I first saw him in the Dutch film Spetterson the art circuit when I was briefly dating a Dutch woman.
Escape from Sobibor is the film I remember him from the most. It’s here in its entirety.
Kidda: How do you know if you’re good enough?
Sallow (Hauer): You know.
Kidda: What if you’re wrong?
Sallow: You find out.
Interesting side note: the last known survivor of the Sobibor uprising, one Semion Rosenfeld, passed away just last month at 96.
I always felt that no matter how shitty the movie, Rutger was still doing his best. That is something not a lot of other actors can say. And thank you for this thread, it made me Aware of a lot of his works I missed. Besides Blade Runner and Flesh&Blood, I do remember him in Lexx - The Dark Zone, a cheesy SF series with a lot of innovative ideas and charms for its time.
They should have tried EMS recombination or a repressor protein that blocks the operating cells.
I guess they missed uploading his memories into a Nexus-7.
I thought he did a good job with a comedic role in, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”. He played mostly villain roles.
Agreed, and good point!
I didn’t see him in too many things, but his performance in Blade Runner was certainly memorable. He also did well as a sleazy exec in one of the Christopher Nolan Batman movies.
May he rest in peace.
Etienne Navarre was my first movie crush. I’m sorry to read that he’s died.
Aye; this is true. Michael Caine and Bruce Campbell also do this and are similarly beloved and respected, but I agree it is a rarer thing than it ought to be.
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Yes, you digress. This isn’t on-topic, and it doesn’t add anything needed to the conversation.
We don’t have enough film performances from Rutger Hauer. He was never not-interesting. Perhaps it was his intelligence and taste that led him to be less driven to make movies than some.
Certainly Blade Runner is unimaginable without his wildly-eccentric performance—one that, ironically, was deeply characterized by its humanity.