Rutger Hauer, the Dutch actor best known for portraying the tragic villain Roy Batty in Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic “Blade Runner,” died following a short illness. He was 75.His website ...

Rutger Hauer’s bedraggled, trench-coated hitchhiker John Ryder is everything the Joker always wanted to be, just without the film bro philosophising and cosplay-friendly get-up. A true agent of ...

A year later its screenwriter, Eric Red, would blow me away again with the vampire western Near Dark. Rutger Hauer, who passed away last Friday at the age of 75, played the film's villain, John Ryder.

Rutger Hauer is tired of being the bad guy. He was a villain in “Blade Runner” (as Harrison Ford’s nemesis, an albino automaton), “The Osterman Weekend” and now “The Hitcher.” Hauer ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Dutch film actor Rutger Hauer, who specialized in thoughtful, menacing roles, including a memorable turn as a murderous android in “Blade Runner” opposite Harrison Ford, has ...

From Blade Runner to The Hitcher, the great Rutger Hauer takes us through his most memorable characters.

Bean has the Rutger Hauer role in this “Hitcher,” a stylish, jolting remake that has some of the virtues, but also the dramatically unsatisfying amoral plot points, of the original.

That movie was an OK thriller with a great opening half-hour: a lonely driver picks up a hitchhiker, who quickly turns out to be a homicidal maniac. The film benefited from a clever, almost ...

The following year, Hauer portrayed a sadistic hitchhiker in "The Hitcher," a popular horror film. He worked steadily through the '80s, '90s and thereafter, including parts in "Buffy the Vampire ...

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Sean Bean steps into the formidable shoes of the truly creepy Rutger Hauer in the title role of the hitchhiker from hell.

Rutger Hauer, the Dutch actor best known for portraying the tragic villain Roy Batty in Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic “Blade Runner,” died following a short illness. He was 75.