Blade Runner star Rutger Hauer did not see his character as a villain, and the actor took some exception to that notion while doing press for the film’s initial release. The iconic Ridley Scott ...

Rutger Hauer was a legendary Dutch actor best known for his role as replicant Roy Batty in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. He died last Friday at his home in the Netherlands. He was 75.

NEW YORK — Dutch film actor Rutger Hauer, who specialized in menacing roles, including a memorable turn as a murderous android in “Blade Runner” opposite Harrison Ford, has died. He was 75 ...

Slaven Vlasic/Getty; Michael Kovac/Getty Scott, 81, directed Blade Runner and also honored Hauer in a statement obtained by Entertainment Weekly. “Rutger was the gentle giant,” he said.

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.

Dutch actor Rutger Hauer, who starred in Ridley Scott’s science-fiction movie Blade Runner (1982) as the replicant leader Roy Batty, opposite Harrison Ford, has died at the age of 75.

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 ...

He leaves behind his wife of 50 years, Ineke ten Cate, and daughter Aysha Hauer. Daryl Hannah is speaking out following the death of her former "Blade Runner" co-star Rutger Hauer.

It was Rutger Hauer’s “time to die,” but before he did so, he had an amazing career on screen and life off screen. The Dutch actor, who co-starred in the 1982 sci-fi movie “Blade Runner ...

Had Hauer played Batty as another stone-faced Eurobaddie, “Blade Runner” itself might have been a more comfortably classifiable genre effort, the kind of movie that many viewers expected in ...

Dutch actor Rutger Hauer, best known for his role in science fiction classic Blade Runner, died on July 19 after a short illness, Dutch news agency ANP reported on Wednesday, citing his family.

July 24, 2019 / 4:59 PM EDT / CBS/AP 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.