Actor Alan Rickman Passed away

Alan Rickman, the British actor with the unforgettable voice who played the brooding  Professor Severus Snape in the "Harry Potter" films as well as "Die Hard" villain Hans  Gruber, died after a short battle with cancer. The actor had been a big-screen staple  since first shooting to global acclaim in 1988, when he starred as Hans Gruber, Bruce  Willis’s sardonic, dastardly adversary in Die Hard – a part he was offered two days after arriving in Los Angeles, aged 41. in 1991, he starred a cellist opposite Juliet Stevenson in Anthony Minghella’s affecting supernatural romance Truly, Madly, Deeply;  four years later he was the honorable and modest Col Brandon in Sense and Sensibility, starring and scripted by Emma Thompson.