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).
Filmography · 89
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Nominee / Perfo...
King of the Hill
1997 · King Philip (voice)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001 · Severus Snape
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Self - Presenter
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011 · Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005 · Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002 · Severus Snape
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Self - Guest
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004 · Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010 · Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009 · Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007 · Severus Snape
Die Hard
1988 · Hans Gruber
Alice in Wonderland
2010 · Absolem / Caterpillar...
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
1995 · Hans Gruber (archive f...
Galaxy Quest
1999 · Alexander Dane
ScreenPlay
1986 · Israel Yates
Love Actually
2003 · Harry
Fallen Angels
1993 · Dwight Billings
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
2006 · Richis
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016 · Absolem / Caterpillar...
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
1991 · Sheriff of Nottingham
The Movies That Made Us
2019 · Hans Gruber (archive f...
Sense and Sensibility
1995 · Colonel Christopher Br...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005 · Marvin (voice)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007 · Judge Turpin
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978 · Tybalt
Dogma
1999 · Metatron
The Directors
1999 · Self
Something the Lord Made
2004 · Dr. Alfred Blalock
Shelley
1979
Eye in the Sky
2015 · Lieutenant General Fra...
The Butler
2013 · Ronald Reagan
Quigley Down Under
1990 · Elliott Marston
Smiley's People
1982 · Mr Brownlow
Girls On Top
1985 · Dimitri / Voice of RAD...
The Hollywood Greats
1977
The Barchester Chronicles
1982 · Obadiah Slope
Gambit
2012 · Lionel Shahbandar
Michael Collins
1996 · Eamon de Valera
A Little Chaos
2015 · King Louis XIV
The January Man
1989 · Ed
Snow Cake
2006 · Alex Hughes
Wetherby
1985 · TV Commentator (archiv...
Blow Dry
2001 · Phil Allen
Bottle Shock
2008 · Steven Spurrier
Close My Eyes
1991 · Sinclair
The Winter Guest
1997 · Man in street
CBGB
2013 · Hilly Kristal
A Promise
2013 · Karl Hoffmeister
Judas Kiss
1998 · Detective David Friedm...
Bob Roberts
1992 · Lukas Hart III
Muse of Fire
2013 · Self
Therese Raquin
1980 · Vidal
Nobel Son
2007 · Eli Michaelson
An Awfully Big Adventure
1995 · P.L. O'Hara
Lumière & Company
1995 · (segment "John Boorman...
Judge Not: In Defense of Dogma
2002 · Self
Rasputin
1996 · Grigori Rasputin
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010 · Self
Truly Madly Deeply
1991 · Jamie
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
2003 · Self - M
Dust
2013 · Todd
Play
2001 · Man
7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting
1989 · Narrator (voice)
The Boy in the Bubble
2011 · The Storyteller (voice...
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004 · Other Voices (voice)
The Song of Lunch
2010 · He
Dark Harbor
1999 · David Weinberg
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004 · Self
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000 · Captain George Fallon
Closet Land
1991 · Interrogator
Romeo and Juliet
1978 · Tybalt
The Wildest Dream
2010 · Noel Odell (voice)
Portraits in Dramatic Time
2011
The Search for John Gissing
2001 · John Gissing
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014 · Self
Here We Are Kings: The Making of 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Mesmer
1994 · Franz Anton Mesmer
Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie
1991 · Self
Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast
1992
Babitsky's War
2000 · Narrator
The Spirit of Man
1989 · Israel Yates
Revolutionary Witness
1989 · Jacques Roux
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
2012 · Self
BAM150
2012 · Self
Busted
1983 · Simon
Pity in History
1985 · Croop
Sonnet Number 12
2009 · (voice)