MONDAY 5 AUGUST 2019

Blade Runner star forever

associated with android role

Rutger Hauer’s icy stare and droll humour made him a staple of action

and horror films, if never quite a household name

Hauer: ‘It’s fun to roam into the dark side of the soul’ (Warner Bros/Rex)

HARRISON SMITH

Rutger Hauer was a rugged Dutch actor who played Nazis, action heroes and bloodsucking vampires, but
who was best known as the android outlaw in the 1982 science-fiction thriller Blade Runner.

The blond-haired, blue-eyed Hauer – who has died aged 75 – was scarcely known when he burst off the
screen in the Ridley Scott-directed classic as a bioengineered android, or “replicant”, pursued by Harrison
Ford.

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