This has been one hell of a week for bad news - first the shock announcement of David Bowie's death, and now the world has lost another talented and much-loved entertainer, the actor and director Alan Rickman. At the risk of turning this 'ere blog into Obituary Corner, I just wanted to say how saddened I am by this and how much I'll miss this highly talented man who could always lend some class to any project he was involved in. ( Sarah is a big fan of his too and was really upset. ) Whenever I think of Rickman, as I obviously have today, I always go back to his breakout performance as the silkily evil Hans Gruber in
Die Hard. Rickman wrote the Hollywood rulebook here for "Brit actor plays European villain" and created a truly iconic role.
Of course, he went on to phenomenal success as antihero wizard Severus Snape in the
Harry Potter films but he had a hell of an acting range and was fantastic in such diverse movies as
A Little Chaos,
Snowcake,
Sense And Sensibility and the outrageous
Dogma...
RIP Alan Rickman
21st February 1946 / 14th January 2016
"Give him a big hand...he's British!"
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....and now Dan ( Grizzly Adams ) Haggerty.
Please put your sythe away, Mr. Reaper!
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Was watching "The Butler" on DVD at the weekend (a truly amazing film) and Alan Rickman played Ronald Reagan showing just how versatile and good an actor he was - another person like Bowie etc that will be sorely missed by a lot of folk (they may just not know it yet).
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@John
The Reaper has been working overtime lately, hasn't he?
@Paul
I'd completely forgotten that Rickman had played Reagan. As you say, it shows the man's often-overlooked versatility. Have you ever seen a film called Snowcake? It's a low-key, poignant movie about grief and guilt that is a lot funnier than you'd expect and features wonderful performances from Rickman and Sigourney Weaver. Well worth checking out.
The bastard ignored my plea and has taken Glen Frey now!
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Hi , No I have not seen "Snowcake" it sounds interesting and I also like Sigourney Weaver so will look that one out, thanks. Yeah really sad news about Glen Frey as well John , it has not been a good end to 2015 and start to 2016.
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