Alan Rickman RIP

[subcontrabass]

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/14/alan-rickman-giant-of-british-film-and-theatre-dies-at-69

[jean]

I remember him as a wonderful stage actor. With Lindsay Duncan in Les Liasions Dangereuses just one memorable appearance - neither of them well enough known in those days to be cast in the film.

[DracoM]

Yes, he will be much missed. Very under-rated as actor - gripping onstage and with a wonderful sense of comic timing.

[gurnemanz]

I remember him as a wonderful stage actor. With Lindsay Duncan in Les Liasions Dangereuses just one memorable appearance - neither of them well enough known in those days to be cast in the film.

We only saw him on stage once and it was a very memorable as Jacques in As You Like It with RSC at Stratford in the 80s - with Juliet Stevenson as Rosalind.

A top favourite TV role must be the odious curate, Obadiah Slope, in the Barchester Chronicles.

Just heard Michael Gambon on the radio - so moved and shocked he couldn't keep the interview going.

[mangerton]

I first saw him as the Reverend Obadiah Slope. A brilliant performance, amongst a stellar cast.

[Serial_Apologist]

Another of nature's true gentlemen gone.

R.I.P Alan Rickman.

[Tevot]

I first saw him as the Reverend Obadiah Slope. A brilliant performance, amongst a stellar cast.

My experience too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzk1wx5rlK0

[Richard Tarleton]

What a great actor, how sad - unforgettable voice. Screen only in my case - I first spotted him in "Truly Madly Thespily" (as Private Eye wickedly dubbed it), and of course as Slope, above. A magnetic, screen-filling presence as his Hollywood blockbuster villains (Gruber, Sheriff of Nottingham), and an hilarious turn in the brilliant sci-fi spoof Galaxy Quest (with Sigourney Weaver, Tim Allen et al) - not to be missed if you spot it in Radio Times.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

[Nick Armstrong]

I first saw him as the Reverend Obadiah Slope. A brilliant performance, amongst a stellar cast.

Yes me too... And of course big with the younger generation as Prof. Severus Snape.

I have a great fondness for the distinctly peevish angel Metatron he played in Kevin Smith's Dogma...



RIP - another great gone aged 69

[Anna]

....a hilarious turn in the brilliant sci-fi spoof Galaxy Quest (with Sigourney Weaver, Tim Allen et al) - not to be missed if you spot it in Radio Times.

I'm glad someone else mentioned Galaxy Quest - it was on again just before Christmas!
Such sad news, what a wonderful voice and presence he had.

[Stillhomewardbound]

I recently re-watched 'The Barchester Chronicles' and it is simply perfect. If he'd never played another role after Slope he would still be remembered for that.

Wasn't he also the Sheriff of Nottingham opposite Kevin Costner's Robin Hood with the best give of a line any villainous actor could hope to get ... ' and CANCEL Christmas!!!!' ?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility - perhaps he was just a bit too old for the part even then, but he portrayed it with great sensitivity. And could anyone have been a better Severus Snape?

[Bryn]

Also very much in his Element in the Fifth such. What a loss!

[Tapiola]

My youngsters were very sad today (as I was) to hear of his passing. "Snape's dead!" I agree with EA that no one could have played the part better. In my own vho, easily the most compelling character in the Harry Potter films. An enormous screen presence in everything I saw him in, from Robin Hood to Truly, Madly Deeply.