Alan Rickman

Recently he's been casted to play Marvin's voice in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie. Victor Sjöström passed away in Stockholm at the age of eighty and was interred there in the Norra begravningsplatsen. Although he has never married, he has been romantically linked to Rima Horton since their days at the Chelsea College of Art. Horton is a politician affiliated with the Labour Party. For the next fifteen years, Sjöström performed a variety of leading roles in more than a dozen films and worked as director of the "Svensk Film Industri." At age 78 he gave his final acting performance, an acclaimed effort in the 1957 Ingmar Bergman film, Wild Strawberries. He also "narrated" the song Bell on the album Tubular Bells II. Uncomfortable with the modifications needed to direct talking films, Victor Sjöström returned to Sweden where he directed two more silent films before his final directing effort in 1937, an English language drama filmed in the United Kingdom titled Under the Red Robe. Rickman has recently been immortalised in a song composed by English musician Adam Leonard. He went on to direct great stars of the day such as Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lillian Gish and Norma Shearer in another eight films in America before his first talkie in 1930.

In recent years he has come to the attention of a younger audience through his appearances as the apparently-villainous Severus Snape in the Harry Potter movies. In 1924, using the Americanized name, Victor Seastrom, he made Name the Man, a dramatic film based on the Hall Caine novel. He plays mostly period roles in British movies, while on the Hollywood screen he is typecast as the over-the-top villain. In Sweden, he acted in his own films as well as in those for others but in Hollywood, he devoted himself to directing. He made a particular impression as the male lead in the 1985 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and became known to television audiences playing the role of Mr Slope in the BBC's 1980s adaptation of Barchester Towers. Mayer to work in the United States. Since then, he has been a constant presence on the British stage. Between then and 1923, he directed another forty-one films before accepting an offer from Louis B.

Born in Hammersmith, London to a working-class family, Rickman was a graphic designer before entering the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London in the early seventies. Drawn from the stage to the fledgling motion picture industry, he made his first silent film in 1912 under the direction of Mauritz Stiller. Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (born February 21, 1946) is a British stage and screen actor. From this, he went on to become one of the most important forces in the development of the Swedish film industry. Die Hard (1988), as Hans Gruber. Returning to live with relatives in Stockholm, he was 17 years old when he began his acting career on stage as a member of a touring theater company. January Man (1989), as Ed, the painter. Born in Silbodal, Värmland County, Sweden, he was only a year old when his family moved to Brooklyn, New York where he remained until the death of his mother when he was seven years old.

Quigley Down Under (1990), as Alan Marston, an unscrupulous ranch owner. Victor Sjöström, born September 20, 1879 - died January 3, 1960, was a Swedish actor, screenwriter, and film director. Truly Madly Deeply (1991). Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), as the Sheriff of Nottingham. Close My Eyes (1991).

Mesmer (1994), as Franz Mesmer. An Awfully Big Adventure (1995). Sense and Sensibility (1995), as Colonel Brandon. Rasputin (1996), as Grigori Rasputin.

Michael Collins (1996), as Eamon de Valera. The Winter Guest (1997). Judas Kiss (1998), as Detective David Friedman. Dark Harbor (1998), as David Weinberg.

Dogma (1999), as Metatron. Galaxy Quest (1999), as Alexander Dane. Blow Dry (2001), as Phil Allen. Harry Potter series, as Professor Severus Snape.

Love Actually (2003), as Harry. Alfred Blalock. Something the Lord Made (2004), as Dr.