The following year, he appeared in arguably his most famous and acclaimed role as the eccentric, violent, yet sympathetic anti-hero replicant Roy Batty in Ridley Scott's 1982 science fiction thriller, Blade Runner — in which role Hauer improvised the oft-quoted tears in rain soliloquy.

* Deathline or Armageddon, a 1997 science fiction action film starring Rutger Hauer

Split Second is a 1992 British science fiction film starring Rutger Hauer, Kim Cattrall, and Neil Duncan.

Hauer went on to play the adventurer courting Gene Hackman's daughter ( Theresa Russell ) in Nicolas Roeg's poorly received Eureka ( 1983 ); the investigative reporter opposite John Hurt in Sam Peckinpah's The Osterman Weekend ( 1983 ); the hardened Landsknecht mercenary Martin in Flesh & Blood ( 1985 ); and the knight paired with Michelle Pfeiffer in the Medieval romance Ladyhawke ( 1985 ).

By the 1990s, Hauer was as well known for his humorous appearances in Guinness commercials as for his screen roles, which had increasingly involved low-budget films, including Split Second, which was set in a flooded London after global warming ; Omega Doom, another post-apocalyptic story in which he plays a soldier-robot ; and New World Disorder, opposite Tara FitzGerald.

Following Scarface, she accepted the roles of Isabeau d ' Anjou in Richard Donner's fantasy film Ladyhawke ( 1985 ) opposite Rutger Hauer and Matthew Broderick, Diana in John Landis ' comedy Into the Night ( 1985 ) opposite Jeff Goldblum, Faith Healy in Alan Alda's Sweet Liberty ( 1986 ) opposite Michael Caine, and Brenda Landers in a segment of the 1950s sci-fi parody Amazon Women on the Moon ( 1987 ), all of which, despite achieving only modest commercial success, helped to establish her as an actress.

She played a virginal princess kidnapped and raped by mercenaries in Flesh & Blood ( 1985 ), an innocent waitress pursued by the psychotic title character in The Hitcher ( 1986 ) ( both films pitting her opposite Rutger Hauer ), and a young woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown in Heart of Midnight ( 1989 ).

The Blood of Heroes is a 1989 post-apocalyptic film directed by David Webb Peoples and starring Rutger Hauer and Joan Chen.

A film of the kidnapping De Heineken Ontvoering, with Rutger Hauer playing Freddy Heineken, was released in October 2011.

These two films paired Hauer with fellow Dutch actor Jeroen Krabbé.

Hauer played an assassin in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind ( 2003 ), a villainous cardinal with influential power in Sin City ( 2005 ) and a devious corporate executive running Wayne Enterprises in Batman Begins ( 2005 ).

The composer ’ s model for the distributive serial process corresponds to a development of the Zwölftonspiel of Josef Matthias Hauer " ( Maconie 2005, 56 ), and Goeyvaerts, in such a work as Nummer 4, provides a classic illustration of the distributive function of seriality: 4 times an equal number of elements of equal duration within an equal global time is distributed in the most equable way, unequally with regard to one another, over the temporal space: from the greatest possible coïncidence to the greatest possible dispersion.

* Beyond Justice ( 1990 ) Co-starred with Rutger Hauer, Elliott Gould and Omar Sharif

After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Giuliani credited Nathan with coordinating the efforts of the Family Assistance Center at Pier 94, a claim disputed by the first director of New York City's Office of Emergency Management, Jerry Hauer, but supported by others who say she played a valuable role there that lasted for four months.

The Bishop of Aquila ( Wood ) sends his Captain of the Guard Marquet ( Hutchison ) to hunt down Phillipe ; he and his soldiers corner Philippe, but are foiled by a mysterious black knight who reveals himself to be their former Captain, Etienne of Navarre ( Hauer ), traveling with a beautiful and devoted hawk.

Todd Wagner, an attorney at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, co-founded the renamed AudioNet. com with Mark Cuban in September 1995.

It was followed by Turkish Delight ( Turks Fruit ) and Soldier of Orange ( Soldaat van Oranje ); ideas not used for the series were later included in the film Flesh & Blood, also directed by Verhoeven with Hauer in the lead role.

1975 saw a German remake of the series, Floris von Rosenmund, again starring Rutger Hauer, but with German actor Derval de Faria as Sindala.

In the movie some of the 1969-footage with Hauer and Bergman is included.

That year he resigned from the National Urban League to take a position as legal counsel with the Washington, D. C. office of the Dallas law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.

An accomplished lawyer, Strauss founded the law firm now known as Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in 1945, which has grown to be one of the largest in the world with offices in 15 cities and employing over 900 lawyers and professionals worldwide .< ref >

She studied under sculptor Erwin Hauer at Yale University as a mathematics undergraduate, and later with Robert Engman at the University of Pennsylvania.

The one reservation Hauer had was with the scene where the girl is torn apart and Feldman told him, " you are the bad guy and you'll be the baddest bad guy there ever was!

He also wanted to work with Hauer.

Jennifer Jason Leigh agreed to do the film because she wanted to work with Hauer again ( they co-starred in Flesh + Blood and loved the character of Nash because " there was a real person there ".

He earned a law degree from University of Virginia and then moved to Dallas, Texas where he became a licensed CPA in the State of Texas, and began a legal career with the national firms Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld and Hopkins & Sutter.

Before entering the real estate investment business, he practiced corporate and securities law in Dallas with Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP.

