FrameThrower · Actors · Rutger Hauer
Rutger Hauer
13 films · 837 frames · top-billed in 6 · 1973–2018
Born 23 January 1944 · Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands · died 19 July 2019
Rutger Oelsen Hauer 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.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 13 films · 837 frames · top-billed in 6 · 1973–2018
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film1988
- Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion
- Golden Calf Culture Prize2008
- Golden Calf for Best Actor1981
How their films are shot
Measured across 837 frames from the 13 films we hold. This is the look of the work Rutger takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 13 films we hold, 59% of their frames are night, 48% low key — the look of the work Rutger takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Hobo With A Shotgun
2011 · Hobo
Flesh+Blood
1985 · Martin
Blade Runner
1982 · Batty
Soldier of Orange
1977 · Erik Lanshof
Katie Tippel
1975 · Hugo
Turkish Delight
1973 · Erik Vonk
The Sisters Brothers
2018 · The Commodore
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
2017 · President of the World State Federation
Sin City
2005 · Cardinal Roark
Batman Begins
2005 · Earle
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2002 · Keeler
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1992 · Lothos
Spetters
1980 · Gerrit Witkamp
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 837 frames from Rutger Hauer's 13 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.