Alan Rickman Facts
Alan Rickman Facts
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Alan Rickman's father died of lung cancer when Alan was only 8 years old. |
Alan Rickman was an honorary president of the International Performers' Aid Trust. He was also involved in Saving Faces, a charity. |
Alan Rickman had said that the film that made him wish to pursue acting as a career was Nashville. |
The first movie that Alan Rickman watched was Swiss Family Robinson. |
Alan Rickman had to take cello lessons to play in the 1990 movie Truly Madly Deeply. |
Alan Rickman was in a relationship with his sweetheart from high school named Rima Horton for 47 years before they got married in 2012. |
Alan Rickman did not have any children due to his wife's wishes. |
In 1995 Empire Magazine named Alan Rickman as number thirty four on the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history. |
Alan Rickman was named 46 on the 100 Best Heroes/Villains in film history by the American Film Institute for his role as Hans Gruber in the movie Die Hard. |
Alan Rickman played Rasputin in a TV movie titled Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny. He won a Screen Actors Guild Award, an Emmy, and a Golden Globe for that role. |
Alan Rickman won a BAFTA Award for his acting in Robin Hood. |
During the filming of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Alan Rickman used a fart machine to make people laugh during dramatic scenes. |
Alan Rickman once failed his driving test in California. He was told he drove too cautiously through a green light. |
Alan Rickman thought of Canada as a second home and was friends with the former governor general Adrienne Clarkson. |
The writer of Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, couldn't keep secrets from Alan Rickman, so he knew his character's fate before Deathly Hollows was released. |
Alan Rickman was given the role of Snape in the Harry Potter films only after Tim Roth turned the role down for a role in Planet of the Apes. J.K. Rowling has said that she thought of Alan Rickman while writing the character and he was her first choice. |
Alan Rickman's first love was theater and he often turned down roles in films in favor of roles on stage. |
Alan Rickman died of pancreatic cancer on January 14th, 2016, in London, England. He was 69 years old. |
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