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