Rutger Hauer: Blade Runner actor dies aged 75

"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." - Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner

Sad to hear. Always liked him until I learned he improv’d a number of lines from the Blade Runner rain scene. Then he became a favorite. Brilliant actor.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tears_in_rain_monologue" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tears_in_rain_monologue</a><p>Edited. Missed a critical bit.

When I moved to Los Angeles in &#x27;88, I was at a Sunset liquor store one Friday evening when I noticed the normal looking tall gent next to me was Rutger Hauer. Bless his heart, he was alone and let me gush in semi-drunken adoration my disbelieve it was him, how much I loved his work and so on. We sat on the curb in front of El Compadre for quite a while chatting and drinking. One of my favorite memories in life.

Prediction: people will quote from Blade Runner, but will forget about Ladyhawke.<p>Edit: Its like the two sides should be together in SF&#x2F;Fantasy but for some reason they just cannot ... quite ...meet...

RIP to the actor my family called &quot;Brother Rutger.&quot;

Saw it mentioned that he died in the same year as his character does in Blade Runner.

He was staying in the same hotel as me when I was working in Montreal many years ago. After I saw him a number of days in a row he actually said hi to me before I did to him (probably on account of me being a bit star struck). That seems to me to be sign a pretty good guy. RIP.

Not many Dutch actors were good enough to make it internationally, Hauer deserved every bit of fame he managed to collect. His best films are in Dutch, in spite of his Blade Runner fame.

I suppose I must turn in my hacker membership card for this, but for me he was always the enigmatic star of Guinness commercials for a long time before I saw Blade Runner.

He has three films marked &quot;Post-production, posthumous release&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rutger_Hauer_filmography" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rutger_Hauer_filmography</a>

Casting for Blade Runner was uniformly excellent and many of the actors gave their standout performances in it. Hauer brought an amazing gravitas to the role.

His voice acting work in the game The Observer was really good. Going to have to do a re-play through it now.

Revel in your time.

Obligatory Blade Runner final scene: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;embed&#x2F;NoAzpa1x7jU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;embed&#x2F;NoAzpa1x7jU</a> (tears in rain)

So young...