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Rutger Hauer is best known for playing the replicant Roy Batty in Ridley Scott's 1982 science fiction film Blade Runner, a role that included the famous tears in rain monologue. He also received the 1987 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for the television film Escape from Sobibor.
Hauer composed parts of the tears in rain monologue himself, the evening before filming, cutting away sections of the original script and adding the speech's final line. He did not write the monologue in full, but his contributions shaped its most quoted passage.
In 1999, the Dutch public named Rutger Hauer the Best Dutch Actor of the Century. That same year, Turkish Delight, one of his most prominent early films, was named the Best Dutch Film of the Century.
Rutger Hauer died on the 19th of July 2019, at his residence in the Netherlands. He was 75 years old and died from pancreatic cancer.
Director Paul Verhoeven decided that Hauer's physical frame was too large to move comfortably inside the RoboCop suit. Hauer had been set to play the title character in the 1987 film before Verhoeven made that determination.
Hauer founded the Rutger Hauer Starfish Association, an AIDS awareness organization. He was also a member of the board of advisors of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, reflecting his environmentalist commitments. In 2013, he was made a knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion in recognition of his public contributions.