The character was the villain of Philip K. Dick’s 1968 sci-fi novel, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, as well as the 1982 Scott film upon which it was loosely inspired. Batty was a synthetic ...

Rutger Hauer, the prolific Dutch actor who played the murderous Roy Batty in 1982’s “Blade Runner” and whose other American TV and film credits included “Batman Begins” and “Sin City,” has died. He ...

An AIDS charity with which the actor was involved, the Rutger Hauer Starfish Foundation, said he died peacefully at his Dutch home. The charity said his wife, Ineke, will carry on its work. Hauer was ...

He’s been lost, like tears in rain. Rutger Hauer, the Dutch actor best known for playing an eloquent and ruthless replicant villain in 1982’s sci-fi classic “Blade Runner,” died after a short illness, ...

Actor Rutger Hauer died at his home in the Netherlands after a short illness. The 75-year-old was best known for his villainous role in Ridley Scott's classic 1982 science fiction film Blade Runner.

Guillermo del Toro calls Hauer "an intense, deep, genuine and magnetic actor that brought truth, power and beauty to his films." Dutch actor Rutger Hauer has died at the age of 75, and Hollywood is in ...

Rutger Hauer, the ruggedly handsome Dutch actor who brought a sinister intensity to villainous roles in “Blade Runner,” “Nighthawks,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and other movies, died on Friday at his ...

AMSTERDAM, July 24 (Reuters) – Dutch actor Rutger Hauer, best known for his role in the 1982 science fiction classic “Blade Runner,” died on July 19 after a short illness, Dutch news agency ANP ...

Rutger Hauer, a rugged Dutch actor who played Nazis, action heroes and bloodsucking vampires, but who was best known as the android outlaw in the science-fiction thriller “Blade Runner,” died July 19 ...

Rutger Hauer, a dashing Dutch actor who battled Harrison Ford in the science-fiction classic “Blade Runner” and excelled in bad-guy roles, died July 19 after a short illness, his longtime agent Steve ...

The actor Rutger Hauer died last week after a brief illness. 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.