Dutch actor
Born: January 23, 1944
Died: July 19, 2019
Blond, blue-eyed, tall, and handsome Dutch actor Rutger Hauer enjoyed an international reputation for playing everything from romantic leads to action heroes to sinister villains. Hauer was born in Breukelen, a Dutch town and former municipality in the province of Utrecht.
He was the son of Teunke Hauer (née Mellema) and Arend Hauer, actors who operated an acting school. As his parents were often touring, he and his three sisters were raised by a nanny. A bit of a rebel during his childhood, he chafed at the rules and rigors of school and was often getting into mischief. His grandfather had been the captain of a schooner, and at age fifteen, Hauer ran away to work on a freighter for a year. Like his great-grandfather, Hauer was colorblind, which prevented him from furthering his career as a sailor.
Upon his return, he attended night school and started working in the construction industry. When he again bombed at school, his parents enrolled him in drama classes. An amateur poet, he spent most of his time writing poetry and hanging out in Amsterdam coffee houses instead of studying. He was expelled for poor attendance and afterward spent a brief period in the Dutch navy.
Rutger Hauer’s 5 most popular quotes
- I’ve seen attack ships on fire on the shoulder of Orion, I’ve seen moon beams glisten at the Ten hauser gate, all those memories, lost like tears in the rain.
- Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it gladly. Because there is no work, love, knowledge, or wisdom in the grave.
- Most of the real bad guys in the world are people like you and me; they’re not stupid, and you can’t smell their horns.
- I hate acting when I see it. I don’t want to feel it, I don’t want to see it, I want to be taken away with the story – I don’t want the actor’s ego in front of me. That’s what I try to live when I do the work.
- If you’ve done what you need to do, you need to go bury yourself, because what else are you going to do? I think that that’s where life stops.
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