Rutger Hauer, the Dutch actor best known for portraying the tragic villain Roy Batty in Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic “Blade Runner,” died following a short illness. He was 75.His website ...

Rutger Hauer, 2014. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP) AMSTERDAM, July 24 (Reuters) – Dutch actor Rutger Hauer, best known for his role in the 1982 science fiction classic “Blade Runner,” died on ...

Rutger Oelsen Hauer was born on Jan. 23, 1944, in Breukelen, near Amsterdam. His father, Arend, and his mother, Teunke (Mellema) Hauer, were actors who also ran an acting school in Amsterdam.

Dutch actor Rutger Hauer, best known for his role in the 1982 film "Blade Runner," has died, his management agency confirmed to CBS News. He was 75. The Rutger Hauer Starfish Association, his ...

In 2019, the legendary Dutch actor Rutger Hauer passed away. For cinephiles, his legacy was immense, ranging from films like Nighthawks to The Osterman Weekend, to Eureka, in which Hauer starred ...

Today at a Sundance screening of Hobo with a Shotgun, Rutger Hauer told me to shut up in front of an auditorium full of people. I'll have video of that up soon, my ultimate geek moment, but for ...

Rutger Hauer got to be a star in his home country of the Netherlands in the late '60s and early '70s with roles on TV and in the movies. One of them, "Turkish Delight," was nominated for an Oscar.

Rutger Hauer, star of "Blade Runner," has died at age 75, Fox News has learned. The Dutch actor was best known for his role as Harrison Ford's nemesis, Roy Batty, in the 1982 movie "Blade Runner ...

Rutger Hauer, the Dutch actor whose film and TV credits included "Blade Runner," "Batman Begins" and "True Blood," has died at 75 after a short illness.

UTRECHT, Netherlands -- Despite more than a hundred films to his credit, Rutger Hauer has remained an intensely private figure. But that's changing. The 62-year-old Dutch actor recently gave ...

Hauer, who starred in the original, said in a new interview he knew Blade Runner 2049 "wasn't going to work." Mark Serrels is an award-winning Senior Editorial Director focused on all things ...

Rutger Hauer, the versatile Dutch actor best known for his leading role in "Blade Runner," died at his home in the Netherlands, his agent and loved ones announced Wednesday. He was 75. Hauer ...