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).
★7.9
MOVIE2001
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
as Severus Snape
★7.7
MOVIE2002
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
as Severus Snape
★7.8
MOVIE2005
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Severus Snape
★7.7
MOVIE2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Severus Snape
★8.0
MOVIE2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as Severus Snape
★8.1
MOVIE2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Severus Snape
★7.7
MOVIE2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Severus Snape
★7.7
MOVIE2009
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
as Severus Snape
★6.6
MOVIE2010
Alice in Wonderland
as Absolem / Caterpillar (voice)
★7.8
MOVIE1988
Die Hard
as Hans Gruber
★7.1
MOVIE1999
Galaxy Quest
as Alexander Dane
★6.6
MOVIE2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Absolem / Caterpillar (voice)
★7.4
MOVIE2006
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
as Richis
★7.3
MOVIE1995
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
as Hans Gruber (archive footage) (uncredited)
★6.9
MOVIE1991
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
as Sheriff of Nottingham
★7.1
MOVIE2003
Love Actually
as Harry
★7.4
MOVIE1995
Sense and Sensibility
as Colonel Christopher Brandon
★7.2
MOVIE2007
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
as Judge Turpin
★6.7
MOVIE2005
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
as Marvin (voice)
★6.9
MOVIE1999
Dogma
as Metatron
★7.3
MOVIE2013
The Butler
as Ronald Reagan
★7.9
MOVIE2004
Something the Lord Made
as Dr. Alfred Blalock
★7.0
MOVIE2015
Eye in the Sky
as Lieutenant General Frank Benson
★6.3
MOVIE2015
A Little Chaos
as King Louis XIV
★6.7
MOVIE1990
Quigley Down Under
as Elliott Marston
★5.5
MOVIE2012
Gambit
as Lionel Shahbandar
★6.9
MOVIE1996
Michael Collins
as Eamon de Valera
★5.1
MOVIE1989
The January Man
as Ed
★5.7
MOVIE2013
A Promise
as Karl Hoffmeister
★5.8
MOVIE1991
Close My Eyes
as Sinclair
★6.3
MOVIE2013
CBGB
as Hilly Kristal
★6.5
MOVIE2013
Muse of Fire
as Self
★10.0
MOVIE2003
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
as Self - M
★5.9
MOVIE2001
Blow Dry
as Phil Allen
★6.5
MOVIE1997
The Winter Guest
as Man in street
★6.4
MOVIE2008
Bottle Shock
as Steven Spurrier
★5.0
MOVIE1999
Dark Harbor
as David Weinberg
★6.5
MOVIE1992
Bob Roberts
as Lukas Hart III
★6.9
MOVIE1991
Truly Madly Deeply
as Jamie
★7.0
MOVIE2010
The Wildest Dream
as Noel Odell (voice)
★5.7
MOVIE1998
Judas Kiss
as Detective David Friedman
★6.1
MOVIE2007
Nobel Son
as Eli Michaelson
★6.6
MOVIE2010
The Song of Lunch
as He
★7.1
MOVIE2011
The Boy in the Bubble
as The Storyteller (voice)
★6.6
MOVIE1991
Closet Land
as Interrogator
★6.6
MOVIE1996
Rasputin
as Grigori Rasputin
★6.5
MOVIE1995
An Awfully Big Adventure
as P.L. O'Hara
★7.1
MOVIE2001
Play
as Man
★6.0
MOVIE1994
Mesmer
as Franz Anton Mesmer
★7.1
MOVIE2006
Snow Cake
as Alex Hughes
★4.9
MOVIE2001
The Search for John Gissing
as John Gissing
MOVIE1989
7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting
as Narrator (voice)
★2.0
MOVIE1989
Benefactors
★7.6
MOVIE1978
Romeo and Juliet
as Tybalt
MOVIE2000
Babitsky's War
as Narrator
★7.0
MOVIE2000
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
as Captain George Fallon
★4.8
MOVIE2014
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
as Self
★10.0
MOVIE1989
Revolutionary Witness
as Jacques Roux
★6.5
MOVIE1991
Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE2010
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
as Self
★6.1
MOVIE2002
Judge Not: In Defense of Dogma
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE1985
Wetherby
as TV Commentator (archival footage)
★8.0
MOVIE2011
Portraits in Dramatic Time
★7.2
MOVIE2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)
★6.3
MOVIE1995
Lumière & Company
as (segment "John Boorman")
★7.7
MOVIE2004
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
as Self
MOVIE2012
BAM150
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE1992
Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast
★6.0
MOVIE1983
Busted
as Simon
★10.0
MOVIE1989
The Spirit of Man
as Israel Yates
★6.8
MOVIE2013
Dust
as Todd
MOVIE2012
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
as Self
MOVIE2022
Here We Are Kings: The Making of 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'
as Self (archive footage)
★7.7
MOVIE2008
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE1985
Pity in History
as Croop
MOVIE2009
Sonnet Number 12
as (voice)