Alan Rickman
Acting
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).
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Alan Rickman
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Filmography of
Alan Rickman
Self (archive footage)
... 2022
Absolem / Caterpillar (voice)
... 2016
Lieutenant General Frank Benson
... 2015
King Louis XIV
... 2015
... 2014
Todd
... 2013
Hilly Kristal
... 2013
Self
... 2013
Karl Hoffmeister
... 2013
Ronald Reagan
... 2013
... 2012
Self
... 2012
Lionel Shahbandar
... 2012
Severus Snape
... 2011
The Storyteller (voice)
... 2011
... 2011
Severus Snape
... 2010
... 2010
Noel Odell (voice)
... 2010
Absolem / Caterpillar (voice)
... 2010
... 2010
(voice)
... 2009
Severus Snape
... 2009
Self
... 2009
Self
... 2009
Steven Spurrier
... 2008
Judge Turpin
... 2007
Severus Snape
... 2007
Eli Michaelson
... 2007
... 2006
Alex Hughes
... 2006
Severus Snape
... 2005
Marvin (voice)
... 2005
Other Voices (voice)
... 2004
... 2004
Severus Snape
... 2004
Dr. Alfred Blalock
... 2004
Harry
... 2003
Severus Snape
... 2002
... 2002
Severus Snape
... 2001
John Gissing
... 2001
Man
... 2001
Phil Allen
... 2001
Captain George Fallon
... 2000
Narrator
... 2000
David Weinberg
... 1999
Alexander Dane
... 1999
Metatron
... 1999
Detective David Friedman
... 1998
Man in street
... 1997
Eamon de Valera
... 1996
Grigori Rasputin
... 1996
(segment "John Boorman")
... 1995
Colonel Christopher Brandon
... 1995
P.L. O'Hara
... 1995
Franz Anton Mesmer
... 1994
... 1992
Lukas Hart III
... 1992
Sinclair
... 1991
Sheriff of Nottingham
... 1991
... 1991
Jamie
... 1991
Interrogator
... 1991
Elliott Marston
... 1990
Jacques Roux
... 1989
Israel Yates
... 1989
Narrator (voice)
... 1989
... 1989
... 1989
Hans Gruber
... 1988
Croop
... 1985
TV Commentator (archival footage)
... 1985
Simon
... 1983
Tybalt
... 1978