Cast
Alan Rickman
Acting
Cast
Alan Rickman
Known for
Acting
Born
1946-02-21
From
Acton, London, England, UK
Died
2016-01-14
Also known as Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
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).
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
as Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
as Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
as Severus Snape
Alice in Wonderland
as Absolem / Caterpillar (voice)
Love Actually
as Harry
Die Hard
as Hans Gruber
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Absolem / Caterpillar (voice)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
as Richis
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
as Hans Gruber (archive footage) (uncredited)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
as Sheriff of Nottingham
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
as Judge Turpin
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as Marvin (voice)
Sense and Sensibility
as Colonel Christopher Brandon
Galaxy Quest
as Alexander Dane
The Butler
as Ronald Reagan
Dogma
as Metatron
Eye in the Sky
as Lieutenant General Frank Benson
Gambit
as Lionel Shahbandar
Something the Lord Made
as Dr. Alfred Blalock
Michael Collins
as Eamon de Valera
Snow Cake
as Alex Hughes
Bottle Shock
as Steven Spurrier
Blow Dry
as Phil Allen
Close My Eyes
as Sinclair
Bob Roberts
as Lukas Hart III
Nobel Son
as Eli Michaelson
Quigley Down Under
as Elliott Marston
CBGB
as Hilly Kristal
A Little Chaos
as King Louis XIV
Play
as Man
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)
Dark Harbor
as David Weinberg
Lumière & Company
as (segment "John Boorman")
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
as Self
Muse of Fire
as Self
Rasputin
as Grigori Rasputin
Truly Madly Deeply
as Jamie
Judas Kiss
as Detective David Friedman
Mesmer
as Franz Anton Mesmer
The January Man
as Ed
A Promise
as Karl Hoffmeister
Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie
as Self
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
as Self - M
Wetherby
as TV Commentator (archival footage)
Judge Not: In Defense of Dogma
as Self
The Winter Guest
as Man in street
The Wildest Dream
as Noel Odell (voice)
An Awfully Big Adventure
as P.L. O'Hara
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
as Self
The Search for John Gissing
as John Gissing
Portraits in Dramatic Time
Revolutionary Witness
as Jacques Roux
The Song of Lunch
as He
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd
as Self
Here We Are Kings: The Making of 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'
as Self (archive footage)
Romeo and Juliet
as Tybalt
The Boy in the Bubble
as The Storyteller (voice)
Benefactors
7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting
as Narrator (voice)
The Spirit of Man
as Israel Yates
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
as Self
Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
as Captain George Fallon
Busted
as Simon
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
as Self
Dust
as Todd
BAM150
as Self
Closet Land
as Interrogator
Babitsky's War
as Narrator
Pity in History
as Croop
Sonnet Number 12
as (voice)