Alan Rickman as Alexander Dane in “Galaxy Quest” & as Severus Snape in “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”

Alan Rickman as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (BBC TV Shakespeare, 1978)

Die Hard (1998)

Alan Rickman, Die Hard (1988)

_{“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.” — Ian McKellen on Alan Rickman [x]}

_{“Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.”
                     -Alan Rickman}