Anthony Geary

While his sexuality has not been corroborated, he has made it known that he has a second home in Amsterdam and speaks Dutch fluently, with many gossip columnists using this as "proof.". He married his second wife, Ineke, in 1985, and they have a daughter. Nowadays, he only works six months out of the year; with the advent of message boards, rumors have spread that he spends these six months in Amsterdam with his gay lover. Outside of acting as an environmentalist, he fought for the release of Greenpeace's co-founder, Paul Watson, who was convicted in 1994 for sinking an illegal Norwegian whaling vessel, and has set up an AIDS research foundation called the Rutger Hauer Starfish Foundation. Geary is rumored to be homosexual. He has recently been on the comeback trail as small parts in big films, with Confessions of Dangerous Mind (2003) and the upcoming Batman Begins. He also portrayed Luke's twin cousin Bill Eckert on General Hospital from 1991 to 1993. In between these lower budgeted films, he appeared in the music video "On a Night Like This" by Kylie Minogue.

The early 1990s saw Luke Spencer in a series of nearly improbable storylines seemingly lifted from the pages of a spy novel, which only served to further the character's popularity. It seemed that he had increasingly become involved in lower budget films, including Split Second, which was set in a flooded London after global warming, and recently New World Disorder, opposite Tara Fitzgerald. Spencer and Webber's 1981 wedding began what was arguably the greatest love affair in the history of General Hospital, if not daytime television. By the 1990s, Hauer was as well known for his humorous appearances in Guinness commercials as for his screen roles. The character became so popular that the writers turned Luke Spencer into a protagonist. He and Chen would again work together in two more science fictions films -- Wedlock and Precious Find. Geary's character began as a "hit man" and later as a rapist who fell in love and subsequently married his victim, Laura Webber played by Genie Francis. He returned to science fiction opposite Joan Chen with Salute of the Jugger (1990), in which he played a former champion in a post-apocalyptic world.

Anthony Geary (born May 29, 1947 in Coalville, Utah) is an actor who has starred on the ABC daytime drama General Hospital as Luke Spencer from 1978 to 1984 and from 1993 to present. Philip Noyce too attempted to capitalize, with far less success, on Hauer's spiritual qualities in the martial arts action adventure Blind Fury (1989). Italian director Ermanno Olmi mined the gentler, more mystic and soulful side of Hauer's personality in The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1989), the story of a lost soul who dies of drink in Paris while attempting to pay a debt of honour in a church. At the height of his fame he was even set to be cast as Robocop in the film of the same name by old friend Verhoeven. Thomas Howell's lone motorist and anyone who crossed his path en route.

He continued to make an impression on audiences, especially in the The Hitcher (1986), in which he was the mysterious Hitchhiker intent on murdering C. He went on to be the adventurer courting Gene Hackman's daughter (Theresa Russell) in Nicholas Roeg's poorly received Eureka (1983), the investigative reporter opposite John Hurt in Sam Peckinpah's The Osterman Weekend (1983) and the knight paired with Michelle Pfeiffer in the medieval romance Ladyhawke (1985). Cast as a psychotically cold-blooded terrorist named Wulfgar, he made a strong impression, which was confirmed by a major role the following year as the chief android Roy Batty (pitted against Harrison Ford) in Ridley Scott's science fiction film Blade Runner (1982). It was in the Sylvester Stallone vehicle Nighthawks (1981) that he finally made his proper American debut.

Incidentally these two films also paired Hauer with fellow international Dutch actor Jeroen Krabbé. In this period he made Keetje Tippel (1975), and worked again with Verhoeven on Soldaat van Oranje (Soldier of Orange) (1979), and Spetters (1980). This film was set in South Africa and starred Michael Caine and Sidney Poitier, it was an action melodrama with a focus on apartheid.Hauer's supporting role, however, was hardly enough to establish him in Hollywood's eyes, and he returned to European film making for several years. The movie found box-office favour abroad as well as at home and within two years, its star was invited to make his English language debut in The Wilby Conspiracy (1975).

His career changed course when director Paul Verhoeven gave him the lead in Turkish Delight (1973) (based on the Jan Wolkers book of the same name). He went on to join an experimental acting troupe, which he stayed with for five years before getting the lead role as a swashbuckler in the 1969 television series Floris, a Dutch Ivanhoe-like medieval action show. Returning home, he worked as an electrician and a carpenter for three years while attending drama classes at night school. The son of drama teachers Arend and Teunke, he grew up in Amsterdam but at age 15 ran away to the sea and spent a year scrubbing decks aboard a freighter.

Rutger Hauer (born January 23, 1944, Breukelen, the Netherlands) is an international movie star. I can see I've got blue eyes and I don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss.". "I don't know what the appeal is. "'Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.".

The subject is the future, which is fun to think about, but it doesn't really attract me.". "I am not really into science fiction at all because I tend to think that it's just another sort of game with the brain. Batman Begins (2005). Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002).

Precious Find (1996). Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992). Split Second (1990). Salute of the Jugger (1990).

Blind Fury (1989). The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1989). The Hitcher (1986). Flesh & Blood (1985).

Ladyhawke (1985). The Osterman Weekend (1983). Blade Runner (1982). Nighthawks (1981).

Spetters (1980). Soldaat van Oranje (Soldier of Orange) (1979). The Wilby Conspiracy (1975). Turkish Delight (1973).