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We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

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Alan Rickman
Age: 69 †
Born: 1946
Born: February 21
Died: 2016
Died: January 14
Actor
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Graphic Designer
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
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Theatrical Director
Hammersmith
London
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
Rickman
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