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