ChronolARgy
...or Where's Alan?
Note from Ali-Pat:
Technical difficulties have prevented me from updating and correcting this page.
Eventually, I will publish a whole new chronolARgy.
Year (age)
Appeared in/Author, Adapted By
Role
Venue
1957* (11) Coriolanus/Shakespeare Volumnia Latymer Upper School
1962 (16) Serjeant Musgrave's Dance/Arden & D'Arcy Annie the Barmaid Latymer Upper School
1963 (17) Caucasian Chalk Circle/Brecht Grusha Latymer Upper School
Knight of the Burning Pestle/Beumont Humphrey Latymer Upper School
Ali Baba and the Seven Dwarves Sixth Wife of Ali Baba  Latymer Upper School
1964 (18) Portrait of Scythrop/Peacock (unknown) Latymer Upper School
Cloud Over the Morning/Morris Grikos Latymer Upper School
The Alchemist/Jonson Sir Epicure Mammon Latymer Upper School
1965 (19) Night Must Fall/Williams Danny Brook Green Players 
(amateur production)
1966-72 (20-26) The Borgia Orgy/Melville (unknown) Court Drama Group
(amateur production)
The Hostage/Behan (unknown) Court--amateur
Romeo and Juliet/Shakespeare Romeo Court--amateur
Measure for Measure/Shakespeare (unknown) Court--amateur
A View from the Bridge/Miller (unknown) Court--amateur
1971 (25) Backbone/Rosen Malcolm Levin Court--amateur
1973 (27) Uncle Vanya/Chekhov Vanya Royal Acad. of DramaticArt
(RADA)--Vanbrugh Theatre Club
Ghosts/Ibsen Pastor Manders RADA--Vanbrugh
1973/74(27-28) The Lower Depths/Gorky Krivoy Zob RADA--Vanbrugh
1974 (28) Little Mary Sunshine/Besoyan Captain Warrington RADA--Vanbrugh
Man and Superman/Shaw Roebuck Ramsden RADA--Vanbrugh
Measure for Measure/Shakespeare Angelo RADA--Vanbrugh
Lock Up Your Daughters/Miles Dabble Library Theatre Company,
Manchester
1974/75 (28-29) Babes in the Woods/Besoyan chorus Library Theatre Company
1975 (29) There's a Girl in my Soup/Frisby Andrew Hunter Library Theatre Company
Saint Joan/Shaw Inquisitor/Constable Library Theatre Company
You See, the Thing Is/Campbell (unknown) Library Theatre Company
Archives (unknown) Library Theatre Company
The 36-24-36 Show co-author Haymarket Theatre, Leicester 
Romeo and Juliet/Shakespeare Paris Haymarket Theatre
Guys and Dolls/Runyon, 
Burrows & Loesser & Swerling
Liverlips Louie Haymarket--UK Tour
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat/Rice & Webber Asher Haymarket--UK Tour
1976 (30) Antique Baby (unknown) Haymarket Theatre
Nijinsky/Doyle Nijinsky Sheffield Crucible
The Carnation Gang/Poliakoff Daniel Sheffield Crucible
When We Dead Awaken/Ibsen Rubek Sheffield Crucible
As You Like It/Shakespeare Jaques Sheffield Crucible
Gunslinger/Crane Little Thunder/
Chief Black Moon
Phoenix Theatre Company--
UK Tour
Ave You Heard the One About Joey Baker director Travers Edinburgh
Sherlock Holmes/Gilette Sherlock Holmes Birmingham Reperatory
Dick Whittington/Moffat & MacKriel King Rat Theatre Royal, Bristol
1976/77 (30-31) Measure for Measure Friar Peter Birmingham Rep/Edinburgh 
Festival--European Tour
The Devil is an Ass/Jonson, Barnes Wittipol Birm Rep/Edinburgh Fst--Europe
1977 (31) Hamlet/Shakespeare Laertes Bristol Old Vic
Ubu Rex/Jarry Ma Ubu Bristol Old Vic
Man is Man/Brecht,  Uriah Shelly Bristol Old Vic
1978 (32) Romeo and Juliet/Shakespeare Tybalt BBC Television, Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) Production
The Tempest/Shakespeare Ferdinand RSC, Stratford
Captain Swing/Whelan Farquarson RSC, Stratford
Love's Labour's Lost/Shakespeare Boyet RSC, Stratford
Antony and Cleopatra/Shakespeare Thidias/Alexas RSC, Stratford
Love's Labour's Lost/Shakespeare Boyet RSC, Aldwych Theatre, London
1979 (33) Therese Raquin/Zola, Mackie Vidal BBC TV miniseries
Antonio/Marston, Barnes Antonio Nottingham Playhouse
Fears and Miseries of the Third Reich/Brecht, Judge + 6 more roles Glasgow Citizens
