Alan Rickman
Known for Acting · 90 credits
- Born
- 1946-02-21
- Died
- 2016-01-14
- Place of birth
- Acton, London, England, UK
- 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).
Known For
King of the Hill
1997
as King Philip (voice)
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Presenter / Self - Winner
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
as Severus Snape
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee / Performer / Self - In Memoriam (archive footage)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
as Severus Snape
TV Shows (14)
King of the Hill
1997
as King Philip (voice)
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Presenter / Self - Winner
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee / Performer / Self - In Memoriam (archive footage)
Fallen Angels
1993
as Dwight Billings
The Movies That Made Us
2019
as Hans Gruber (archive footage)
ScreenPlay
1986
as Israel Yates
The Directors
1999
as Self
Shelley
1979
Smiley's People
1982
as Mr Brownlow
Girls On Top
1985
as Dimitri / Voice of RADA(voice)
The Hollywood Greats
1977
The Barchester Chronicles
1982
as Obadiah Slope
Therese Raquin
1980
as Vidal
Movies (76)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
as Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
as Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
as Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
as Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
as Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
as Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
as Severus Snape
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009
as Severus Snape
Alice in Wonderland
2010
as Absolem / Caterpillar (voice)
Die Hard
1988
as Hans Gruber
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
as Absolem / Caterpillar (voice)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
1991
as Sheriff of Nottingham
Love Actually
2003
as Harry
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
2006
as Richis
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
1995
as Hans Gruber (archive footage) (uncredited)
Sense and Sensibility
1995
as Colonel Christopher Brandon
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
as Marvin (voice)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007
as Judge Turpin
The Butler
2013
as Ronald Reagan
Dogma
1999
as Metatron
Galaxy Quest
1999
as Alexander Dane
Eye in the Sky
2015
as Lieutenant General Frank Benson
Gambit
2012
as Lionel Shahbandar
Blow Dry
2001
as Phil Allen
Something the Lord Made
2004
as Dr. Alfred Blalock
Michael Collins
1996
as Eamon de Valera
A Little Chaos
2015
as King Louis XIV
Quigley Down Under
1990
as Elliott Marston
Close My Eyes
1991
as Sinclair
Bob Roberts
1992
as Lukas Hart III
Snow Cake
2006
as Alex Hughes
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
as Other Voices (voice)
Nobel Son
2007
as Eli Michaelson
CBGB
2013
as Hilly Kristal
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004
as Self
Bottle Shock
2008
as Steven Spurrier
Lumière & Company
1995
as (segment "John Boorman")
A Promise
2013
as Karl Hoffmeister
Truly Madly Deeply
1991
as Jamie
Judas Kiss
1998
as Detective David Friedman
The January Man
1989
as Ed
Muse of Fire
2013
as Self
Rasputin
1996
as Grigori Rasputin
Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie
1991
as Self
Mesmer
1994
as Franz Anton Mesmer
An Awfully Big Adventure
1995
as P.L. O'Hara
Judge Not: In Defense of Dogma
2002
as Self
Dark Harbor
1999
as David Weinberg
Wetherby
1985
as TV Commentator (archival footage)
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014
as Self
The Winter Guest
1997
as Man in street
Play
2001
as Man
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd
2008
as Self
Portraits in Dramatic Time
2011
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010
as Self
The Search for John Gissing
2001
as John Gissing
The Wildest Dream
2010
as Noel Odell (voice)
Revolutionary Witness
1989
as Jacques Roux
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
as Captain George Fallon
7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting
1989
as Narrator (voice)
Here We Are Kings: The Making of 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'
2022
as Self (archive footage)
The Song of Lunch
2010
as He
Dust
2013
as Todd
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
2012
as Self
BAM150
2012
as Self
Romeo and Juliet
1978
as Tybalt
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
2003
as Self - M
The Boy in the Bubble
2011
as The Storyteller (voice)
The Spirit of Man
1989
as Israel Yates
Closet Land
1991
as Interrogator
Busted
1983
as Simon
Benefactors
1989
Babitsky's War
2000
as Narrator
Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast
1992
Pity in History
1985
as Croop
Sonnet Number 12
2009
as (voice)
About 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… With 90 credits spanning from 1944 to 2022, Alan Rickman has appeared in 76 films and 14 TV shows.
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- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) — as Severus Snape
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) — as Severus Snape
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) — as Severus Snape
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) — as Severus Snape
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) — as Severus Snape
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