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Post by Wynn Chester on Jul 24, 2019 17:22:47 GMT
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Deus est regit qui omnia.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2019 17:41:58 GMT
Really sad news. Inspirational performance in 'Blade Runner'.
RIP
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Post by ltd on Jul 24, 2019 17:53:32 GMT
I think the quote from Guillermo Del Toro sums up his quality as an actor. Everybody remembers him in Bladerunner of course but I've a soft spot for his self-parodic performance as Harley Stone in Split Second, and his depressed German spy was easily the best thing in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.
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Post by ace5150 on Jul 24, 2019 18:18:04 GMT
The Hitcher was fantastic, as was Nighthawks.
Remember the beer ads?
RIP
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Post by flyingsquad on Jul 24, 2019 19:08:07 GMT
He was in one of my favourite foreign films 'Soldier Of Orange'. It was the true story of Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema who was a Dutch resistance fighter, RAF pilot and later assistant to the Dutch Queen Wilhelmina in exile in London during WW2.
RIP Rutger
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Post by mybodyguard on Jul 24, 2019 22:06:08 GMT
Such a screen presence in both mainstream films and B-movies. My best Hauer memory is probably Blind Fury. Ladyhawke, Nighthawks, and Escape From Sobibor also come to mind. RIP.
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Post by thecraftyleek on Jul 25, 2019 5:33:21 GMT
Aww No. Don't tell me Rutger's passed on. :-( The Hitcher. Very sad.
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Post by Arch Stanton on Jul 25, 2019 6:36:37 GMT
A really great actor that ended up a B movie legend by acting in loads of stuff that probably didn’t do his talent justice. He didn’t seem to mind though, he clearly had little pretentions about himself.
He starred in loads of good movies. I’m gonna throw things like Flesh & Blood out there, coz as of yet no one else has.
It’s a crazy movie.
Also films like A Breed Apart - I don’t think I’ve seen that for about 30 years. I need to rectify that.
Osterman Weekend etc..
Shamefully I know and have seen very little of his earlier work in the 1970s. And I bet that’s where he really was spectacular.
RIP Rutger.
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Post by jno on Jul 25, 2019 7:14:02 GMT
Sad news. Superb in everything I've seen him in, especially 'The Hitcher'. Check him out in German film 'Knockin on Heaven's Door' (1997). RIP
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Post by dscarter1975 on Jul 25, 2019 12:24:10 GMT
A real shame. My first memory of him is those Guinness adverts in the '80s. With that long, black overcoat and his carefully coiffeured blonde mane, he certainly was an enigma. It wasn't until I saw a video cover of Wanted Dead Or Alive with him on it that I realized he was an actor. First full film of his I watched was Nighthawks in the late '90s where he was the perfect match for Stallone who praised his acting abilities in a short video I came across. He also outacted Harrison Ford in Blade Runner delivering that amazing death speech and I also liked his other movies such as Blind Fury, The Hitcher, The Osterman Weekend and Soldier Of Orange.
I think he should have done one more movie with Paul Verhoeven, perhaps a cameo. They fell out while making Flesh + Blood because Rutger felt his character was too brutal and mean.
From interviews he gave, he sounded like being a decent, intelligent guy. RIP Roy Batty.
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Post by ltd on Jul 25, 2019 17:51:05 GMT
A really great actor that ended up a B movie legend by acting in loads of stuff that probably didn’t do his talent justice. He didn’t seem to mind though, he clearly had little pretentions about himself. I read an interview with him where he said he did have some second thoughts about the quality of some of the stuff he was doing, but in the end decided he was happy just to be working.
Going to tip the nod to "Fatherland", a cheap and pretty lacklustre adaptation of Robert Harris's alternative history thriller but he's really good in it. Great scene where he finds out about the holocaust and realises his whole life has been a lie.
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Post by Arch Stanton on Jul 25, 2019 17:54:33 GMT
A really great actor that ended up a B movie legend by acting in loads of stuff that probably didn’t do his talent justice. He didn’t seem to mind though, he clearly had little pretentions about himself. I read an interview with him where he said he did have some second thoughts about the quality of some of the stuff he was doing, but in the end decided he was happy just to be working. I have a lot of respect for people that are prepared to act in any old rubbish just to pay the bills. Even Nicholas Cage............ No wait, he was in that Wickerman remake wasn't he.  |
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Post by daz on Jul 26, 2019 17:46:29 GMT
I thought he was superb in the Hitcher and I too remember him from the beer ads. I watched him in a film last year, something fairly recent and may even have been a foregin language file and thought he was superb in it, even though I didn't know it was him until the credits at the end.
I only discovered after his death was announced that he was Dutch, I always thought he was Danish.
RIP
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Post by bodegg on Jul 27, 2019 20:00:53 GMT
How strange that he should pass in 2019, the year Roy Batty was 'retired'. Unforgettable scene at the end of a superb performance in a remarkable film which was sadly underrated at the time. I too enjoyed 'Split Second' which I got on a double feature vhs alongside 'Wedlock'. 'Fatherland' is a good alt history movie.
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Post by northernlass on Jul 28, 2019 0:26:50 GMT
RIP Rutger. You left us some amazing performances.
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Post by dcjones1 on Jul 28, 2019 22:24:36 GMT
RIP Rutger. We never got to see that time travel film Alan Partridge wanted to make with you and Malcolm McDowell. With you playing a cyber punk, naturally.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2019 10:07:49 GMT
RIP Rutger. We never got to see that time travel film Alan Partridge wanted to make with you and Malcolm McDowell. With you playing a cyber punk, naturally. Yes, it sadly didn't get past the development stage at Pear Tree Productions.  |
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Post by ltd on Jul 30, 2019 14:10:03 GMT
RIP Rutger. We never got to see that time travel film Alan Partridge wanted to make with you and Malcolm McDowell. With you playing a cyber punk, naturally. Sounds like it might have been quite good, minus Partridge's involvement naturally. |
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Post by westldner on Aug 1, 2019 1:29:57 GMT
RIP Rutger Hauer
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Post by thewoodster on Aug 27, 2019 11:14:29 GMT
RIP Rutger.
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