Rutger Hauer, the rough Dutch on-screen character who featured as maverick replicant pioneer Roy Batty in Ridley Scott's 1982 science fiction great Blade Runner, has sadly passed away. He was 75.
Hauer passed on Friday at his home in the Netherlands of an undisclosed disease, his specialist, Steve Kenis, revealed to The Hollywood Reporter. His family did not need the news uncovered until his memorial service, which was held Wednesday.
Hauer made his Hollywood presentation inverse Sylvester Stallone in Nighthawks (1981) and proceeded to show up on the extra-large screen in such movies as The Osterman Weekend (1983), Ladyhawke (1985), The Hitcher (1986), Wanted — Dead or Alive (1986), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), Batman Begins (2005), Sin City (2005), Hobo With a Shotgun (2011), Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) and The Sisters Brothers (2018).
Conceived Rutger Oelsen Hauer on Jan. 23, 1944, in Breukelen, only south of Amsterdam, he was the child of on-screen characters. He started his profession in 1969 on the Dutch TV arrangement Floris, coordinated by compatriot and chief Paul Verhoeven, who at that point cast him in Turkish Delight (1973) and Soldier of Orange (1977).
He was known as an advent environmentalist and AIDS mindfulness lobbyist.
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