Alan Rickman has died!

I've just remembered my favourite Alan Rickman film. An Awfully Big Adventure, based on the book by Beryl Bainbridge. A little known film but worth searching out. As always Alan Rickman was wonderful in it, very sad ending though.

Just logged on. Really shocked and saddened.

DH was at school with him, a couple of years below, and always said he based some of his characters on the masters. He will be remembered as a great British actor.



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Loved his films, very sad he will be missed as a fine actor

A great actor and a great loss. Loved many of his films, thought he and Emma Thompson salvaged Love Actually from being completely turgid. We have lost two exceptional performers this week.

I've loved him in his many roles. He had a wonderfully expressive face and a voice that could send shivers up my spine. In a good way. What a very sad loss to the screen and the stage.

I'm very sad, too, as are my girls. I met Alan Rickman at the premiere of The Winter Guest and I was so overcome, I couldn't speak, he was so gorgeous! He'll be greatly missed.

What a shock. I loved his voice, he was one of my favourites , he'll be sadly missed.

Lovely, lovely man. Couldn't believe it when DS told me.

He was an excellent actor. I absolutely loved him in Robin Hood. He really made that film. "And call off Christmas!" Might try find it on netflix actually and watch it again. What a horrible start to January. Upwards from here please 2016!

I feel sad that he has died , sad we will not see him again except for repeats of his films

Great actor excellent in all sorts of roles on stage and screen. He seemed to age so well. A sad loss.

So very sad, I adored Alan.Rickman, loved his dry humour, in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves and in The Harry Potter films.

Saw him with Lindsay Duncan in the RSC's Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Not a dry seat in the house;) !!

Like NanKate I am also 69. I was shocked when a friend in her mid 40's commented that Rickman & Bowie had had a 'good innings' when I feel that they have been taken whilst still in their prime.

Wonderful actor- his Obidiah Slope with Geraldine McKewan as Mrs Proudie in Barchester Chronicles was just a classic- I have the box set & will be watching it next week. I always imagine him in the part when I read the books.
Who else could have played Severus Snape too? He was perfect for the part.
Sadly missed.

I've been a huge fan for years - I was wondering if he was ill as had heard nothing of what he was doing recently - absolutely gutted.

How can I watch Truly,Madly,Deeply DVD now

I too saw him onstage as Vicomte de Valmont, wonderful, but loved all his roles. There aren't too many like him, maybe none.

I loved him in Truly , Madly , Deeply too , he was just yummy, especially when they sang The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore .
And in Snowcake with Sigourney Weaver .

A great actor and, by the accounts of those who worked with him, a lovely person too. Very sad.

He met Rima when he was 19, she 18, that's fifty years , they married three years ago , possibly illness started around that time, or they just took a long time to get around to it, poor woman , but I do know - from people who know her - she is a strong person with a good circle of friends and her passion is her politics

Agree with all comments on here. I loved him in Robin Prince of Theives and the Harry Potter films. So dark and brooding. Great actor R.I.P. Alan xxxx

So jealous of SueDonim for actually meeting him. Think I'd have been speechless too.
Apparently there are still a couple of his films to be released later this year so we can look forward to those. He was still working until recently just like Bowie.
I'm hoping the BBC might do a season of his films so I can catch up with any I've missed.
Saw something on Facebook from the young male fans suggesting they all watch Die Hard last night as a mark of respect. Everybody loved Alan Rickman!

Loved his velvet voice him in Robin Hood

I was at the Almeida theatre some years ago, sitting in the stalls waiting for the show to start. Then I heard that unforgettable voice and looked behind – there he was! Wow!! He should have lived hereafter, 69 is too young. But at least we have all those films and recordings.