Alan Rickman
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
- 2019 · The Movies That Made Us as Hans Gruber (archive footage)
- 2016 · Alice Through the Looking Glass as Blue Caterpillar (voice)
- 2015 · Eye in the Sky as Lieutenant General Frank Benson
- 2015 · A Little Chaos as King Louis XIV
- 2014 · Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film as Self
- 2013 · Dust as Todd
- 2013 · CBGB as Hilly Kristal
- 2013 · Muse of Fire as Self
- 2013 · A Promise as Karl Hoffmeister
- 2013 · The Butler as Ronald Reagan
- 2012 · Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard as Himself
- 2012 · BAM150 as Self
- 2012 · Gambit as Lionel Shahbandar
- 2012 · Honest Trailers as Severus Snape (archive footage)
- 2011 · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Severus Snape
- 2011 · The Boy in the Bubble as Storyteller
- 2011 · Portraits in Dramatic Time as
- 2010 · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as Severus Snape
- 2010 · The Song of Lunch as He
- 2010 · The Wildest Dream as Noel Odell (voice)
- 2010 · Alice in Wonderland as The Caterpillar (voice)
- 2010 · Harold Pinter: A Celebration as Self
- 2009 · Sonnet Number 12 as (voice)
- 2009 · Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as Severus Snape
- 2008 · Bottle Shock as Steven Spurrier
- 2008 · Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd as Self
- 2007 · Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as Judge Turpin
- 2007 · Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as Severus Snape
- 2007 · Nobel Son as Eli Michaelson
- 2006 · Perfume: The Story of a Murderer as Richis
- 2006 · Snow Cake as Alex Hughes
- 2005 · Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as Severus Snape
- 2005 · The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as Marvin (voice)
- 2004 · Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
- 2004 · The Magic Touch of Harry Potter as Self
- 2004 · Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as Severus Snape
- 2004 · Something the Lord Made as Dr. Alfred Blalock
- 2003 · Love Actually as Harry
- 2002 · Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as Severus Snape
- 2001 · Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as Severus Snape
- 2001 · The Search for John Gissing as John Gissing
- 2001 · Play as Man
- 2001 · Blow Dry as Phil Allen
- 2001 · Judge Not: In Defense of Dogma as Self
- 2000 · Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings as Captain George Fallon
- 2000 · Babitsky's War as Narrator
- 1999 · Dark Harbor as David Weinberg
- 1999 · Galaxy Quest as Alexander Dane
- 1999 · Dogma as Metatron
- 1999 · The Directors as Self
- 1998 · Judas Kiss as Detective David Friedman
- 1997 · The Winter Guest as Man in street
- 1997 · King of the Hill as King Philip (voice)
- 1996 · Michael Collins as Eamon de Valera
- 1996 · Rasputin as Grigori Rasputin
- 1995 · Lumière and Company as (segment "John Boorman")
- 1995 · Sense and Sensibility as Colonel Christopher Brandon
- 1995 · An Awfully Big Adventure as P.L. O'Hara
- 1994 · Mesmer as Franz Anton Mesmer
- 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- 1993 · Fallen Angels as Dwight Billings
- 1992 · Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast as
- 1992 · Bob Roberts as Lukas Hart III
- 1991 · Close My Eyes as Sinclair
- 1991 · Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves as Sheriff of Nottingham
- 1991 · Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie as Self
- 1991 · Truly Madly Deeply as Jamie
- 1991 · Closet Land as Interrogator
- 1990 · Quigley Down Under as Elliott Marston
- 1989 · Revolutionary Witness as Jacques Roux
- 1989 · The Spirit of Man as Israel Yates
- 1989 · 7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting as Narrator (voice)
- 1989 · The January Man as Ed
- 1989 · Benefactors as
- 1988 · Die Hard as Hans Gruber
- 1985 · Girls On Top as Dimitri / Voice of RADA(voice)
- 1985 · Wetherby as TV Commentator (archival footage)
- 1983 · Busted as Simon
- 1982 · The Barchester Chronicles as Obadiah Slope
- 1982 · Smiley's People as
- 1982 · Smiley's People as Mr. Brownlow
- 1980 · Thérèse Raquin as Vidal
- 1979 · Shelley as
- 1978 · Romeo & Juliet as Tybalt
- 1978 · BBC Television Shakespeare as Tybalt
- 1977 · The Hollywood Greats as
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - In Memoriam (archive footage)
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter