Hollywood star’s curtain call at Ealing Hospital
He played a renegade replicant in Blade Runner , a vengeful down-and-out in Hobo with a Shotgun and you certainly wouldn’t have given him a lift if you watched The Hitcher.
Actor Rutger Hauer, who recently passed away, filmed some of the last scenes of his career in Ealing Hospital in the comedy series Porters.
It might have seemed a rather subdued curtain call after a Hollywood career spanning more than 40 years which included roles in Batman, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Sin City.
However, the TV show provided a fitting finale as it followed the hapless (mis)adventures of a hospital porter with an eye on becoming a doctor.
Hauer plays Tillman, an ex-golf pro who heads the porters in the fictitious St. Etheldreda's Hospital
“I giggled and screamed when I first read the scripts,” recalled the actor.
“It's such a fine mix, ambiguous, under stated or over the top but always with wit, which is in the British DNA.”