With the news that the veteran actor Rutger Hauer died last week at the age of 75 has come a peculiar alignment in the stars. Hauer was best known for his iconic role as Roy Batty, the homicidal ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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. Hauer ...

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 broke into the Hollywood zeitgeist through his iconic role of Roy Batty in the 1982 blockbuster Blade Runner. The prolific actor had already turned heads, enjoying a long career ...

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 ...

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. Hauer's ...