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Farewell...
Rutger Hauer
1944-Words:^ CarenClark,^ Hannah^Davies,Joanne^LewisPhotos:^Alamy,BBC,^ GettyA sense of place...
Kate found a link
to ScandinaviaWhat’s Not!
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AWhat’s
onTV
Family favourite
On 22 July, Who
Do You Think You
Are? with Daniel
Radcliffe pulled in
3.6m viewers on
BBC1, up half a
million on the last
series opener. It
beat ITV’s Long
Lost Family (2.9m)
and Love Island
on ITV2 (3.3m).Fakes are
a flop
Hosted by Fiona
Bruce and Philip
Mould, the new
series of Fake or
Fortune? on BBC
struggled in its
new Thursday slot
on 25 July with 2.7m people
tuning in, dropping 1m viewers
from the opener of the last
series, which was on a Sunday.Discoveries...
Daniel RadcliffeDisappointed...
Fiona Bruce22-28 July 2019
A story of
survival
Kate Winslet
on uncovering
Swedish
roots and
prison tales
in Who Do
You Think
You Are?
Best known for...
Dutch actor Rutger
became famous
for his role as
murderous blond-
haired replicant
Roy Batty in Ridley
Scott’s cult 1982
sci-fi film Blade
Runner, starring
Harrison Ford.Other achievements...
As well as a string of movies,
including The Hitcher, Buffy the
Vampire Slayer, Sin City and
Batman Begins, Rutger made a
series of adverts for Guinness
in the 1990s. Recent TV roles
included True Blood (2013), the
US fantasy series Galavant
(2015) and BBC2’s The Last
Kingdom, as blind Viking Ravn.Family life...
He died aged 75 on 19 July at
home in the Netherlands after a
short illness. He’s survived by his
second wife and his daughter.Q
What was your family
like growing up?A
My parents never had
money, but we were
happy. My dad Roger, who
was an actor, did whatever
odd job he could. My mum
Sally loved children and
that sense of family has
carried on in us. She died
of cancer two years ago
and we miss her terribly.Q
What’s the appeal of Who
Do You Think You Are?A
Since my mum died,
I wanted to know more
about where I come from.
I remembered a rumour
about a Scandinavian link
and that’s something I
wanted to know about.Q
In Sweden, you
traced your
maternal ancestor
Anders Jönsson,
who died in jail
in the 1830s...A
It was
very sad.
He stolebecause he was starving
and his youngest child had
already died. His son Johan
would have been five, the
same age as Bear, my
youngest child. My mum’s
side is a story of survival in
the face of tragedy.Q
Your great-great-great-
grandfather on your dad’s
side, William Colquhoun,
joined the Grenadier Guards
in London as a drummer in
1810, when he was just 11.
Was that a shock?A
I wondered
whether that
was even allowedat that age! But I loved that
he was making something
of his life through hard work
and musical talent. I can
barely play a recorder!Q
As an adult, William
supervised Army
punishments and later
became warder at Dartmoor
Prison in Devon. Did you have
mixed feelings about that?A
I felt conflicted about
the man. When I visited
Dartmoor, I feared the
worst but it was a pleasant
surprise. What they were
doing there then was
progressive, and William
took great pleasure in that.Q
What will you take away
from this?A
I felt a connection to the
ancestors I learnt about.
I strive to remain grounded
and to pass that
on to my kids. But
since I come from
such beginnings,
maybe that’s in
my DNA! QWHO DO YOU
THINK YOU ARE?
Monday, 9pm BBC1 FactualWilliam’s life...
From the Army to
Dartmoor Prison