He came to mainstream prominence as a machine more human than his creators in
Blade Runner
, terrified us as a hitchhiker bent on his own death and the death of anyone who got in his way in
The Hitcher
, and unforgettably portrayed a lonely king roaming the night as a wolf and pining for the love of a hawk during the day in
Ladyhawke
.
Rutger Hauer has dazzled audiences for years with his creepy, inspiring, and villainous portrayals of everyone from a cold-blooded terrorist in
Nighthawks
to a blind martial arts master in
Blind Fury
, but his movie career was nothing compared to his real-life adventures of riding horses, sword fighting, and leaving home at fifteen to scrub decks on a freighter and explore the world.
From poverty to working with a traveling theater troupe to his breakout European performance in
Turkish Delight
and working with legendary directors such as Paul Verhoeven (
RoboCop
and
Basic Instinct
) and Ridley Scott (
Alien
Gladiator
), Hauer has collected
All Those Moments
here.