1946-02-21 Acton, London, England, UK
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).
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Here We Are Kings: The Making of 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves' | Self (archive footage) | 2022-11-28 |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Weapons | Severus Snape | 2020-08-05 |
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Alice Through the Looking Glass | Absolem / Caterpillar (voice) | 2016-05-25 |
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A Little Chaos | King Louis XIV | 2015-03-26 |
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Eye in the Sky | Lieutenant General Frank Benson | 2015-09-07 |
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Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film | Self | 2014-08-25 |
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CBGB | Hilly Kristal | 2013-10-11 |
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The Butler | Ronald Reagan | 2013-08-16 |
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Dust | Todd | 2013-10-24 |
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A Promise | Karl Hoffmeister | 2013-09-04 |
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Muse of Fire | Self | 2013-09-26 |
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BAM150 | Self | 2012-04-27 |
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Gambit | Lionel Shahbandar | 2012-04-25 |
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Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard | Self | 2012-05-28 |
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The Boy in the Bubble | The Storyteller (voice) | 2011-07-08 |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | Severus Snape | 2011-07-12 |
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Portraits in Dramatic Time | 2011-07-05 | |
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Alice in Wonderland | Absolem / Caterpillar (voice) | 2010-03-03 |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Severus Snape | 2010-11-17 |
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Harold Pinter: A Celebration | Self | 2010-01-24 |
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The Wildest Dream | Noel Odell (voice) | 2010-08-06 |
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The Song of Lunch | He | 2010-10-08 |
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Adapting Austen | Self | 2009-03-17 |
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A Sense of Character | Self | 2009-03-17 |
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | Severus Snape | 2009-07-15 |
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Sonnet Number 12 | (voice) | 2009-12-31 |
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Bottle Shock | Steven Spurrier | 2008-09-05 |
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd | Self | 2008-04-01 |
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Severus Snape | 2007-07-08 |
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Judge Turpin | 2007-12-20 |
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Nobel Son | Eli Michaelson | 2007-04-28 |
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | Richis | 2006-09-13 |
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Snow Cake | Alex Hughes | 2006-09-08 |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Marvin (voice) | 2005-04-28 |
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Severus Snape | 2005-11-16 |
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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Other Voices (voice) | 2004-09-04 |
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The Magic Touch of Harry Potter | Self | 2004-06-11 |
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Something the Lord Made | Dr. Alfred Blalock | 2004-05-30 |
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Severus Snape | 2004-05-31 |
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Love Actually | Harry | 2003-09-07 |
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Judge Not: In Defense of Dogma | Self | 2002-09-03 |
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Severus Snape | 2002-11-13 |
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The Search for John Gissing | John Gissing | 2001-11-01 |
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Play | Man | 2001-07-14 |
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Blow Dry | Phil Allen | 2001-03-01 |
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | Severus Snape | 2001-11-16 |
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Babitsky's War | Narrator | 2000-09-04 |
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Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings | Captain George Fallon | 2000-12-25 |
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Dark Harbor | David Weinberg | 1999-12-31 |
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Dogma | Metatron | 1999-10-04 |
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Galaxy Quest | Alexander Dane | 1999-12-25 |
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Judas Kiss | Detective David Friedman | 1998-09-16 |
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The Winter Guest | Man in street | 1997-12-27 |
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Michael Collins | Eamon de Valera | 1996-10-25 |
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Rasputin | Grigori Rasputin | 1996-03-23 |
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Sense and Sensibility | Colonel Christopher Brandon | 1995-12-13 |
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An Awfully Big Adventure | P.L. O'Hara | 1995-05-11 |
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Lumière et Compagnie | (segment "John Boorman") | 1995-12-20 |
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Mesmer | Franz Anton Mesmer | 1994-08-25 |
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Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast | 1992-12-25 | |
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Bob Roberts | Lukas Hart III | 1992-09-04 |
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Close My Eyes | Sinclair | 1991-11-22 |
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Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie | Self | 1991-06-13 |
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Closet Land | Interrogator | 1991-03-06 |
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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | Sheriff of Nottingham | 1991-06-14 |
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Truly Madly Deeply | Jamie | 1991-05-03 |
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Quigley Down Under | Elliott Marston | 1990-10-17 |
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Revolutionary Witness | Jacques Roux | 1989-12-31 |
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The Spirit of Man | Israel Yates | 1989-08-23 |
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Benefactors | 1989-01-02 | |
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7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting | Narrator (voice) | 1989-01-17 |
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The January Man | Ed | 1989-01-13 |
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Die Hard | Hans Gruber | 1988-07-15 |
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Wetherby | TV Commentator (archival footage) | 1985-06-19 |
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Pity in History | Croop | 1985-07-04 |
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Busted | Simon | 1983-01-28 |
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Romeo and Juliet | Tybalt | 1978-12-03 |
