Allan RickmanJanuary 14, 2016 marked the passing of Alan Rickman.  Rickman was best known in recent years as  Severus Snape in the Harry Potter Movies.  One of his earliest roles to command attention was that of the villain Hans Gruber in the first Die Hard. You might also remember him as Alexander Dane in Galaxy Quest, the classically trained actor resigned to be forever remembered for playing an alien in a television series.     Like his Galaxy Quest character Alan Rickman was a classically trained actor who was equally at home on stage as he was on screen, though he preferred the stage and often passed up choice movie roles to appear on stage.  

The link below will provide a list of films and other materials featuring Alan Rickman.

 

Alan Rickman