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