‘Rutger Hauer said he didn’t play bad guys’: how we made chiller classic The Hitcher
‘Rutger seemed to terrify everyone on the set and was pretty much left alone. I once went to his trailer for lunch and we sat in dead silence as he chain-smoked’
February 2020
Rutger Hauer remembered at the Oscars ceremony
The Academy paid tribute to the Blade Runner actor in its In Memoriam montage
July 2019
Rutger Hauer obituary
Rutger Hauer: from Blade Runner to Buffy the Vampire Slayer – in pictures
Rutger Hauer: an icily elegant presence with a touch of self-aware drollery
Rutger Hauer, star of Blade Runner, dies aged 75
September 2016
TV tonight
Saturday's best TV: All Together Now - The Great Orchestra Challenge; Newzoids
There’s more taboo-busting entertainment from the Last Leg’s Paralympics special, while Newzoids pokes fun at ITV favourites including Keith Lemon
May 2015
The hard sell
Rutger Hauer's Lurpak Spreadable advert
‘It’s Ready Steady Cook meets Whiplash, and would be unbearable were it not for Hauer’s scat commentary. “Spread it, baby!” he hoots at one point’
April 2015
Blade Runner: The Final Cut review – a timeless sci-fi classic
Blade Runner: The Final Cut review – savour its unhurried strangeness
March 2015
Blade Runner’s Sean Young: ‘If I were a man I’d have been treated better’
Tears in rain? Why Blade Runner is timeless
July 2011
Hobo with a Shotgun – review
This mindless Rutger Hauer vehicle started life as a spoof trailer. If should have gone no further, writes Philip French
Hobo With a Shotgun – review
Rutger Hauer stars in a hardcore splatter pic that aims to be as offensive as possible, says Peter Bradshaw
Rutger Hauer on Hobo With A Shotgun
Thirty years on from Blade Runner, Rutger Hauer returns to the limelight with a violent, cult classic-in-waiting
May 2007
Organ Grinder
Upfronts: Rutger's Wild at Heart
More, now on the TV over here that is doing rather well over there. And yes, The Hitcher star Rutger Hauer really is going to star in a US version of Wild At Heart, one of three Brit hits being adapted for full-length series across the Atlantic.
