Alan Rickman

Acting · 3.7 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: February 21, 1946 – January 14, 2016
From: Acton, London, England, UK

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).

Works

76 films

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

20017.9

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

20027.7

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

20057.8

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

20048.0

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

20118.1

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

20107.7

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

20077.7

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

20097.7

Die Hard

19887.8

Alice in Wonderland

20106.6

Die Hard: With a Vengeance

19957.3

Love Actually

20037.1

Galaxy Quest

19997.1

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

20067.4

Alice Through the Looking Glass

20166.6

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

19916.9

Sense and Sensibility

19957.4

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

20056.7

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

20077.2

Dogma

19996.9

The Butler

20137.3

Eye in the Sky

20157.0

Something the Lord Made

20047.9

Quigley Down Under

19906.7

Gambit

20125.5

Blow Dry

20015.9

Michael Collins

19966.9

A Little Chaos

20156.3

The January Man

19895.0

Bottle Shock

20086.4

A Promise

20135.7

Nobel Son

20076.0

The Winter Guest

19976.5

Snow Cake

20067.1

Judas Kiss

19985.7

CBGB

20136.4

Close My Eyes

19915.8

An Awfully Big Adventure

19956.5

Rasputin

19966.6

Bob Roberts

19926.6

Lumière & Company

19956.3

Truly Madly Deeply

19916.9

Muse of Fire

20136.5

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

20047.7

The Song of Lunch

20106.6

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

20007.0

Harold Pinter: A Celebration

20108.0

Judge Not: In Defense of Dogma

20026.1

Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film

200310.0

Dark Harbor

19995.0

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

20047.2

Wetherby

19856.0

Portraits in Dramatic Time

20118.0

Closet Land

19916.6

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film

20144.8

Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie

19916.5

The Boy in the Bubble

20117.1

Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast

19926.0

Benefactors

19892.0

7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting

1989

The Wildest Dream

20107.0

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd

20087.7

Play

20017.1

Babitsky's War

2000

Dust

20136.8

Mesmer

19946.0

The Search for John Gissing

20014.9

Romeo and Juliet

19787.6

Revolutionary Witness

198910.0

Here We Are Kings: The Making of 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'

2022

Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard

2012

The Spirit of Man

198910.0

BAM150

2012

Busted

19836.0

Sonnet Number 12

2009

Pity in History

19858.0