Alan Rickman
Acting
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).
Born: February 21, 1946
Place of Birth: Acton, London, England, UK
Known For
Filmography
as Hans Gruber (archive footage)
as Absolem / Caterpillar (voice)
as Lieutenant General Frank Benson
as King Louis XIV
as Todd
as Hilly Kristal
as Self
as Karl Hoffmeister
as Ronald Reagan
as Lionel Shahbandar
as Severus Snape
as The Storyteller (voice)
as Severus Snape
as He
as Noel Odell (voice)
as Absolem / Caterpillar (voice)
as Self
as (voice)
as Severus Snape
as Steven Spurrier
as Judge Turpin
as Severus Snape
as Eli Michaelson
as Richis
as Alex Hughes
as Severus Snape
as Marvin (voice)
as Other Voices (voice)
as Severus Snape
as Dr. Alfred Blalock
as Harry
as Severus Snape
as Severus Snape
as John Gissing
as Man
as Phil Allen
as Captain George Fallon
as Narrator
as David Weinberg
as Alexander Dane
as Metatron
as Self
as Detective David Friedman
as Man in street
as King Philip (voice)
as Eamon de Valera
as Grigori Rasputin
as (segment "John Boorman")
as Colonel Christopher Brandon
as P.L. O'Hara
as Franz Anton Mesmer
as Self - Guest
as Dwight Billings
as Lukas Hart III
as Sinclair
as Sheriff of Nottingham
as Jamie
as Interrogator
as Elliott Marston
as Jacques Roux
as Israel Yates
as Narrator (voice)
as Ed
as Hans Gruber
as Dimitri / Voice of RADA(voice)
as Croop
as TV Commentator (archival footage)
as Simon
as Obadiah Slope
as Mr. Brownlow
as Vidal
as Tybalt
as Self - Nominee/Performer
as Self - Presenter