R.i.p Alan Rickman

[webbo3]

Just on the news he passed away aged 69, I think I first saw him in Die Hard and thought he was a German actor.





Dave.

[retrocop]

No small Filmography. Impressive
Filmography


Year

Title

Role

Notes


1978 Romeo and Juliet Tybalt BBC Television Shakespeare
1980 Thérèse Raquin Vidal BBC miniseries
1980 Shelley Clive Episode No. 1.7
1982 Busted Simon BBC TV film
1982 Smiley's People Mr. Brownlow Episode No. 1.2
1982 The Barchester Chronicles The Rev. Obadiah Slope BBC miniseries
1985 Return of the Native Narrator
1985 Summer Season Croop BBC TV series
1985 Girls on Top Dimitri / Voice of RADA CIT TV series
1988 Die Hard Hans Gruber
1989 Revolutionary Witness Jacques Roux BBC TV short
1989 The January Man Ed, the painter
1989 Screenplay Israel Yates BBC TV series
1990 Quigley Down Under Elliot Marston
1991 Truly, Madly, Deeply Jamie
1991 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves Sheriff of Nottingham
1991 Close My Eyes Sinclair Bryant
1991 Closet Land The Interrogator
1992 Bob Roberts Lukas Hart III
1993 Fallen Angels Dwight Billings TV series
1994 Mesmer Franz Anton Mesmer
1994 Sense and Sensibility Colonel Brandon
1995 Die Hard with a Vengeance Hans Gruber Flashback
1995 An Awfully Big Adventure P.L. O'Hara
1995 Sense and Sensibility Colonel Brandon
1996 Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny Grigori Rasputin
1996 Michael Collins Éamon de Valera
1996 Castle Ghosts of Ireland Tyde Documentary
1997 The Winter Guest Man in street (uncredited) Also director and co-writer
1998 Judas Kiss Detective David Friedman
1998 Dark Harbor David Weinberg
1999 Dogma The Metatron
1999 Galaxy Quest Alexander Dane/Dr. Lazarus
2000 Help! I'm a Fish Joe (voice)
2001 Play Man
2001 Blow Dry Phil Allen
2001 Land of the Mammoth Cro Magnon hunter Documentary
2001 The Search for John Gissing John Gissing
2001 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Severus Snape Released in the U.S. and South Asia under the title Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
2002 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Severus Snape
2002 King of the Hill King Philip (voice)
2003 Love Actually Harry
2004 Something the Lord Made Dr. Alfred Blalock
2004 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Severus Snape
2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Severus Snape
2005 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Marvin the Paranoid Android (voice)
2006 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Antoine Richis
2006 Snow Cake Alex Hughes
2007 Nobel Son Eli Michaelson
2007 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Severus Snape
2007 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Judge Turpin
2008 Bottle Shock Steven Spurrier
2009 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Severus Snape
2010 Alice in Wonderland Absolem the Caterpillar (voice)
2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 Severus Snape
2010 The Wildest Dream Noel Odell (voice) National Geographic documentary
2010 The Song of Lunch He BBC Drama Production[61]
2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 Severus Snape
2011 The Boy in the Bubble Narrator Animated short film
2011 Back at the Barnyard General Alien Episode: "Aliens"
2012 Gambit Lord Shahbandar
2013 The Butler Ronald Reagan
2013 A Promise Karl Hoffmeister
2013 CBGB Hilly Kristal
2013 Dust Todd
2015 A Little Chaos King Louis XIV Also director
2015 Eye in the Sky Lieutenant General Frank Benson Post-production
2015 The Parallel TBA Announced
2016 Alice Through the Looking Glass Absolem the Caterpillar (voice) Post-production

[New Judge]

"Keef is still going."

I forgot to comment. Keef Richards is actually dead. He died in about 1978 (nobody knows for sure exactly when). The Keef you see on TV is indeeed his body but has been preserved by massive daily injections of formaldehyde and embalming fluid. Movements are carried out by sophisticated robotics and his voice is synthesised by a similar device to that used by Professor Stephen Hawking.

Close observers will have noted a marked deterioration in Keef's appearance in recent years. Despite increasing the daily doses of the vital fluids time has now taken its toll.

[jno]

New Judge, watch Sense and Sensibility or Truly Madly Deeply if you have the chance. You could also try Prince of Thieves, though the bits without Rickman are fairly dire. He was a proper English actor, with a superb voice.

[Lie-in King]

A marvellous actor, a sad loss indeed.

RIP Alan.

[netibiza]

RIP Alan, I loved him.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/14/alan-rickman-giant-of-british-film-and-theatre-dies-at-69

Must admit I did not recognise who he was until I saw his photograph. R.I.P. though.

[melv16]

In Prince of Thieves, how did Robin Hood manage to land in Dover, visit aysgarth falls and end up at Hadrian's wall in the same day? AR was very good in that film. RIP.

[Barsel]

Another shocker. R.I.P Alan Rickman.

[Bathsheba]

@ Islay...me too x

[New Judge]

“New Judge...as soon as you see a photo of him you will know him.”

Well I’ve just looked him up, Bathsheba, and I can confirm that not only have I never heard of him but I could not identify him either. I’ve neither heard nor ever seen him.

Thanks for the Filmography, retro. This confirms my point above. Of the productions you listed I have only ever heard of the following:

1982 Smiley's People Mr. Brownlow Episode No. 1.2

(only because I watched one episode of “Tinker Tailor, Soldier, Spy before abandoning it)

1994 Sense and Sensibility Colonel Brandon
1995 Sense and Sensibility Colonel Brandon

(only because I know who wrote the book)

1996 Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny Grigori Rasputin

(only because I know of the Mad Monk and I like the song by Boney M)

2005 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Marvin the Paranoid Android (voic)e)

(because I’ve read the book and saw the 1980s TV series)

And all the “Harry Potter” stuff (because I’ve got shares in Bloomsbury publishing)

I've never seen any of these productions and most of the stuff listed I couldn't say whether it was a film, a book or a recipe.

It seems from what's been said he must have done some stuff that people liked, though.

[maggiebee]

Loved him in Sense and Sensibility and Love Actually to name but two. RIP Alan you will be sadly missed by many.

[Bathsheba]

@New Judge,......what about when David Bowie's sad passing was announced?
Did you know him?

[New Judge]

I knew of him (I know of most artists in the music world from that era). I didn't particularly like anything he did (apart, perhaps, the "Ground control to Major Tom" thingy). Never really seemed to know whether he wanted a shave or a haircut (the phrase is not really "shave" but it begins with "sh" and it probably won't pass the censors). Seemed a decent enough cove, though.

But I'm afraid Mr Rickman has genuinely got me stumped.

[Sqad]

I got him mixed up with Rick Wakeman..........the names sound the same.....

[ChillDoubt]

Severus Expirito

RIP

[wired]

With a spoon cousin? What a loss.

[Canary42]

Seems unfair that he didn't have a gong, when the likes of Barbara Windsor got one.

Perhaps he turned one down.

[Sir Alec]

Excellent in two of my favourites, Galaxy Quest and Dogma. Tremendous shock when it was just announced. Brilliant actor! He will be missed hugely.
"See you managed to get your shirt off"...

[retrocop]

NJ
I am surprised you didn't watch Michael Collins.At least it was based on history and not fable and myth. He was good as De Valera.

[Bathsheba]

@ Prudie....I know what you mean by "ugly sexy" but I don't put him in that category, that's for actors like Ken Stott x x