[Closed] Alan Rickman! No no no, not another sad loss

Galaxy Quest - I'd forgotten that. Terrible idea for a film done brilliantly!

Awe Maaaaannn.

One of my favourite actors of all time.

Very sad loss.

Fantastic in 'Dogma'.

Damn shame... loved his Frankie Howerd impression in Dogma

Wonderful actor who really understood his craft and off course that extra-ordinary voice. RIP and thank you for all the joy you've given us.

As an aside, I met him once very briefly in a London restaurant at the coat check. Said hello and just his one word reply of hello back sent shivers down my spine. He was quite "luvy" and I was totally star struck and remember it clearly to this day.

Nobody could do camp & vicious like him....

He was BLOODY brilliant..

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Bloody shame! 🙁
Superb actor, he could commit Grand Larceny of pretty much any film with just a word and that look.
I remember [i]January Man[/i], just checked IMDB, and that was only his second film after Die Hard, he's made 70 films altogether.
Lemmy, DB and now Alan Rickman, it's not been a great start to the year.

Really sad news, loved him in 'Truly, Madly, Deeply'

I only ever watched that Prince of Thieves for that fantastic role that Alan Rickman brought. Always felt that he was quite under used thereafter.
Great actor RIP

I can only imagine his dying moments.

It's been said before, but his turn as the Frankie Howerd inspired Metatron in Dogma was fantastic and makes me laugh every time

😥

He was mesmerizing in the "Les Liasions Dangereuses"

I'd like to think that right now he's "sitting on a beach, earning 20%".

RIP Alan Rickman

When your age reach a "9" majority will encounter some problems ... same may be the beginning of a very serious problem.

Age with a "9" digit is not good.

Observe ...

The Motorhead bloke died at 70 but I think he did not manage to get through 69.

“Here’s to the best damned antagonist a guy could ask for.”

I'd like to think that right now he's "sitting on a beach, earning 20%".

Nah he's still driving about with the fit singer out of Texas:

a sad loss to humanity, a superb actor and a warm ,humble human being who never forgot or betrayed his roots .....truly madly deeply is some tour de force--if you remain unmoved then your not human !

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ALAN RICKMAN (1946-2016)

There is so much that is matchless to remember about Alan Rickman. His career was at the highest level, as actor on stage and screen and as director ditto. His last bequest of his film “A Little Chaos” and his indelible performance as Louis 14th, should now reach the wider audience they deserve.

Beyond a career which the world is indebted to, he was a constant agent for helping others. Whether to institutions like RADA or to individuals and certainly to me, his advice was always spot-on. He put liberal philanthropy at the heart of his life. He and Rima Horton (50 years together) were always top of my dream-list dinner guests. Alan would by turns be hilarious and indignant and gossipy and generous. All this delivered sotto, in that convoluted voice, as distinctive as Edith Evans, John Gielgud, Paul Scofield, Alec Guinness, Alastair Sim or Bowie, company beyond compare.

When he played Rasputin, I was the Tzar Nicholas. Filming had started before I arrived in St Petersburg. Precisely as I walked into the hotel-room, the phone rang. Alan, to say welcome, hope the flight was tolerable and would I like to join him and Greta Scacchi and others in the restaurant in 30 minutes? Alan, the concerned leading man. On that film, he discovered that the local Russian crew was getting an even worse lunch than the rest of us. So he successfully protested. On my first day before the camera, he didn’t like the patronising, bullying tone of a note which the director gave me. Alan, seeing I was a little crestfallen, delivered a quiet, concise resumé of my career and loudly demanded that the director up his game.

Behind his starry insouciance and careless elegance, behind that mournful face, which was just as beautiful when wracked with mirth, there was a super-active spirit, questing and achieving, a super-hero, unassuming but deadly effective.

I so wish he’d played King Lear and a few other classical challenges but that’s to be greedy. He leaves a multitude of fans and friends, grateful and bereft.

-- Ian McKellen, London, 14 January 2016

On winning the BAFTA for his turn in Robin Hood he remarked that "subtlety was obviously overrated"