If you want to really remember him? Go find the film Ladyhawke. It's a campy sort of 1980s fantasy film with Matthew Broderick, except it's an excellent story concept and Hauer brings a gravitas to the film and character that it really didn't deserve...but damn he sells it.
I would add Nighthawks, which is underappreciated. But you want to see how good he could be? Find The Legend of the Holy Drinker, a late '80s or early '90s Italian film. He plays a drunk who is lent much needed money by a benefactor who only asks he one day pays it back to the local church, something the universe seems bent on preventing. It is a bit of an odd film, sometimes rambling and always just on one side of a dreamworld or the other. I only saw it once, but Hauer's performance stuck with me thirty-odd years later.
This was the year that Blade Runner was supposed to take place. The coincidence is a little disturbing.
:'( RIP Mr. Rutger Hauer WOW!! I read it the other day it kind of hit me he gone. The actor who can play great bad guy and great good guy. The one thing that get me is why LadyHawke is never get talk about as good film. Rutger H. ,Matt B. and Michelle P had great chemistry in that film. LadyHawke is my all time fav. I know Michelle P dose not mention she was in it , I thought she great in it. I see a lot of film titles he was in but what was the name of the film he was hunting Gene Simmon in ? I have pull some his dvd out to watch. What a bummer.
