Paul Verhoeven (natural July 18, 1938) is a illustrious Dutch-born film director best known for his extremely violent science fiction films.

He was innate within Amsterdam, Netherlands. Inside 1960 he graduated from a University of Leiden with a double within mathematics and physics. He joined a Dutch navy as a conscript & it was therein service that he gained his number 1 exposure to film, making infotainment. He left a navy & took his skills into Dutch television. His number 1 major profits was a 1969 Floris television series, starring Rutger Hauer. His number 1 film was freed within 1971, Wat Zien Ik? was not especially swell standard. However his foremost national profits did non came until 1973 with Turks Fruit, featuring Hauer. He built in his reputation & charted minor international successes, like a Golden Globe winning Soldaat van Oranje, he moved to the United States.

Verhoeven's go Dutch film was The Fourth Man (1983), a horror film starring Jeroen Krabbe and Renee Soutendijk. It was written by Gerard Soeteman from either the novel by Gerard Reve. Soeteman as well wrote Verhoeven's foremost Western film, Flesh and Blood (1985), which starred Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

Working in the United states he processed the good vary a la mode, directing impenetrable-budget, violent, results-heavy smashes like Robocop (1987) and Total Recall (1990). He followed victims successes using a equally incredible (& provocative) Basic Instinct (1992) and then a ill-famed flop Showgirls (1995). When that he returned to the graphic violence & results that marked his earliest films sustaining Starship Troopers (1997) and Hollow Man (2000).

Filmography
Wat Zien Ik? (1971) Turks Fruit (1973) Keetje Tippel (1975) Soldaat van Oranje (1977) Spetters (1980) De Vierde Man (1983) Flesh & Blood (1985) Robocop (1987) Total Recall (1990) Basic Instinct (1992) Showgirls (1995) Starship Troopers (1997) Hollow Man (2000) Zwartboek (2005)