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It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

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Alan Rickman
Age: 69 †
Born: 1946
Born: February 21
Died: 2016
Died: January 14
Actor
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Stage Actor
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Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
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