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I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

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Alan Rickman
Age: 69 †
Born: 1946
Born: February 21
Died: 2016
Died: January 14
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Film Director
Film Producer
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Stage Actor
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Hammersmith
London
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
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I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun.
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