Alan Rickman

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Alan Rickman (2011)

Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (born February 21, 1946 in London ; † January 14, 2016 there ) was a British theater and film actor and director , especially for the theater.

Life

Alan Rickman was born the second of four children to his Catholic father Bernard Rickman and his Methodist mother Margaret Doreen Rose (née Bartlett). The Irish-Welsh family lived in Hammersmith, London . When Alan was eight years old, his father, a factory worker, died of lung cancer . From then on, he and his siblings only grew up with his mother († 1997).

As a child, Rickman discovered his talent for calligraphy and watercolor painting and received a scholarship to the Latymer Upper private school . After finishing school, he trained as a graphic designer at the Chelsea College of Art and Design . He then founded his own company Graphiti with friends in Soho and worked there for a few years before he received a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) at the age of 26 . While he attended the renowned drama school from 1972 to 1974, he mainly dealt with Shakespeare's dramas, won the Emile Litter Prize, the Forbes Robertson Prize and the Bancroft Gold Medal. He also worked as a costume designer for Nigel Hawthorne and Ralph Richardson .

Rickman had been in a relationship with the politician and professor Rima Horton since 1965, whom he married in 2012. He died on January 14, 2016 from a pancreatic tumor at the age of 69.

Career

Beginnings as a theater actor

Alan Rickman has worked with various experimental British theater groups such as Chekhov's Die Möwe and Snoo Wilson's The Grass Widow at the Royal Court Theater in London. He appeared three times at the Edinburgh International Festival . Occasionally he made television appearances. In 1980 he played the role of Mr. Slope in the multi-part BBC film adaptation of Anthony Trollopes Barchester Towers: The Barchester Chronicles . Rickman has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company in a number of plays, including As You Like It and Dangerous Liaisons . The production of Dangerous Liaisons was also in 1987 at Broadway listed, and Rickman was honored for his role as the Vicomte de Valmont for the Tony Award nominated. During this time in New York, Joel Silver offered him the role of Hans Gruber in Die Hard , which started his international film career in 1988. From then on, Rickman was active both on the stage (there as a director) as well as for television and cinema.

In 2005 he took over the direction of the Royal Court Theater in the play My Name Is Rachel Corrie , for which he won the Theatregoers' Choice Award for best director. He himself had written the piece with Katharine Viner . Since September 2008 he has directed the one-act Creditors (Creditors) by August Strindberg in the Donmar Warehouse theater in London .

Film career

Alan Rickman (2007)

While he embodied rather gentle characters in British films such as Sense and Sensuality or Wie crazy and from the bottom of his heart , he often played the role of the villain in Hollywood productions, such as Hans Gruber in Die Hard or the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood - King of Thieves . He was able to prove that he also had comedic talent in the films Galaxy Quest - Planlos durch Space and Dogma . In the case of the Robin Hood filming, however, most of the scenes with him fell victim to the film editing. In 1995, Alan Rickman operated as a director in the play The Winter Guest by Sharman Macdonald , which at London's Almeida Theater was performed. He also directed the 1996 film adaptation of the play with Emma Thompson and her mother Phyllida Law in the lead roles. In 1996 he won the Golden Globe as a performer in the HBO film Rasputin .

From 2001 Rickman took over the portrayal of Severus Snape in the film adaptations of the Harry Potter novels. He was the cast of choice for the author Joanne K. Rowling , with whom Rickman talked extensively about his character. It was important to him to get a background about the development of his role, otherwise he would not have been able to play the character credibly.

In 2003 he played in the romantic comedy Actually… Liebe Harry in the episode "Harry, Karen ( Emma Thompson ) and Mia ( Heike Makatsch )".

In the adaptation of the novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in 2005, he lent his voice to the robot Marvin in the original version. In 2005 he was part of the cast of Tom Tykwer's large-scale production Das Parfum - The Story of a Murderer , the film adaptation of the bestseller of the same name by Patrick Süskind . In the same year he made the film The Taste of Snow with Sigourney Weaver . The main role for it was written for him by the author Angela Pell. In 2007 he played judge Turpin in the film adaptation of the musical Sweeney Todd - The Devilish Barber from Fleet Street with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter , with whom he worked several times. He also played Nobel Prize winner Eli Michaelson in the drama Nobel Son . In 2008 he took on the role of Steven Spurrier in Bottle Shock, filming the events surrounding the Paris Wine Jury .

In 2014 he directed his second feature film, The Gardener of Versailles (A Little Chaos) . In the main roles are u. a. to see himself and Kate Winslet .

Alan Rickman (2011)

The film Alice in Wonderland: Behind the Looking Glass was released posthumously , in which he again spoke the Caterpillar Absolem .

Other projects

Alan Rickman was immortalized in a song composed by the English musician Adam Leonard . Furthermore, his voice can be heard on Mike Oldfield's music album Tubular Bells II , which was released in 1992. In the piece of music The Bell , Rickman lists the individual instruments here. In 2000, Alan Rickman starred in the Texas group's music video In Demand . In it, he drives through the night with front woman Sharleen Spiteri in a Bentley Azure convertible and then dances a tango with her at a gas station .

German voice actors

The actor with the distinctive voice was dubbed by many different speakers in German-speaking countries . Rickman was, among others, by Michael Telloke (as Lukas Hart III. In Bob Roberts , as Metatron in Dogma and as Alex Hughes in The Taste of Snow ), by Peter Fricke (as Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood - King of Thieves and as Grigori Rasputin in Rasputin ) and spoken by Lutz Mackensy (as Jack / Hans Gruber in Die Hard and as PL O'Hara in A Factual Romance ). In the first two of the Harry Potter films , Rickman (as Severus Snape ) received the German voice of Erich Hallhuber . After his death in 2003, Bernd Rumpf played the role after he had synchronized Rickman in 1995 in terms of meaning and sensuality . Rumpf was then engaged more often for the dubbing Rickman, so also in Sweeney Todd - The devilish barber from Fleet Street and in Perfume - The story of a murderer .

Filmography

As an actor

As a voice actor

Awards

Alan Rickman has received numerous awards and nominations for his stage and film performances , including the 1991 BAFTA Award for Robin Hood , an award for best actor at the Montreal Film Festival in 1994 for Mesmer and in 1996 the Emmy , a Golden Globe and the SAG Award for Rasputin .

Rickman also received the Theatregoers' Choice Award for Best Director for the play My Name Is Rachel Corrie in January 2006 . The same play was also awarded for Best New Play .

Web links

Commons : Alan Rickman  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Catherine Shoard: Alan Rickman, giant of British film and theater, this at 69. In: The Guardian . January 14, 2016, accessed January 14, 2016 .
  2. ^ Movies.yahoo.com, Alan Rickman Biography .
  3. ↑ Melody Chiu: Alan Rickman and Longtime Love Rima Horton Secretly Wed 3 Years Ago. In: People.com . April 23, 2015, accessed January 14, 2016 .
  4. ^ Caroline Frost: Alan Rickman 'Battled Pancreatic Cancer In Private'. In: huffingtonpost.co.uk. January 15, 2016, accessed January 15, 2016 .
  5. ^ Professor Snape actor Alan Rickman is dead. In: Süddeutsche.de . January 14, 2016, accessed January 14, 2016 .
  6. ^ Guardian.co.uk, Alan Rickman to direct in West End , April 30, 2008
  7. ↑ Theater Record, The Theatregoers' Choice Awards 2005 (accessed August 8, 2012)
personal data
SURNAME Rickman, Alan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rickman, Alan Sidney Patrick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British theater and film actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 2016
Place of death London