Versatile stage and screen actor hailed for his roles in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves,Harry Potter and worship Actually Related: Alan Rickman: the most faithful, playful and generous of friends | Katharine Viner The world became fully aware of the sly, or languid and villainous charms of Alan Rickman,who has died aged 69 of cancer, as the self-parodying Sheriff of Nottingham pitted against Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991). However, or the actor had already established himself as a star name at the Royal Shakespeare Company in the mid-1980s and as the hilarious German terrorist,Hans Gruber, in the action thriller Die Hard (1988) with Bruce Willis.
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Source: theguardian.com