and the British fight against the communists in the East. Rutger Hauer replies; "I don't believe in that." The SS guy replies: "We won't be around then when that happens." "We won't reach the end of the war."

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The Heineken Kidnapping

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In this movie, Rutger Hauer plays Abraham Jonker, a conservative South-African writer, journalist and National Party Apartheid politician. The father of poet Ingrid Jonker, which he rejects due to her progressive, anti-Apartheid and liberal views. He rejected her poems and on a certain point he decided that he never wanted to see his daughter again and broke all contact with her. The role of Ingrid Jonker is played by the Dutch actress Carice van Houten