Hampton Fancher

Hampton Fancher is an American actor, screenwriter and filmmaker, born in East Los Angeles, who started in screen acting, guest-starring on Western television series including The Rebel, Black Saddle, Have Gun Will Travel, Cheyenne and Bonanza, and appearing in the Troy Donahue films Parrish (1961) and Rome Adventure (1962). His screen credits ran to more than 50 films and television shows before he moved fully into screenwriting in the late 1970s. He wrote the screenplay for Blade Runner (1982), adapted from Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and co-wrote its sequel Blade Runner 2049 (2017) with Michael Green. His other credits include The Mighty Quinn (1989) and The Minus Man (1999), which he also directed and which won the jury's special grand prize at the Montreal World Film Festival. He published a screenwriting manual, The Wall Will Tell You, in 2019.