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).
76 movies · 15 shows
Here We Are Kings: The Making of 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'
2022·0.0
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016·6.6
Eye in the Sky
2015·7.0
A Little Chaos
2015·6.3
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014·4.8
Dust
2013·6.8
CBGB
2013·6.3
Muse of Fire
2013·6.5
A Promise
2013·5.7
The Butler
2013·7.3
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
2012·0.0
BAM150
2012·0.0
Gambit
2012·5.5
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011·8.1
The Boy in the Bubble
2011·7.1
Portraits in Dramatic Time
2011·8.0
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010·7.7
The Song of Lunch
2010·6.6
The Wildest Dream
2010·7.0
Alice in Wonderland
2010·6.6
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010·8.0
Sonnet Number 12
2009·0.0
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009·7.7
Bottle Shock
2008·6.4
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd
2008·7.7
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007·7.2
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007·7.7
Nobel Son
2007·6.0
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
2006·7.4
Snow Cake
2006·7.1
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005·7.8
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005·6.7
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004·7.2
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004·7.7
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004·8.0
Something the Lord Made
2004·7.9
Love Actually
2003·7.1
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
2003·10.0
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002·7.7
Judge Not: In Defense of Dogma
2002·6.1
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001·7.9
The Search for John Gissing
2001·4.9
Play
2001·7.1
Blow Dry
2001·5.9
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000·7.0
Babitsky's War
2000·0.0
Dark Harbor
1999·5.0
Galaxy Quest
1999·7.1
Dogma
1999·6.9
Judas Kiss
1998·5.7
The Winter Guest
1997·6.5
Michael Collins
1996·6.9
Rasputin
1996·6.6
Lumière & Company
1995·6.3
Sense and Sensibility
1995·7.4
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
1995·7.3
An Awfully Big Adventure
1995·6.5
Mesmer
1994·6.0
Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast
1992·6.0
Bob Roberts
1992·6.5
Close My Eyes
1991·5.8
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
1991·6.9
Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie
1991·6.5
Truly Madly Deeply
1991·6.9
Closet Land
1991·6.6
Quigley Down Under
1990·6.7
Revolutionary Witness
1989·10.0
The Spirit of Man
1989·10.0
7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting
1989·0.0
The January Man
1989·5.0
Benefactors
1989·2.0
Die Hard
1988·7.8
Pity in History
1985·8.0
Wetherby
1985·6.0
Busted
1983·6.0
Romeo and Juliet
1978·7.6