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RIP Alan Rickman, AKA Hans Gruber, Severus Snape (variety.com)
TigerPlish writes to note Variety's report on the death of actor Alan Rickman, who died after a short bout with cancer, and was surrounded by friends and family when he went. Rickman may be most familiar to you as Hans Gruber in Die Hard (especially in his final scene), or as Harry Potter's Snape, but his film career was long, crossing genre lines and extending into five decades.
I don't know about these other movies, I remember his performance the most from Dogma.
Wasn't galaxy quest supposed to be a spoof? Replacing a cast member using the same name but looks different and call him the same is exactly like the series it spoofs.
Also the search for Lazarus has a nice ring to it.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
A friend of mine was with the audio crew for Galaxy Quest and when some of the stars were touring and in NYC he invited me to go with him to see them at a party. Met Rickman (and the others) - nice guy. And he lit up when I mentioned that I'd remembered him from one of the early episodes of Smiley's People (1982).
Said everybody wanted to talk about Galaxy Quest & the Die Hards & Sense and Sensibility &c, but "NObody EVER talks about Smiley's People, and I LOVED doing that episode and working with Sir Alec Guinness (who had then recently passed away)!". I liked him.
_I_ met Snape BEFORE he was Snape!
I agree. To give you some idea of his talent, two of my favorite Alan Rickman movies were Love Actually and Dogma. That an actor could play such different roles in such different movies is testament to his talent. Only a few actors come close to playing such a wide range of characters.