Ahead, see the late star’s greatest on-screen roles.

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

“That’s it, then.

Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call of Christmas!”

The Best of Alan Rickman

20th Century Fox/Courtesy Everett Collection; Warner Bros. ; Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection

The actor steals this action-romp from under the nose of Kevin Costner as a deliciously dastardly Sheriff of Nottingham.

Galaxy Quest (1999)

“How did I come to this?

I played Richard III.

Die Hard (1988)

20th Century Fox/ Everett Collection

There were five curtain calls!”

Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990)

The Samuel Goldwyn Company

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

Warner Bros.

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Columbia Pictures

Dogma (1999)

Lionsgate Films

Galaxy Quest (1999)

DreamWorks Pictures

The Harry Potter Film Series (2001 - 2011)

Warner Bros. Pictures

Love Actually (2003)

Universal Pictures

Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013)

The Weinstein Company