Offscreen Notes
Wings Hauser 1947-2025
With over 100 credits Wings Hauser was the epitome of your hard working actor who never achieved stardom but earned his keep as a nearly leading man (whose blond looks could see him mistaken for namesake Rutger Hauser) who worked consistently in supporting roles in major films/TV shows and lead roles in lower budget films. His most memorable role for me was his turn as the ghostly carpenter Ed in The Carpenter (David Wellington, 1988), where he supports (or is a subjective projection of?) a mentally unsound housewife Alice Jarrett (Lynne Adams, dead ringer for her sister Brooke) left to supervise her husband's renovation of their country home. When a worker tries to rape Alice, Ed comes to her defense, using his power tools to dispatch the rapist in the first of many grisly murders.
