
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 | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.536 |
Birthday | 1946-02-21 |
Place of Birth | Hammersmith, London, UK |
Also Known As | 艾倫·瑞克曼, 앨런 릭먼, แอลัน ริกแมน, アラン・リックマン, ألان ريكمان, Άλαν Ρίκμαν, آلن ریکمن, آلن ریکمن, آلن ریكمن, |

2006

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2009

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1996

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1995

Sense and Sensibility
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2004

Something the Lord Made
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1995

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2005

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1991

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The January Man
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2010

Alice in Wonderland
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2010

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
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2011

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
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1990

Quigley Down Under
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2008

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2001

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1998

Judas Kiss
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2007

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2001

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1996

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2001

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Truly Madly Deeply
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2010

The Song of Lunch
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Close My Eyes
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Closet Land
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2012

Gambit
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Dark Harbor
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2013

CBGB
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2013

The Butler
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2004

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
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2013

A Promise
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2011

The Boy in the Bubble
7.1/7
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Benefactors
2/1
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A Little Chaos
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Dust
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2012

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Eye in the Sky
7/1590
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Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie
6/1
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1989

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Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
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2011

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2009

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1989

Revolutionary Witness
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1983

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6/2
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2000

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
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1995

Lumière & Company
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2010

The Wildest Dream
7/35
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2013

Muse of Fire
6.5/2
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2010

Harold Pinter: A Celebration
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1992

Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast
5.5/2
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1978

Romeo & Juliet
7.4/5
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2012

Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
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2004

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
7.1/26
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2008

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd
7.6/37
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1985

Wetherby
6/36
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2000

Babitsky's War
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1989

7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting
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