RIP Alan Rickman: His Greatest Ever Roles
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Alan Rickman, who has died at the age of 69 following a private battle with cancer, was a mesmerising screen presence, whether playing the villain, the hero, or simply rock-solid support. While his death is an unexpected blow for British drama, we can at least look back at some of his most memorable appearances on screen…
Hans Gruber - ‘Die Hard’ (1988)
Strangely, it was his role in John McTiernan’s action classic ‘Die Hard’ that proved Rickman’s big-screen break.
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A classical theatre actor up to that point – he’d just dazzled critics as Vicomte de Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses both for the RSC and on Broadway,
where he was nominated for a Tony – he showed that he was no ...