Great actor and so versatile. He played such a suave villain. I really like him in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, It was just a voice over, but he's the first one I think of when I think of that movie.
I am looking forward to the new Alice move coming out this year as well.
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[Alan Rickman arrives at the gates of heaven]
"What's your name pal?"
[Alan Rickman looks at directory]
"Uh, Clay. Bill ... Clay."
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One of the more underrated actors of our lifetime... never gave a bad performance.
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Phenomenal actor, I can't think of a role that I didn't like him in.
He nearly saved the putrid Keven Costner Robin Hood on his own.
He was just one of those actors that chewed up the scenery everywhere he went. He always seemed to relish playing the broken bad guy, he even led us to believe that in Harry Potter until he had what I thought was an amazing death scene with the memory of him begging not to let Harry die.
Really big loss to the movie world in my opinion.
and I loved him in Galaxy Quest, he was the most fun part of that movie.
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Die Hard? Harry Potter?? Forget those...what about the Kevin Smith classic Dogma!!!
I remember Kevin Smith praising him pretty heavily after working with him. He felt that Rickman gave him (Smith) way more credit than he deserved by agreeing to be in the film. Smith basically couldn't believe they got him and felt he elevated everyone onset.
Here is what Daniel Radcliffe said today:
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“Alan Rickman is undoubtedly one of the greatest actors I will ever work with,” Radcliffe wrote Thursday on his Google Plus page. “He is also one of the [most loyal] and most supportive people I’ve ever met in the film industry. He was so encouraging of me both on set and in the years post-Potter. I’m pretty sure he came and saw everything I ever did on stage both in London and New York. He didn’t have to do that. I know other people who’ve been friends with him for much much longer than I have and they all say ‘if you call Alan, it doesn’t matter where in the world he is or how busy he is with what he’s doing, he’ll get back to you within a day.’”
Radcliffe continued, “People create perceptions of actors based on the parts they played so it might surprise some people to learn that contrary to some of the sterner (or downright scary) characters he played, Alan was extremely kind, generous, self-deprecating and funny. And certain things obviously became even funnier when delivered in his unmistakable double-bass.”
As a young actor on the Harry Potter set, Radcliffe added that Rickman was one of the first adults to treat him “like a peer rather than a child.”
“Working with him at such a formative age was incredibly important and I will carry the lessons he taught me for the rest of my life and career,” he wrote. “Film sets and theatre stages are all far poorer for the loss of this great actor and man.”
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Aw man this is sad news me and my wife are doind our annual harry potter marathon snape was my favorite character and rickman was such a great actor R.I.P
Alan Rickman is on my list of underrated actors that I could watch in anything and would pay to watch them read the phone book.
His performance in Dogma was great, and as amazingly cute/hot as Zooey Deschanel was in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, it was Rickman's performance that made that movie almost barely passable.
As Snape he made you feel for the bad guy, who in the end was actually one of the good guys. Which made you feel for him that much more.
I'm sad. This affects me more than Bowie did (no disrespect to David Bowie) but Rickman was one of my favs.
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First saw him in Truely Madly Deeply which can be seen on you tube, brilliant movie.
I'm selfish, my first thought was how good he would have been as he got older and so what a loss as, say a Lear this is.
Alan Rickman of Die Hard & Harry Potter fame Passes at 69
From the New Yorker:
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