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).
90 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 90
King of the Hill
1997
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
Tony Awards
1956
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
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
Alice in Wonderland
2010
Fallen Angels
1993
Die Hard
1988
The Movies That Made Us
2019
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
2006
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
1995
Love Actually
2003
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
1991
ScreenPlay
1986
The Directors
1999
Sense and Sensibility
1995
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
Smiley's People
1982
Girls On Top
1985
Dogma
1999
Galaxy Quest
1999
The Butler
2013
Shelley
1979
The Hollywood Greats
1977
The Barchester Chronicles
1982
Eye in the Sky
2015
A Little Chaos
2015
Something the Lord Made
2004
Gambit
2012
Michael Collins
1996
Quigley Down Under
1990
Blow Dry
2001
Close My Eyes
1991
Therese Raquin
1980
Bottle Shock
2008
CBGB
2013
Bob Roberts
1992
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
Snow Cake
2006
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004
Nobel Son
2007
Rasputin
1996
Lumière & Company
1995
An Awfully Big Adventure
1995
A Promise
2013
Judas Kiss
1998
Muse of Fire
2013
Judge Not: In Defense of Dogma
2002
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014
The January Man
1989
Truly Madly Deeply
1991
Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie
1991
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
Wetherby
1985
Portraits in Dramatic Time
2011
Dark Harbor
1999
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd
2008
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010
The Search for John Gissing
2001
The Winter Guest
1997
Mesmer
1994
The Wildest Dream
2010
Here We Are Kings: The Making of 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'
2022
Dust
2013
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
2012
Play
2001
Romeo and Juliet
1978
The Song of Lunch
2010
The Boy in the Bubble
2011
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
2003
Revolutionary Witness
1989
Closet Land
1991
7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting
1989
The Spirit of Man
1989
Busted
1983
BAM150
2012
Benefactors
1989
Babitsky's War
2000
Sonnet Number 12
2009
Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast
1992
Pity in History
1985