Alan Rickman
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Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (February 21, 1946 – January 14, 2016) was an English actor and director. Known for his deep, languid voice, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), performing in modern and classical theatre productions. He played the Vicomte de Valmont in the RSC stage production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses in 1985, and after the production transferred to the West End in 1986 and Broadway in 1987, he was nominated for a Tony Award. Rickman's first cinema role came when he was cast as the German terrorist leader Hans Gruber in Die Hard (1988). He also appeared as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), for which he received the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role; Elliott Marston in Quigley Down Under (1990); Jamie in Truly, Madly, Deeply (1991); Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility (1995); Eamon DeValera in Michael Collins (1997); Alexander Dane in Galaxy Quest (1999); Metatron in Dogma (1999); Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series (2001–2011); Harry in Love Actually (2003); Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005); and Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007). Rickman made his television acting debut playing Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (1978) as part of the BBC's Shakespeare series. His breakthrough role was in the BBC television adaptation of The Barchester Chronicles (1982). He later starred in television films, playing the title character in Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny (1996), which won him a Golden Globe Award, an Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and Alfred Blalock in Something the Lord Made (2004). Rickman died of pancreatic cancer on 14 January 2016 at age 69. His final film roles were as Lieutenant General Frank Benson in the thriller Eye in the Sky (2015), and reprising his role as the voice of the caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland (2010) in Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016).
Known for
Credits
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
as Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
as Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
as Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
as Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
as Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
as Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
as Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
as Severus Snape
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
as Absolem / Caterpillar (voice)
Die Hard (1988)
as Hans Gruber
Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
as Absolem / Caterpillar (voice)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
as Richis
Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
as Hans Gruber (archive footage) (uncredited)
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
as Colonel Christopher Brandon
Love Actually (2003)
as Harry
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
as Sheriff of Nottingham
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
as Judge Turpin
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
as Marvin (voice)
Dogma (1999)
as Metatron
Galaxy Quest (1999)
as Alexander Dane
Something the Lord Made (2004)
as Dr. Alfred Blalock
Eye in the Sky (2015)
as Lieutenant General Frank Benson
The Butler (2013)
as Ronald Reagan
Quigley Down Under (1990)
as Elliott Marston
Gambit (2012)
as Lionel Shahbandar
Bob Roberts (1992)
as Lukas Hart III
A Little Chaos (2015)
as King Louis XIV
Michael Collins (1996)
as Eamon de Valera
Close My Eyes (1991)
as Sinclair
A Promise (2013)
as Karl Hoffmeister
Bottle Shock (2008)
as Steven Spurrier
Blow Dry (2001)
as Phil Allen
Nobel Son (2007)
as Eli Michaelson
Muse of Fire (2013)
as Self
Snow Cake (2006)
as Alex Hughes
CBGB (2013)
as Hilly Kristal
Judas Kiss (1998)
as Detective David Friedman
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004)
as Other Voices (voice)
The Winter Guest (1997)
as Man in street
Rasputin (1996)
as Grigori Rasputin
The January Man (1989)
as Ed
Dark Harbor (1999)
as David Weinberg
Wetherby (1985)
as TV Commentator (archival footage)
Truly Madly Deeply (1991)
as Jamie
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter (2004)
as Self
Closet Land (1991)
as Interrogator
An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
as P.L. O'Hara
Lumière & Company (1995)
as (segment "John Boorman")
Judge Not: In Defense of Dogma (2002)
as Self
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film (2014)
as Self
Romeo and Juliet (1978)
as Tybalt
Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie (1991)
as Self
The Song of Lunch (2010)
as He
Mesmer (1994)
as Franz Anton Mesmer
The Wildest Dream (2010)
as Noel Odell (voice)
Harold Pinter: A Celebration (2010)
as Self
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings (2000)
as Captain George Fallon
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film (2003)
as Self - M
The Search for John Gissing (2001)
as John Gissing
Portraits in Dramatic Time (2011)
Actor
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd (2008)
as Self
Play (2001)
as Man
The Boy in the Bubble (2011)
as The Storyteller (voice)
Dust (2013)
as Todd
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard (2012)
as Self
The Spirit of Man (1989)
as Israel Yates
Here We Are Kings: The Making of 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves' (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Benefactors (1989)
Actor
7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting (1989)
as Narrator (voice)
Pity in History (1985)
as Croop
Babitsky's War (2000)
as Narrator
Busted (1983)
as Simon
Revolutionary Witness (1989)
as Jacques Roux
BAM150 (2012)
as Self
Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast (1992)
Actor
Sonnet Number 12 (2009)
as (voice)