Paton

Maureen Paton

ALAN RICKMAN

The Unauthorised Biography

ILLUSTRATIONS

Alan Rickman's school nativity play (C. Hulloh)
Alan Rickman in Guys and Dolls, 1975 (Haymarket Theatre)
Alan on tour with the rep in Ibsen's When We Dead Awaken (Gerald Murray)
First stint at the RSC with Glenda Jackson and Juliet Stevenson (Shakespeare Centre Library/Joe Cocks)
As Antonio in 1979 (Shakespeare Centre Library/Joe Cocks)
As Achilles in Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare Centre Library/Joe Cocks)
The cast of Lucky Chance As Vicomte de Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (ShakespeareCentre Library)
First cinematic role in Die Hard (Peter Sorel)
Truly Madly Deeply with Juliet Stevenson (ВВС/Film Four) Close My Eyes with Saskia Reeves and Clive Owen (Kobal)
As the psychotic Sheriff of Nottingham (Morgan Creek)
The ultimate challenge - as Hamlet in 1992 (Nottingham Playhouse/ Donald Cooper)
Taking the lead role in Dennis Potter's Mesmer (The Ronald Grant Archive)
As Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility (Kobal) With Rima Horton, his partner (Rex Features)
In Galaxy Quest (The Ronald Grant Archive)
As Professor Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (The Ronald Grant Archive)
With Mel Smith at the Latymer Arts Centre (Latymer Upper)