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