Alan Rickman
7 FOLLOWERS • 41 CREDITS • FEB 21, 1946 - JAN 14, 2016 • 69
Biography
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
Tony Awards
Golden Globe Awards
The Movies That Made Us
Honest Trailers
Fallen Angels
King of the Hill
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
The Butler
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The Wildest Dream
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Dogma
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Michael Collins
Bob Roberts
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Eye in the Sky
Sense and Sensibility
A Little Chaos
Quigley Down Under
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Die Hard
Love Actually
Nobel Son
An Awfully Big Adventure
Something the Lord Made
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Production Credits
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