An curved arrow pointing right. Alan Rickman has passed away after a battle with cancer. Many think of him simply as "Harry Potter's" Severus Snape. But Rickman's film career is much more rich.

The family of Alan Rickman ... He was 69. Rickman's early days were spent in theatre and British TV. All that changed when he won the role of Hans Gruber, Bruce Willis's movie-stealing nemesis ...