Star of war films Hardy Kruger dies aged 93

German actor Hardy Kruger has died (Axel Heimken/dpa via AP,file)

German actor Hardy Kruger, who starred in a string of English-language adventure and war movies, has died in the US aged 93.

His Hamburg-based literary agent, Peter Kaefferlein, said that Kruger died “suddenly and unexpectedly” on Wednesday in California, where he lived with his third wife, American-born writer Anita Park.