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Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (February 21, 1946 – January 14, 2016) was an English actor and director. Known for his deep, languid voice, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), performing in modern and classical theatre productions. He played the Vicomte de Valmont in the RSC stage production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses in 1985, and after the production transferred to the West End in 1986 and Broadway in 1987, he was nominated for a Tony Award. Rickman's first cinema role came when he was cast as the German terrorist leader Hans Gruber in Die Hard (1988). He also appeared as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), for which he received the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role; Elliott Marston in Quigley Down Under (1990); Jamie in Truly, Madly, Deeply (1991); Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility (1995); Eamon DeValera in Michael Collins (1997); Alexander Dane in Galaxy Quest (1999); Metatron in Dogma (1999); Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series (2001–2011); Harry in Love Actually (2003); Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005); and Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007). Rickman made his television acting debut playing Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (1978) as part of the BBC's Shakespeare series. His breakthrough role was in the BBC television adaptation of The Barchester Chronicles (1982). He later starred in television films, playing the title character in Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny (1996), which won him a Golden Globe Award, an Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and Alfred Blalock in Something the Lord Made (2004). Rickman died of pancreatic cancer on 14 January 2016 at age 69. His final film roles were as Lieutenant General Frank Benson in the thriller Eye in the Sky (2015), and reprising his role as the voice of the caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland (2010) in Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016).
Alan Rickman
Victor Wolf / Grim Reaper
for Victor Wolf / Grim Reaper in Casper (2002)
Suggested by nightmare1398
Grace Sadowsky is a successful teacher who's assigned by her husband, Frank to look as a house for him to realtor it where she goes to an abandoned Victorian house, haunted by Casper who lives alone. Grade synopsized this and takes Casper with her to live with them a foster-like child. Where he meets their teenage daughter, Emily. Meanwhile in town, reports of people have been mysteriously killed as many ghosts believe to be Grim Reaper lurking the town and soon has his desires for Grace as his chosen bride of the dead. Only to reveal it was a ghost copycatting Death named Victor Wold but soon discover he might have a connection to Casper's unfortunate death 30 years prior and how he may be connected with Emily's unhinged boyfriend who's Victor's grandson as they team up to kill Emily. And with the help of Casper's buffon cousin, Spooky, the Sadowskys must face Death and banish him to the spirit dimension before they take Grace, send Casper to hell and continue their murders as grandfather and son.
