Rutger Hauer, the Dutch actor greatest recognized for portraying the tragic villain Roy Batty in Ridley Scott’s sci-fi basic “Blade Runner,” died following a brief sickness. He was 75.
His web site, the Rutger Hauer Starfish Association, introduced the information Wednesday. Hauer’s managers, in addition to his agent Steve Kenis, additionally confirmed his passing to TheWrap and added {that a} funeral was held for Hauer on Wednesday morning.
Hauer starred reverse Harrison Ford because the ruthless replicant Roy Batty in “Blade Runner” in 1982 after making his American movie debut in 1981 with Sylvester Stallone in “Nighthawks.” The actor subsequently appeared in a number of ’80s motion and journey hits like “Ladyhawke,” “Flesh+Blood,” “The Hitcher” and “Wanted: Dead or Alive.” He additionally received a Golden Globe for his work within the TV film “Escape from Sobibor,” a couple of commandant at a loss of life camp in World War II.
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However he first got here to fame in his native nation after working with Dutch director Paul Verhoeven on the 1969 medieval TV collection “Floris.” Verhoeven solid him once more in 1973’s “Turkish Delight,” which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film for the Netherlands on the Oscars. He would work once more with Verhoeven twice extra on “Soldier of Orange” and “Spetters.”
In the ’90s, Hauer appeared in a collection of surreal after which humorous advertisements for the beer Guinness together with the tagline “Pure Genius.” And extra lately, he starred in movies reminiscent of “Sin City,” “Batman Begins” and “Hobo With a Shotgun.” He additionally had a knack for the supernatural, portraying each Dracula and Van Helsing in a pair of initiatives, and he had a brief arc on the HBO collection “True Blood” as Niall Brigant.
Hauer additionally had an sudden connection to one of many greatest popular culture sensations of the late 20th century. Novelist Anne Rice has constantly mentioned her private conception of the looks of the vampire Lestat, the primary character of her “Vampire Chronicles,” is impressed by Hauer.
“You want to know what Lestat looks like to me? Look at this photograph,” Rice mentioned in a 2015 Facebook submit on Hauer’s 71st birthday. “I didn’t base Lestat’s description on Hauer. I didn’t encounter him till after I’d written “Interview with the Vampire” through which Lestat sprang to life just about on his personal. But that is certainly how I see my beloved Brat Prince hero.”
Most lately, Hauer offered the voice for the villain Master Xehanort within the 2019 online game “Kingdom Hearts III,” changing the late Leonard Nimoy.
He’s survived by his spouse Ineke, to whom he was married for 50 years.
