Posted on 01/14/2016 4:51:34 AM PST by Abathar
Actor Alan Rickman, known for films including Harry Potter, Die Hard, Truly Madly Deeply and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, has died at the age of 69.
The star was suffering from cancer, his family said. His agent confirmed the news to BBC News.
He was known by film fans for roles including Professor Snape in the Harry Potter films, Hans Gruber in Die Hard and the Sheriff of Nottingham in 1991's Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
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Yippie ky yay Hans.
I loved him in that role. He absolutely made the movie.
RIP
I forgot about Sense and Sensibility. I went through a phase of being nuts for that movie, watching it over and over. He was excellent in it.
oh no - Florence King died? I hadn’t heard that. Yep - 3 favorites for me too. Rickman was great in Bottle Shock.
LOL!
Just great. Thanks.
Sense and Sensibility — yet to see that myself. Maybe one day.
Great as Nottingham. What a fun villain!
And of course, Snape is larger than life.
Noooooooo! Always a very satisfactory bad guy. Loved his voice.
“Keith Richards outlives another.”
I was shocked when I saw the news. I am a voice person & I found his swoon inducing. He was so wonderful in Sense & Sensibility. He & Emma Thompson were in many things together. A sad loss.
For ONCE in my life I’ll do SOMEthing RIGHT !!!
He was great in “Bottle Shock”...his looking down his nose attitude at the fledgling California wine industry while being forced to drive a rental yellow AMC Gremlin - LOL.
RIP Alan Rickman
Ping to you because of your posts on this thread (see below for link) about Snape and Rickman. I remembered someone on a thread was a Rickman fan, but just couldn’t recall the FR name. Did a Google search and found it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2985336/posts
Thought I recognized that name when I saw this.
It’s sad ... perhaps to us Xers who don’t remember what/how our parents felt when it was Bogey and Bacall.
Nobody’s getting younger in this world, even us. Soon, we’ll be reading about Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, and many others who it will seem like, “weren’t they just young?”
As we forget that yes, they were just young in that movie we watched the other night ... that was filmed in 1973.
And the world still turns.
I second The Barchester Chronicles. He and the whole cast were great. Alan was also the main bad guy in the “Sweeney Todd” movie.
RIP.
“Yipppeeee Kay-Yay M..........”
RIP
I remember him most as the "alien" in Galaxy Quest.
This movie never seems to be mentioned in all the news stories I read; one of the better modern westerns IMHO.
Mr. 1000, later renamed CBGB (or something), an indy film.
*sigh*
Yes, but I’m not seeing as many greats stepping up to replace what we’re losing now.
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