Alan Rickman (1946–2016)
Author of Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
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Works by Alan Rickman
Associated Works
Die Hard Legacy Collection [Die Hard / Die Hard 2 / Die Hard with a Vengeance / Live Free or Die Hard / A Good Day to… (2015) — Actor — 116 copies
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Parts 1 & 2 [Double Feature] (2012) — Actor — 100 copies, 1 review
HP Double Feature: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [and] Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Year 1 and Year… (2011) — Actor — 67 copies
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [and] Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Double Feature Video) (2011) — Actor — 50 copies
Bob Roberts [1992 film] 23 copies
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street: The 2007 Motion Picture Soundtrack (2007) — Preformer — 16 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Rickman, Alan Sidney Patrick
- Birthdate
- 1946-02-21
- Date of death
- 2016-01-14
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Hammersmith, London, England, UK
- Place of death
- London, England, UK
- Places of residence
- London, England, UK
- Education
- Chelsea College of Art and Design (1968)
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1974) - Occupations
- actor
film director - Organizations
- Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Academny of Dramatic Art
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Alan Rickman in Legacy Libraries (April 2022)
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Having a way to get into Alan Rickman's mind is unreal. It's hard to describe what reading this bok is like. Having insight into what he was going though and how he describes what was going on is interesting. THe afterword by his wife destroyed me. I could not stop crying. I highly recommend this book to everyone.
Wonderful. But so much name dropping, he must have known almost everyone in the industry.
Well I don't know. In one way very boring, literally a diary. So much better than a memoir though, and kind of mesmerizing, somehow 20 hours just flew by. There's a bit of beauty in mundanity. I know I don't know Alan Rickman, but I miss him.
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This is a really hard one to review, it is literally the publishing of the much-missed Alan Rickman’s diaries. Heavily edited, we are given a chapter for each year year of his life shortly after his first movie breakthrough role at the age of 42, Hans Gruber from ‘Die Hard’.
Rickman’s acerbic wit…blunt honesty and joy for life shines through as we live his life through movies he appears in, the thoughts on those he works with and the genuine love for all those he connects with.
We are taken through his exasperation of the press at linking him with certain roles…’Playing Doctor Who? Rubbish’…his wonderful insight into those around him and a real and profound sharing of friendships and relationships.
We see life through his eyes..the loss of colleagues…the loss of his mother and the loss of his health are all laid out before us. But the love of his partner who he then marries spring off the page and are so heart warming….honest and true.
I wasn’t sure how to write a review of someone’s daily events…but somehow…like Rickman’s diaries…it simply happened.
Highly recommended.… (more)