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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

Claude Frollo
for Claude Frollo in Hunchback of Notre Dame (2024)
Suggested by adrianabengozarlopez

In 15th century Paris, the Archdeacon Judge Frollo lost his brother allegedly because of a gypsy, for which he develops a racist hatred towards gypsies, starting a hunt against them. In an assault, he discovers the gypsy whom blames for the death of his brother, for which he pursues her until he murders her at the foot of the Notre Dame Cathedral, to later discover that she was carrying a newborn with her who suffered from a deformity. physical, Frollo would be about to kill him too so as not to leave loose ends, but upon discovering that this is his brother's son and feeling the gaze of the saints of the Cathedral fixed on him, he seeks to redeem himself from his sin and for this, he chooses to welcome his nephew and raise him as his own son, hiding him from the rest of the people in the Notre Dame bell tower, calling him Quasimodo.





