Cast & creator
Alan Rickman
Best known for King of the Hill, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Golden Globe Awards
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).
Also known as: Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
86
film credits
17
television credits
94
1944–2022 · acting roles
6.8
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (103)
Showing 103 of 103 credits
King of the Hill
King Philip (voice)
1997
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter
1944Golden Globe Awards
Self - Winner
1944
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee / Performer
1956Tony Awards
Self - In Memoriam (archive footage)
1956
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Severus Snape
2001
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Severus Snape
2002
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Severus Snape
2004
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Severus Snape
2005
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Severus Snape
2007
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Severus Snape
2011
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Severus Snape
2009
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Severus Snape
2010
Alice in Wonderland
Absolem / Caterpillar (voice)
2010
ScreenPlay
Israel Yates
1986
Die Hard
Hans Gruber
1988
Love Actually
Harry
2003
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Tybalt
1978
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Absolem / Caterpillar (voice)
2016Alice Through the Looking Glass
In Memory Of
2016
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Richis
2006
Fallen Angels
Dwight Billings
1993
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
Hans Gruber (archive footage) (uncredited)
1995
The Movies That Made Us
Hans Gruber (archive footage)
2019
Sense and Sensibility
Colonel Christopher Brandon
1995
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Judge Turpin
2007
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Marvin (voice)
2005
Eye in the Sky
Lieutenant General Frank Benson
2015Eye in the Sky
In Memory Of
2015
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Sheriff of Nottingham
1991
Galaxy Quest
Alexander Dane
1999
The Directors
Self
1999
A Little Chaos
King Louis XIV
2015A Little Chaos
Director
2015A Little Chaos
Writer
2015
Shelley
1979
Smiley's People
Mr Brownlow
1982
Dogma
Metatron
1999
The Butler
Ronald Reagan
2013
Something the Lord Made
Dr. Alfred Blalock
2004
Girls On Top
Dimitri / Voice of RADA(voice)
1985
The Barchester Chronicles
Obadiah Slope
1982
The Hollywood Greats
1977
The Limehouse Golem
In Memory Of
2016
Quigley Down Under
Elliott Marston
1990
Michael Collins
Eamon de Valera
1996
The January Man
Ed
1989
An Awfully Big Adventure
P.L. O'Hara
1995
A Promise
Karl Hoffmeister
2013
Gambit
Lionel Shahbandar
2012
Bottle Shock
Steven Spurrier
2008
Therese Raquin
Vidal
1980
Judas Kiss
Detective David Friedman
1998
CBGB
Hilly Kristal
2013
The Winter Guest
Man in street
1997The Winter Guest
Director
1997The Winter Guest
Writer
1997
Nobel Son
Eli Michaelson
2007
Snow Cake
Alex Hughes
2006
Muse of Fire
Self
2013
The Song of Lunch
He
2010
Close My Eyes
Sinclair
1991
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
Self - M
2003
Bob Roberts
Lukas Hart III
1992
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Other Voices (voice)
2004
We Know Where You Live. Live!
Self
2001
Blow Dry
Phil Allen
2001
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Self
2004
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
Self
2010
Truly Madly Deeply
Jamie
1991
Romeo and Juliet
Tybalt
1978
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Self
2014
Judge Not: In Defense of Dogma
Self
2002
Lumière & Company
(segment "John Boorman")
1995
Closet Land
Interrogator
1991
Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie
Self
1991
The Spirit of Man
Israel Yates
1989
Rasputin
Grigori Rasputin
1996
Here We Are Kings: The Making of 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'
Self (archive footage)
2022Benefactors
1989
Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast
1992
Portraits in Dramatic Time
2011
Dark Harbor
David Weinberg
1999
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Captain George Fallon
2000
Dust
Todd
2013
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
Self
2012
7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting
Narrator (voice)
19897 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting
Writer
1989
National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
In Memory Of
2016
Play
Man
2001Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton + Carter + Depp = Todd
Self
2008
The Wildest Dream
Noel Odell (voice)
2010
Mesmer
Franz Anton Mesmer
1994
The Boy in the Bubble
The Storyteller (voice)
2011
Wetherby
TV Commentator (archival footage)
1985
Pity in History
Croop
1985
The Search for John Gissing
John Gissing
2001
Babitsky's War
Narrator
2000
BAM150
Self
2012
Revolutionary Witness
Jacques Roux
1989
Busted
Simon
1983
Sonnet Number 12
(voice)
2009