Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman 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 Val ... mont 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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| Organization | Category | Movie | |
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| Spirit Awards | Best Supporting Actor | The Guilty | Nominated |
| BAFTA Awards | Best Supporting Actor | The Madness of King George | Nominated |
The Barchester Chronicles
as Obadiah Slope
Episodes: 7
First Aired: Nov 10, 1982
Smiley's People
as Mr. Brownlow
Episodes: 6
First Aired: Sep 20, 1982
Therese Raquin
as Vidal
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Mar 12, 1980
Girls On Top
as Dimitri / Voice of RADA(voice)
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Oct 23, 1985
King of the Hill
as King Philip (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 12, 1997
The BBC Television Shakespeare
as Tybalt
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 03, 1978
Fallen Angels
as Dwight Billings
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 01, 1993
Honest Trailers
as Severus Snape (archive footage)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 13, 2012
The Movies That Made Us
as Hans Gruber (archive footage)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Nov 29, 2019
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 13, 1993
Shelley
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jul 12, 1979
The Hollywood Greats
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 04, 1977
Smiley's People
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 20, 1982
The Directors
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 01, 1999
Tony Awards
as Self - In Memoriam (archive footage)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 01, 1956
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 20, 1944
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee/Performer
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 01, 1956
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