8 Amazing Facts About Rutger Hauer's Epic BLADE RUNNER Death Speech
Blade Runner (1982) - Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) Find out a few things you probably didn't know about Rutger Hauer's classic death speech in Blade Runner. Rutger Hauer passed away July 19, 2019, at age 75. Rutger Oelsen Hauer was born January 24, 1944, in Breukelen, Netherlands. Hauer acted in films and television for decades and was made a knight in the "Order of the Netherlands Lion" in 2013. His science-fiction work is legendary from low-budget films like Split Second (1992) to blockbusters like Batman Begins . But his work on Blade Runner is what most people remember. Watch the scene below "Tears in rain" (also known as the "C-Beams Speech") is one of the most moving speeches in film history. It appears in the 1982 neo-noir science fiction film Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott, starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos. The film is loosely adapted from the 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ...