Alan Rickman The Unauthorised Biography Maureen Paton
Alan Rickman is that rarest of an internationally acclaimed Hollywood movie star, and an actor whose skills are praised by critics and cinemagoers alike. His performances are marked by brooding intensity and a languid yet menacing charm. With his glittering eyes and striking looks, Rickman’s presence on stage or screen is truly unforgettable.
Catapulted to stage stardom in Les Liaisons Dangereuses after more than ten years’ hard work in theatre and television, Alan Rickman’s face and distinctive drawl are now well-known around the world. In Die Hard and Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, his irresistible villains stole the movie, and a string of other films testify to his seemingly endless Truly Madly, Deeply; An Awfully Big Adventure; and the sensationally successful Sense and Sensibility.
From West London working-class roots to Hollywood stardom, Alan Rickman has come a long but now that this committed socialist finds himself working in the dream factory of capitalism, what has been the cost to his beliefs and ideals?
Author Maureen Paton has talked to Rickman’s friends and colleagues to build a perceptive portrait of this very private man. As she charts his career and hard-won success and explores his enigmatic personality, Alan Rickman’s complex character is revealed more fully than ever before.
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- Acknowledgements
- Part 1. Prologue: Vinegar in the salad
- Part 2: The faustian gift
- Part 3: The surrogate father
- Part 4: He’s very keep death off the roads
- Part 5: The wickedest man in Britain
- Part 6: I want women
- Part 7: Valmont in curlers
- Part 8: A Deal With The Devil
- Part 9: How They Shot the Sheriff
- Part 10: Immortal Longings
- Part 11: The Sinking Feeling
- Part 12: Animal Magnetism
- Part 13: God Didn’t mean him to play small roles
- Part 14: Rocket to the Moon
- Part 15: The Black Mid-winter
- Part 16: Shrieks across the Atlantic
- Part 17: The Slithery Slope to Snape