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Alan Rickman, one of the best-loved and most warmly admired British actors of the past 30 years, has died in London aged 69. His death was confirmed on Thursday by his family. Rickman had been suffering from cancer.
A star whose arch features and languid diction were recognisable across the generations, Rickman found a fresh legion of fans with his role as Professor Snape in the Harry Potter films. But the actor had been a big-screen staple since first shooting to global acclaim in 1988, when he starred as Hans Gruber, Bruce Willis’s sardonic, dastardly adversary in Die Hard – a part he was offered two days after arriving in Los Angeles, aged 41.
Gruber was the first of three memorable baddies played by Rickman: he was an outrageous sheriff of Nottingham in 1991’s Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, as well as a terrifying Rasputin in an acclaimed 1995 HBO film.
The Song of Lunch
Lucy Mangan on last night's TV: A dramatised narrative poem might sound a bit dull but this one with Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson was wonderful
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But Rickman was also a singular leading man: in 1991, he starred as a cellist opposite Juliet Stevenson in Anthony Minghella’s affecting supernatural romance Truly, Madly, Deeply; four years later he was the honourable and modest Col Brandon in Sense and Sensibility, starring and scripted by Emma Thompson. He was to reunite with Thompson many times: they played husband and wife in 2003’s Love, Actually and former lovers in 2010 BBC drama The Song of Lunch.
In 1995, he directed Thompson and her mother, Phyllida Law, in his directorial debut, the acclaimed Scottish drama The Winter Guest. Last year, he reunited with Kate Winslet, another Sense and Sensibility co-star, for his second film as director, A Little Chaos – a period romance set in the gardens of Versailles.
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.... 2016 is not really endearing itself currently.
.. Getting really fethed off with cancer too
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The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
Weird thing was that I wondered what he was up to recently due to those Diehard / Nakatomi Tower meme's that popped up over Xmas. A very sad 2016 so far :(. RIP sir!
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Hans Gruber is one of the all-time best movie villains.
Sad news indeed, Alan Rickman was a phenomenal actor.
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bit soon maybe, but benefit of the doubt and all that.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
As others have said, he was good in Robin Hood and Die Hard. He was also good in Michael Collins, a favourite film of mine.
He played a good role in the Barchester chronicles, an old school British TV series from years ago.
Somebody was saying that there is something about the month of January when it comes to people dying - one of the worst months of the year. It's very strange.
He will be missed
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Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote: As others have said, he was good in Robin Hood and Die Hard. He was also good in Michael Collins, a favourite film of mine.
He played a good role in the Barchester chronicles, an old school British TV series from years ago.
I'd add Marvin from the Hitchikers Guide To the Galaxy film to the list of his great performances. Gets the characters perfectly. He was also excellent as Snape; the Harry Potter films aren't going down in history for their great acting on the whole, but Rickman was superb throughout the series.
The third one in like a week time. 2016 has a bad start.
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Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote: As others have said, he was good in Robin Hood and Die Hard. He was also good in Michael Collins, a favourite film of mine.
He played a good role in the Barchester chronicles, an old school British TV series from years ago.
I'd add Marvin from the Hitchikers Guide To the Galaxy film to the list of his great performances. Gets the characters perfectly. He was also excellent as Snape; the Harry Potter films aren't going down in history for their great acting on the whole, but Rickman was superb throughout the series.
Yeah, Rickman and Richard Harris, were the stand-out performances in that series.
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Often when an actor dies, I watch a movie about that actor. And one of the things I have always watched was Die Hard 1 at Christmas time, I consider it a Christmas classic, as Alan Rickman is probably one of the greatest actors of our generation.
For many would assume me joking, but the man was talented, interesting, funny, and intelligent. Men are often quoted for their quotes, Alan Rickman will be immortalized for his roles and movies. His executions, his dialogs. He will be apart of the great actors, John Wayne, Robin Williams, and many others that I could list.
As many would say: We will never see his ilk ever again.
He’s movies will stay with us forever, and but he will have moved on into the sky above.
For a human being… An Actor and Actress is remembered for their deeds. I am sad of his passing this is no doubt but the life he lived is an inspiration to us all.
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Extremely sad news. Loved him in Die Hard and Harry Potter, obviously, but he was also a great actor in other films such as Love Actually, Sweeney Todd, Dogma. Feth man, he was great in a lot of movies.
Crap.
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I remember him first from Barchester Chronicles, he stole the show, by playing an oily backstabber with extra oil. The production which which would otherwise have been an extremely boring series adaptation of life as rural Victorian clergy and in the process made his name.
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It's been quite ..... odd.... seeing how people have reacted or known him.
Chatting to some of the undergrads a wee while back and they knew him from the Harry Potter films, knew he'd been in Die Hard but, apparently, didn't know he'd been in Robin Hood and had never even heard of Truly, Madly Deeply.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
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