I'm very sad to report that Rutger Hauer has died. The Dutch
actor was born in 1944 and has starred in multiple television and cinematic
roles since 1969. He has worked with top directors such as Ridley Scott and
Paul Verhoeven. He is probably best known for playing the Roy Batty "Nexus
6 replicant" in Scott's classic sci-fi film
noir, Blade Runner. I first knew
him as a child when I enjoyed his series of humourous and surreal TV adverts
for a certain well-known Irish dark ale, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIXmHMLPmiM.
I am a big fan of Blade Runner and
the movie would not have been the same without his extraordinary performance;
however, I can now only remember him as Matthias Tillman, the eccentric German
patriarch of St Ethelreda's Hospital porters. An old hand with a copious
knowledge of golf, karma and his own brand of shock therapy that is guaranteed
either to kill or cure. See here for
details: http://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2018/11/porters-first-series.html
and: http://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2018/10/porters-returns-to-dave.html.
He was seventy-five years old and is survived by Ineke, his beloved wife of
fifty years. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49098435.
Rest in peace, Rutger Hauer... Tillman is now on Eternal Nightshift.
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