Rutger Hauer Highlights

  • 2005: Starred in "Sin City" the adaptation of comic book icon Frank Miller's uber-noir series of grapic novels; co-directed by Miller and Robert Rodriguez
  • 2005: Starred as Earle, a businessman who has designs on Wayne Enterprises, in "Batman Begins," which stares Christian Bale as Batman
  • 2002: Played a mysterious assassin in director George Clooney's "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind"
  • 1998: Appeared in the acclaimed NBC miniseries "Merlin"
  • 1998: Starred in the thriller "Bone Daddy"
  • 1994: Starred in the HBO movie "Fatherland"
  • 1994: Featured opposite Diane Keaton in the TNT biopic "Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight"
  • 1992: Played one of the undead in the film "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
  • 1991: American film debut, "Nighthawks"
  • 1987: Co-starred in the TV-movie "Escape From Sobibor"
  • 1985: Starred opposite Michelle Pfeiffer in "Ladyhawke"
  • 1982: Had breakthrough screen role as a replicant in "Blade Runner"
  • 1982: American TV debut, starring as Hitler's personal architect Albert Speer in "Inside the Third Reich", an ABC docudrama miniseries
  • 1979: Starred in his international breakthrough role, Verhoeven's "Soldier of Orange"
  • 1975: First English-language film, "The Wilby Conspiracy", a British feature set in South Africa starring Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine
  • 1973: Film debut, "Turkish Delight"; first film with Dutch director Paul Verhoeven
  • 1967: Stage debut
  • 1967: Toured Dutch farmlands with a theater group for six years
  • 1960: Joined the Dutch Army at age 16; applied to the officer's commission to become mountain climber, was eventually turned down
  • 1959: Worked as merchant seaman on tea schooner at age 15 (lied about his age; date approximate)
  • Studied drama at the University of Amsterdam