Alan Rickman

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1946-02-21 (70 years old)

Deathday

2016-01-14

Place of Birth

Hammersmith, London, UK

Alan Rickman

Biography

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 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...

Acting

2006

Snow Cake

as Alex Hughes

1999

Galaxy Quest

as Alexander Dane

2003

1988

Die Hard

as Hans Gruber

1996

Michael Collins

as Eamon de Valera

1999

Dogma

as Metatron

1992

Bob Roberts

as Lukas Hart III

1995

Sense and Sensibility

as Colonel Christopher Brandon

2004

Something the Lord Made

as Dr. Alfred Blalock

1995

1991

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

as Sheriff of Nottingham

2010

Alice in Wonderland

as Absolem / Caterpillar (voice)

1990

Quigley Down Under

as Elliott Marston

2008

Bottle Shock

as Steven Spurrier

1998

Judas Kiss

as Detective David Friedman

2007

Nobel Son

as Eli Michaelson

2001

1996

Rasputin

as Grigori Rasputin

2001

Blow Dry

as Phil Allen

1991

1991

Close My Eyes

as Sinclair

1991

Closet Land

as Interrogator

1994

Mesmer

as Franz Anton Mesmer

2012

Gambit

as Lionel Shahbandar

1999

Dark Harbor

as David Weinberg

2013

CBGB

as Hilly Kristal

2001

Play

as Man

2013

The Butler

as Ronald Reagan

2013

A Promise

as Karl Hoffmeister

2011

The Boy in the Bubble

as The Storyteller (voice)

2015

A Little Chaos

as King Louis XIV

2013

Dust

as Todd

2012

BAM150

as Self

2016

Alice Through the Looking Glass

as Absolem / Caterpillar (voice)

1997

The Winter Guest

as Man in street

2015

Eye in the Sky

as Lieutenant General Frank Benson

1989

The Spirit of Man

as Israel Yates

1983

Busted

as Simon

1989

Revolutionary Witness

as Jacques Roux

2009

2000

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

as Captain George Fallon

1995

Lumière & Company

as (segment "John Boorman")

2010

The Wildest Dream

as Noel Odell (voice)

2013

1978

1985

Wetherby

as TV Commentator (archival footage)

2000

Babitsky's War

as Narrator

1989

7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting

as Narrator (voice)

Production

1997

The Winter Guest

as Director

2015

A Little Chaos

as Director

2015

1997

2015

Eye in the Sky

as In Memory Of

2016

The Limehouse Golem

as In Memory Of

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