in the 2019 video game Kingdom Hearts III, replacing the late Leonard Nimoy and was himself replaced by Christopher Lloyd following his death. Personal life Hauer was an environmentalist. He supported the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and was a member of its board of advisors. He also established an AIDS awareness organization called the Rutger Hauer Starfish Association. In April 2007, he published his autobiography, All Those Moments: Stories of Heroes, Villains, Replicants, and Blade Runners (co-written with Patrick Quinlan), in which he discussed many of his acting roles. Proceeds from the book go to the Rutger Hauer Starfish Association. Hauer was married twice. From his marriage with his first wife, Heidi Merz, came his only child, Aysha Hauer (born 1966), an actress who gave birth to Hauer's grandson in 1987. He had been together with his second wife, Ineke ten Cate, since 1968, and they married in a private ceremony on 22 November 1985. Although born in Utrecht, Hauer had strong links to Friesland. His second wife was the daughter of Laurens ten Cate, the editor-in-chief of the Friesland-based newspaper Leeuwarder Courant, and Hauer once stated in an interview with the Algemeen Dagblad that he "needed to feel the Frisian clay under [his] feet". Death Hauer died on 19 July 2019 at his home in Beetsterzwaag, following a short illness. He was 75 years old. A private funeral service was held on 24 July. On 23 January 2020, which would have been Hauer's 76th birthday, a ceremony was held in Beetsterzwaag in his honour. Attendees included Sharon Stone, Miranda Richardson, Diederik van Rooijen, and Prince Pieter-Christiaan of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven. Filmography Discography Lost in the New Real by Arjen Anthony Lucassen (2012) – Narrator/Voight Kampff, lyrics References External links Rutger Hauer at Virtual History Rutger Hauer Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker – United States Citizenship and Immigration Services 1944 births 2019 deaths 20th-century Dutch male actors 21st-century Dutch male actors Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe (television) winners Combat medics Dutch environmentalists Dutch expatriates in the United States Dutch male film actors Dutch male television actors Dutch male video game actors Dutch male voice actors Golden Calf winners Guinness advertising HIV/AIDS activists Knights of the Order of the Netherlands Lion Male actors from Amsterdam People from Breukelen Waldorf school alumni