In season three, it is revealed that Lionel conspired with Morgan Edge ( Rutger Hauer ) to murder Lionel's parents, and use their insurance money to fund the start of LuthorCorp.

On January 5, 2005, the Telegraph of India reported that Blackwill was traveling to India on a trip linked to India's $ 600, 000-a-year contract with the Washington lobbying firm, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld that had expired in April, 2004.

In the film some of the 1969 footage with Rutger Hauer and Bergman is included.

( Although this is unofficial, Vortz have some similitudes with Rutger Hauer and his Jugger character from The Blood of Heroes, this fact can be noted better on the Japanese version's box art.

Hauer made his American debut in the Sylvester Stallone vehicle Nighthawks ( 1981 ), cast as a psychopathic and cold-blooded terrorist named " Wulfgar " ( after a character in the Old English poem Beowulf ).

* In the movie Sword of War ( also entitled Barbarossa ), Barbarossa is one of the main characters, played by Rutger Hauer.

* Eureka ( 1983 film ), directed by Nicolas Roeg and starred Gene Hackman, Rutger Hauer, Mickey Rourke, and Joe Pesci

Other composers of Hölderlin settings include Peter Cornelius, Hans Pfitzner, Richard Strauss ( Drei Hymnen ), Max Reger ( An die Hoffnung ), Alphons Diepenbrock ( Die Nacht ), Richard Wetz ( Hyperion ), Josef Matthias Hauer, Hermann Reutter ( an opera, a choral work, 18 songs ), Stefan Wolpe, Paul Hindemith, Benjamin Britten, Hans Werner Henze, Bruno Maderna ( Hyperion, Stele an Diotima ), Heinz Holliger ( the Scardanelli-Zyklus ), Hans Zender ( Hölderlin lesen I-IV ), György Kurtág ( who planned an opera on Hölderlin ), György Ligeti ( Hölderlin-Phantasien ), Hanns Eisler ( Hollywood Liederbuch ), Viktor Ullmann ( who wrote settings in Terezin concentration camp ), Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Walter Zimmermann ( Hyperion, an epistolary opera ) and Wolfgang Rihm.

* Barbarossa ( film ), a 2009 Italian film starring Rutger Hauer

* The Edge ( 1989 film ), a made-for-TV movie directed by Carl Schenkel and starring Rutger Hauer

When they run into a young seductress ( Renee Soutendijk ), her homosexual brother, national motocross champion Witkamp ( Rutger Hauer ) and the national press that follows in his wake, their futures change drastically.

In the late 1980s and 1990s, as well as in 2000, Hauer acted in several British and American television productions, including Inside the Third Reich ( as Albert Speer ); Escape from Sobibor ( for which he received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor ); Fatherland ; Hostile Waters ; Merlin ; The 10th Kingdom ; Smallville ; Alias ; and ' Salem's Lot.

The essay does, however, speak in more positive terms of Jakob Wilhelm Hauer and his German Faith Movement which was loyal to Hitler.

In the miniseries Merlin ( 1998 ) which uses the legend of Merlin and the dragons, Vortigern is played by Rutger Hauer.

The 1942 Casablanca centers on the development of conscience in the cynical American Rick Blaine ( Humphrey Bogart ) in the face of oppression by the Nazis and the example of the resistance leader Victor Laszlo. The David Lean and Robert Bolt screenplay for Doctor Zhivago ( an adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel ) focuses strongly on the conscience of a doctor-poet in the midst of the Russian Revolution ( in the end " the walls of his heart were like paper "). The 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner focuses on the struggles of conscience between and within a bounty hunter ( Rick Deckard ( Harrison Ford )) and a renegade replicant android ( Roy Batty ( Rutger Hauer )) in a future society which refuses to accept that forms of artificial intelligence can have aspects of being such as conscience.

On 4 March 2011, it was announced that Rutger Hauer had signed on to play Van Helsing in Argento's Dracula 3D, which was scheduled to begin shooting in Budapest later in the year.

In the Netherlands he became famous as the writer of the 1970 book Soldaat van Oranje ( Dutch: Soldier of Orange ) in which he describes his experiences in World War II, and which was made into a 1977 film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Rutger Hauer.

Flying Virus ( also titled Killer Buzz ) is a 2001 American-Brazilian horror film written and directed by Jeff Hare, which starred Gabrielle Anwar and Rutger Hauer.

These were followed by A Breed Apart with Rutger Hauer and Kathleen Turner, The Howling II & The Howling III, and the political drama Death of a Soldier, starring James Coburn, which was based on the infamous Melbourne wartime Eddie Leonski murder case.

Film credits as director as well as occasional writer and actor during the 1990s included the horror spoof Pterodactyl Woman From Beverly Hills ( 1994 ) with Beverly D ' Angelo, Barry Humphries ( in three roles ), Moon Unit Zappa and Philippe's children Georges and Madeleine ; Art Deco Detective ( 1994 ); Precious Find ( 1996 ) a sci-fi version of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, which reunited two actors from Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, Rutger Hauer and the late Brion James.

Quinlan is the co-author, with Blade Runner film star Rutger Hauer, of Hauer's memoir, All Those Moments, released by HarperCollins in May, 2007, and which was a Los Angeles Times bestseller.

Both versions contain the UK edit of the finale, which causes a continuity error ( Stallone fires only two shots, but six bullet holes end up on Hauer by the time his body falls down the steps ).