Alan Rickman

[JadenCollins]

Rest In Peace Alan.


He'll be missed...



Goodbye to our professor Snape

[Harry D]

A truly talented and versatile actor. He'll be greatly missed.

[Errata]

oh COME ON! On my BIRTHDAY??? What the everloving ****?

DAMMMIT. Damn it.

[JadenCollins]

oh COME ON! On my BIRTHDAY??? What the everloving ****?

DAMMMIT. Damn it.

Unfortunately, yes...



Anyways, Happy Birthday!

[Mayerling]

And so we say farewell to Professor Snape of Hogwarts. Goodbye to a fine actor.

By the way, another fine British born actor died today - Brian Bedford passed on at his home in California.

Jeff

[Errata]

And so we say farewell to Professor Snape of Hogwarts. Goodbye to a fine actor.

By the way, another fine British born actor died today - Brian Bedford passed on at his home in California.

Jeff

That one hurt too. I can recite the entirety of Disney's Robin Hood from start to finish. It's like cancer is deliberately hunting down and snuffing out my childhood heroes.

[Rosella]

This has been a terrible week. Three of the greats passing. RIP all.

[Hercule Poirot]

He was certainly the vilain everyone would like to hate the most.

[JadenCollins]

He was certainly the vilain everyone would like to hate the most.

everyone's favorite villain.


At the end, he was a hero, and still is.

[Robert]

I am out of the loop with modern TV, but I do remember him as Obadiah Slope in The Barchester Chronicles. He was very good in that.

[Mayerling]

I am out of the loop with modern TV, but I do remember him as Obadiah Slope in The Barchester Chronicles. He was very good in that.

Boy that was decades ago (around 1981 or so). Donald Pleasance had one of his last roles as Reverend Septimus Harding, and I believe Angela Pleasance (his actual daughter) played Harding's younger daughter. The actor who played King George III in "The Madness of King George" and "Sir Humphrey" in "Yes Minister" was "Archdeacon Grantly". But they only did "The Warden" and "Barchester Towers". They left out four other novels in that Trollope series. When they had done the "Palliser" novels in the 1970s with Susan Hampshire (Derek Jacobi had a role in two of the novels) they did the whole series of novels there.

Jeff

[Mayerling]

Boy that was decades ago (around 1981 or so). Donald Pleasance had one of his last roles as Reverend Septimus Harding, and I believe Angela Pleasance (his actual daughter) played Harding's younger daughter. The actor who played King George III in "The Madness of King George" and "Sir Humphrey" in "Yes Minister" was "Archdeacon Grantly".* But they only did "The Warden" and "Barchester Towers". They left out four other novels in that Trollope series. When they had done the "Palliser" novels in the 1970s with Susan Hampshire (Derek Jacobi had a role in two of the novels) they did the whole series of novels there.

*I have since remembered his name: the late Nigel Hawthorne.


Jeff

Sorry for forgetting the name.

Jeff

[Robert]

Hi Jeff

Pleasence and his daughter also appeared together in "From Beyond The Grave."

[SirJohnFalstaff]

Rickman

There is a scene in the movie Michael Collins, where Liam Neeson and Aidan Quinn help Alan Rickman escape from jail. They dress him as a woman and the conversation they have in the coach while getting away is one of my favorite cinema moment.

I liked him a lot as an actor. Particularly his speech pattern.