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Humble beginnings. Alan Rickman’s school nativity play, West Acton, 1951
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Alan Rickman (far left), a poised presence in Guys and Dolls, Leicester, 1975
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Alan on tour with the rep at the Crucible, Sheffield, in Ibsen’s When We Dead Awaken, 1976
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First stint at the RSC in Antony and Cleopatra, with Glenda Jackson and a girlish Juliet Stevenson, 1978
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Alan Rickman, who also designed the poster, as Antonio in 1979
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Looking decidedly menacing as Achilles in Troilus and Cressida, 1985
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The cast of Lucky Chance, with Alan Rickman as the quaintly named Gayman, starring with long-time friend Harriet Walter, 1984
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Gayman evolves into the dissolute aristocrat Vicomte de Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, 1985
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“I’m too old but what the hell.” The ultimate challenge: as Hamlet at the Nottingham Playhouse, 1992
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Alan Rickman’s first cinematic lead role in Dennis Potter’s Mesmer, 1993
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Alan Rickman, as Colonel Brandon, finally awakens the love of Marianne (Kate Winslet) in Sense and Sensibility, 1995