Alan Rickman
Acting
Born: February 21, 1946 · Acton, London, England, UK
Died: January 14, 2016 (aged 69)
Highest Rated
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
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
Alice in Wonderland
2010
Die Hard
1988
Love Actually
2003
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
Photos (19)
Movies (64)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Severus Snape
Die Hard
Hans Gruber
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Severus Snape
Alice in Wonderland
Absolem / Caterpillar (voice)
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
Hans Gruber (archive footage) (uncredited)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Sheriff of Nottingham
Love Actually
Harry
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Richis
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Absolem / Caterpillar (voice)
Sense and Sensibility
Colonel Christopher Brandon
Galaxy Quest
Alexander Dane
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Judge Turpin
Dogma
Metatron
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Marvin (voice)
Eye in the Sky
Lieutenant General Frank Benson
Something the Lord Made
Dr. Alfred Blalock
The Butler
Ronald Reagan
Gambit
Lionel Shahbandar
A Little Chaos
King Louis XIV
Michael Collins
Eamon de Valera
Quigley Down Under
Elliott Marston
Judas Kiss
Detective David Friedman
Nobel Son
Eli Michaelson
Blow Dry
Phil Allen
Close My Eyes
Sinclair
Bottle Shock
Steven Spurrier
The Winter Guest
Man in street
The January Man
Ed
CBGB
Hilly Kristal
Snow Cake
Alex Hughes
Bob Roberts
Lukas Hart III
An Awfully Big Adventure
P.L. O'Hara
Lumière & Company
(segment "John Boorman")
A Promise
Karl Hoffmeister
Rasputin
Grigori Rasputin
Truly Madly Deeply
Jamie
Closet Land
Interrogator
Dark Harbor
David Weinberg
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Other Voices (voice)
The Song of Lunch
He
The Wildest Dream
Noel Odell (voice)
Play
Man
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Captain George Fallon
Wetherby
TV Commentator (archival footage)
The Boy in the Bubble
The Storyteller (voice)
Dust
Todd
The Search for John Gissing
John Gissing
Mesmer
Franz Anton Mesmer
Romeo and Juliet
Tybalt
Portraits in Dramatic Time
2011
Pity in History
Croop
7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting
Narrator (voice)
Babitsky's War
Narrator
Busted
Simon
Revolutionary Witness
Jacques Roux
Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast
1992
The Spirit of Man
Israel Yates
Sonnet Number 12
(voice)
TV Shows (11)
King of the Hill
King Philip (voice) · 1 eps
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Tybalt · 1 eps
Fallen Angels
Dwight Billings · 1 eps
ScreenPlay
Israel Yates · 1 eps
The Movies That Made Us
Hans Gruber (archive footage) · 1 eps
The Hollywood Greats
1 eps
Shelley
1 eps
Smiley's People
Mr Brownlow · 1 eps
The Barchester Chronicles
Obadiah Slope · 5 eps
Girls On Top
Dimitri / Voice of RADA(voice) · 2 eps
Therese Raquin
Vidal · 3 eps
Self / Appearances (16)
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter · 1 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Winner · 1 eps
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee / Performer · 1 eps
Tony Awards
Self - In Memoriam (archive footage) · 1 eps
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Directors
Self · 1 eps
Muse of Fire
Self
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
Self - M
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Self
Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie
Self
Here We Are Kings: The Making of 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'
Self (archive footage)
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Self
Judge Not: In Defense of Dogma
Self
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
Self
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
Self
BAM150
Self
