# Alan Rickman dies at 69 of cancer **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 14, 2016, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-rickman-dies-at-69-of-cancer/743124 "2016-01-14T13:00:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-rickman-dies-at-69-of-cancer/743124/61 "2016-01-14T16:06:05Z")
Right now, the Alan Rickman article on Yahoo is #72 of 75 on their headline ribbon. But ‘How to make ooey, gooey grilled cheese sandwiches’ is article #4. :rolleyes: :smack: ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-rickman-dies-at-69-of-cancer/743124/62 "2016-01-14T16:37:24Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Right now, the Alan Rickman article on Yahoo is #72 of 75 on their headline ribbon. > > But ‘How to make ooey, gooey grilled cheese sandwiches’ is article #4. > > :rolleyes: :smack: Well, just imagine Alan Rickman saying _ooey, gooey grilled cheese sandwiches_. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-rickman-dies-at-69-of-cancer/743124/63 "2016-01-14T16:44:24Z")
Gawker actually got it right - their headline: Alan Rickman, Star of Everything He Appeared In, Dead at 69. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-rickman-dies-at-69-of-cancer/743124/64 "2016-01-14T16:46:22Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Well, just imagine Alan Rickman saying _ooey, gooey grilled cheese sandwiches_. Suddenly I really really want grilled cheese sandwiches. Also who knew grilled cheese sandwiches could make my knees weak? ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-rickman-dies-at-69-of-cancer/743124/65 "2016-01-14T16:59:32Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Gawker actually got it right - their headline: > > Alan Rickman, Star of Everything He Appeared In, Dead at 69. That is perfectly accurate ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-rickman-dies-at-69-of-cancer/743124/66 "2016-01-14T17:01:50Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Gawker actually got it right - their headline: > > Alan Rickman, Star of Everything He Appeared In, Dead at 69. That’s really cool. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-rickman-dies-at-69-of-cancer/743124/67 "2016-01-14T17:08:42Z")
It’s clearly an awful year to be age 69. ☹ Another real heartbreaker to lose such a wonderful, marvelous, exceptional, likeable actor. What a magnificent villain he was! A scenery chewer in all the right ways. I’m so angry that I will never see him in a new film again. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-rickman-dies-at-69-of-cancer/743124/68 "2016-01-14T17:39:33Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Gawker actually got it right - their headline: > > Alan Rickman, Star of Everything He Appeared In, Dead at 69. wonderful, perfect, thanks for sharing ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-rickman-dies-at-69-of-cancer/743124/69 "2016-01-14T17:40:17Z")
Farewell, Colonel Brandon! ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-rickman-dies-at-69-of-cancer/743124/70 "2016-01-14T17:57:36Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Gawker actually got it right - their headline: > > Alan Rickman, Star of Everything He Appeared In, Dead at 69. Yes, wonderful. A dazzling actor every time. One of my all-time favorites. > [@stillownedbysetters](#): > > I’m so angry that I will never see him in a new film again. Well, there’s one. He’s in the upcoming movie _Eye in the Sky_ about drone war in Kenya. I’m making a point of seeing it. ---
**Author:** ![Gothic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Gothic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gothic)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-rickman-dies-at-69-of-cancer/743124/71 "2016-01-14T18:07:55Z")
I wish I could see all his deleted scenes as the Sheriff in Robin Hood : Prince of Thieves. I heard his part was heavily edited for petty reasons. Hmm… well maybe I can after I get off work. [https://www.youtube.com/results?search\_query=alan+rickman+deleted+scenes](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=alan+rickman+deleted+scenes) ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-rickman-dies-at-69-of-cancer/743124/72 "2016-01-14T18:18:16Z")
And, since today was also the day the Oscar nominations were announced, it’s a good time to point out that Alan was never even nominated for an Academy Award. How awful is that? ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-rickman-dies-at-69-of-cancer/743124/73 "2016-01-14T18:21:20Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > And, since today was also the day the Oscar nominations were announced, it’s a good time to point out that Alan was never even nominated for an Academy Award. How awful is that? I think he was nominated a few times, but never won. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-rickman-dies-at-69-of-cancer/743124/74 "2016-01-14T18:25:32Z")
I’ve never seen one bad performance by him. Damn. To add to all the other credits, he was Master of Ceremonies in Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells 2 - and even better at it than Viv Stanshall or any of the other candidates who appear on the single. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-rickman-dies-at-69-of-cancer/743124/75 "2016-01-14T18:25:36Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > I think he was nominated a few times, but never won. [Nope.](http://www.bustle.com/articles/135555-how-many-oscars-did-alan-rickman-have-not-enough-for-an-actor-of-his-calibur) ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-rickman-dies-at-69-of-cancer/743124/76 "2016-01-14T18:27:37Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I just wanted to mention his appearance in _[Dogma](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDJq0bNJbQA)_, one of my favorite films. “Tell someone that you’re the Metatron and they stare at you blankly. Mention something from a Charlton Heston movie and suddenly _everybody’s_ a religious scholar!” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-rickman-dies-at-69-of-cancer/743124/77 "2016-01-14T18:36:42Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > …even though I’m no fan of romances, I’ll now seek out both _Truly Madly Deeply_ and _Love Actually_… And _Sense and Sensibility_. I guarantee you won’t be sorry. > [@koeeoaddi](#): > > RIP to the best Colonel Brandon imaginable. ☹ Quite. > [@Sailboat](#): > > I think he was nominated [for an Oscar] a few times, but never won. Alas, no: [List of awards and nominations received by Alan Rickman - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Alan_Rickman) ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-rickman-dies-at-69-of-cancer/743124/78 "2016-01-14T18:44:02Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Professor Snape is defined by him. I know that he looks somewhat different from the role as described in the book, but he absolutely 100% nailed that role. IIRC, J.K. Rowling said once that in the last three HP books, written concurrently with the films, the characters of Snape and Hermione developed as they did because they were played by Alan Rickman and by Emma Watson. DanRad and Rupert Grint were on their own, because JKR had firm ideas of where she wanted Harry and Ron to go, but those others were influenced by her thinking “How would Emma play this?” or “I have to give Alan a really good scene.” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-rickman-dies-at-69-of-cancer/743124/79 "2016-01-14T18:58:27Z")
A nice _Guardian_ tribute, with film clips, here: [Alan Rickman: an actor of singular charm and hypnotic charisma | Alan Rickman | The Guardian](http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2016/jan/14/alan-rickman-an-actor-of-singular-charisma-whose-hold-over-audiences-was-hypnotic) ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-rickman-dies-at-69-of-cancer/743124/80 "2016-01-14T19:05:21Z")
My SO says that at this rate we’ll only have Jayden Smith and Channing Tatum left over by 2017. ☹ I kicked him in the shin. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-rickman-dies-at-69-of-cancer/743124.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alan-rickman-dies-at-69-of-cancer/743124.md?page=5)