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RIP Alan Rickman, AKA Hans Gruber, Severus Snape (variety.com)

Posted by timothy on from the who-gets-all-those-bearer-bonds? dept.

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.

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  1. By Grabthar's Hamme... by mrzaph0d · · Score: 5, Insightful

    By Grabthar's Hammer, by the suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged

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    1. Re:By Grabthar's Hamme... by srmalloy · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ten points to Slytherin.

  2. By Grabthar's Hammer... by vanyel · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...Galaxy Quest ought to rate higher than Die Hard here...

  3. Re:Dweeb Culture is not Nerd Culture. by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 5, Funny

    You made this all up. What a dweeb!

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  4. Met him in NYC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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!