Alan 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 Ga...
Known For
Top 40 Movies
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
Die Hard
1988
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007
Galaxy Quest
1999
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
Love Actually
2003
Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie
1991
Alice in Wonderland
2010
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
1995
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
2012
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
Sense and Sensibility
1995
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
2006
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
1991
Revolutionary Witness
1989
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004
BAM150
2012
Gambit
2012
Judge Not: In Defense of Dogma
2002
The Wildest Dream
2010
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
Dogma
1999
Judas Kiss
1998
Bottle Shock
2008
The Butler
2013
A Promise
2013
Something the Lord Made
2004
Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast
1992
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010
An Awfully Big Adventure
1995