RIP Alan Rickman

[Steak Snabler]

Alan Rickman Dies At 69 In London

Cancer. Same age as Bowie, too.

 

[Elliotte Friedman]

Die Hard & Bob Roberts. Just a fantastic villain.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Die Hard & Bob Roberts. Just a fantastic villain.

He was also awesome as Sheriff Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

"Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans. No more merciful beheadings. And call off Christmas!"

RIP

 

[Steak Snabler]

Also great as the sad sack, midlife crisis guy in "Love Actually."

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

R.I.P. Hans.
Great actor.

 

[TyWebb]

Locksley! I'll cut your heart out with a spoon!
....

Why a spoon, cousin? Why not an axe?

Because it's dull, you twit. It'll hurt more.

RIP

 

[HC]

Some of my favourite Rickman roles were non-villains: "Truly, Madly, Deeply" is wonderful - he and Juliet Stevenson have lovely chemistry. And as Colonel Brandon in "Sense and Sensibility" he defined decency and honour.

 

[Spartan Squad]

He did so much and always brought that dry British wit with him. Obviously the big ones have been mentioned, but he was also great in Dogma and Galaxy quest. And for my generation, Snape. RIP

 

[LongTimeListener]

Also great as the sad sack, midlife crisis guy in "Love Actually."

Speaking of which ... I was pretty peeved this holiday season that all of my movie channels (and I get all of them except TMC) ... did not air that movie either on air or on demand. It was on some regular cable thing so obviously edited and with commercials etc. Trying to monetize it through DVD and paid on-demand, I guess.

Anyway, RIP. He was always enjoyable. Die Hard was on as part of my subscription, and my teenage son and I watched again in what has become a Christmas Eve tradition.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

And Quigley Down Under. That, RHPOT and Die Hard are my favorite Rickman roles.

 

[Riptide]

Rickman and Jeremy Irons were wonderful villains in the Die Hard series. Great casting.

 

[hondo]

Yippi-Ki-Yay mother -------er

 

[Armchair_QB]

I hope he's somewhere lying on a beach earning 20 percent.

 

[MisterCreosote]

 

[TyWebb]

I'm not sure how many people know this, but his role in Die Hard was his first in a movie. He had only done some TV stuff beforehand. Talk about setting a tone. Hans Gruber was an amazing bad guy.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Like a lot of notable British film actors of the last 50 years, he made his bones in the Royal Shakespeare Company.

 

[TowelWaver]

 

[Riptide]

Wiki notes:

His role as Hans Gruber in Die Hard earned him a spot on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains list as the 46th best villain in film history, though he revealed he almost did not take the role as he did not think Die Hard was the kind of film he wanted to make. ... Two researchers, a linguist and a sound engineer, found "the perfect [male] voice" to be a combination of Rickman's and Jeremy Irons's voices based on a sample of 50 voices.