More recently, he appeared in a pair of 2005 films: as Cardinal Roark in Sin City, and as the corporate villain who Bruce Wayne discovers is running the Wayne Corp. in Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins.
Rutger was born near Amsterdam in 1944, and scored his first big break in 1969 when he was cast in a successful stage show.
Aside from acting, he was active in social causes as an outspoken sponsor of the environmental organisation Greenpeace and the founder the Starfish Association, a non-profit devoted to AIDS awareness.
He is survived by his second wife of 50 years, Ineke ten Cate, and a daughter, actress Aysha Hauer, from his marriage to Heidi Merz.