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.Rickmans 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 Hitchhikers 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 BBCs 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).
Colonel Christopher Brandon
Film 1995
Dr. Alfred Blalock
Film 2004
Sheriff of Nottingham
Film 1991
Elliott Marston
Film 1990
Self
Film 2001
Jamie
Film 1991
He
Film 2010
Interrogator
Film 1991
David Weinberg
Film 1999
Man
Film 2001
Self
Film 2004
Karl Hoffmeister
Film 2013
Storyteller
Film 2011
Film 1989
Todd
Film 2013
Self
Film 2012
Self
Film 1991
Israel Yates
Film 1989
Self
Film 2014
Simon
Film 1983
Jacques Roux
Film 1989
Film 2011
(voice)
Film 2009
(segment "John Boorman")
Film 1995
Noel Odell (voice)
Film 2010
Self
Film 2013
Self
Film 2010
Film 1992
Self
Film 2012
Other Voices (voice)
Film 2004
Self
Film 2008
Narrator
Film 2000
Narrator (voice)
Film 1989
Self - Guest
Tv 1993
Tv 1979
Tv 1977
Dwight Billings
Tv 1993
Severus Snape (archive footage)
Tv 2012
Self
Tv 1999
Hans Gruber (archive footage)
Tv 2019
Self - In Memoriam (archive footage)
Tv 1956
Self - Presenter
Tv 1944