1980 (34) Desperately Yours/Wax assistant director Colonnades Theater, NY
Commitments/Hughes Hugh Bush Theatre
The Devil Himself/Wedekind, Barnes (unknown) Lyric Studio, Hammersmith, London
The Summer Party Nigel Sheffield Crucible
1981 (35) The Philadelphia Story/Barry Mike Connor Oxford Playhouse
The Brothers Karamazov/Dostoyevsky, Ivan Edinburgh Festival, USSR tour
The Last Elephant/Davis (unknown) Bush Theatre
The Seagull/Chekov, Kilroy Trigorin/Aston The Royal Court, London
1982 (36) Busted/Davis Simon Jacks UK TV drama
Smiley's People/LeCarre Brownlow BBC TV miniseries
Pity in History/Barker Chaplain Croop UK TV drama
1983 (37) Other Worlds/Holman asst. director The Royal Court, London
Bad Language/Hughes Bob Hampstead Theatre
The Grass Widow/Wilson Dennis The Royal Court, London
Actors, or Playing for Real/de Vega, Barnes Carinus BBC Radio
The Dutch Courtesan/Marston, Barnes Cocledemoy BBC Radio
Rope/Hamilton Rupert Cadell BBC Radio
1984 (38) Barchester Chronicles/Trollope, Plater Rev. Obadiah Slope BBC TV miniseries
The Lucky Chance Gayman The Royal Court, London
The Manchester Enthusiasts/D'Arcy & Arden (unknown) BBC Radio
pre 1985 (<39) A Good Man in Africa/Boyd, Davis (unknown) BBC Radio
A Trick to Catch the Old one/
Middleton, Barnes
Theodorus Witgood BBC Radio
Caught on the Crossing (unknown) BBC Radio
Gridlock/Gearing Charles BBC Radio
Lorenzaccio/de Musset, Stott or Thonpson (unknown) BBC Radio
That Man Bracken/Kilroy Brendan Bracken BBC Radio
The Seagull/Chekhov, Kilroy Trigorin/Aston BBC Radio
Polly/Gay (unknown) BBC Radio
1985 (39) Wetherby Bearded Man Film
Girls on Top:  Four Play/French & Saunders Dimitri UK TV comedy
Girls on Top:  Cancel Toast/French & Saunders Voice of RADA UK TV comedy
Troilus and Cressida/Shakespeare Achilles RSC
The Contemplative LIfe/Kahan Brother James BBC Radio
The Return of the Native/Hardy reader Book on Tape
1985/86 (39-40) Revolutionary Witness:  The Preacher/Barnes Jacques Roux UK TV drama
As You Like it/Shakespeare Jaques RSC
Les Liaisons Dangereuses/Laclos, Hampton Valmont RSC, Stratford's Other Place and Barbican, the Pit, London
Mephisto/Mnouchkine Hendrik Hofgen RSC, Barbican
Live Wax/Wax director Edinburgh Festival
Blood Wedding/Garcia Lorca Leonardo BBC Radio
Blind Corner/Yates reader Book on Tape
1986/87 (40-41) Les Liaisons Dangereuses/Laclos, Hampton Valmont RSC, The Music Box, New York
1988 (42) Die Hard/De Souza Hans Gruber Film
The  Peace of Brest/Shatrov translator Barbicon, London
1989 (43) The January Man/Shanley Ed the Painter Film
Spirit of Man:  From Sleep and Shadow/Barnes Israel Yates UK TV drama
Benefactors/Frayn Colin Molyneux UK TV drama
A Little Like Drowning/Minghella Alfredo Mare BBC Radio
1989/90 (43-44) Billy and Me/Barnes Puppeteer 
and all other voices
BBC Radio
1990 (44) Quigley Down Under Elliot Marston Film
1991 (45) Close My Eyes/Poliakoff Sinclair Bryant Film
Closet Land Interrogator Film
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves/Densham Sheriff of Nottingham Film
Truly, Madly, Deeply/Minghella Jamie Film
Tango at the End of Winter/Shimizo Kiyomura Sei King's Theatre, Edinburgh Festival
and Picadilly, London
1992 (46) Bob Roberts/Robbins Lukas Hart III Film
Victoria Woods All Day Breakfast/Woods himself UK TV comedy
Hamlet/Shakespeare Hamlet Riverside Studio, London, UK tour
Ruby Wax:  The Full Wax/Wax director (unknown)
1993 (47) Fallen Angels:  Murder Obliquely/
Woolrich, Silver
Dwight Billings Showtime miniseries, US TV
Tubular Bells II/Oldham A Strolling Player Musical Recording
1994 (48) Mesmer/Potter Franz Anton Mesmer Film
Truly, Madly Alan Rickman himself BBC TV documentary
The Magic of My Youth/Calder-Marshall reader BBC Radio
Le Morte d'Arthur/Malory reader BBC Radio
1995 (49) An Awfully Big Adventure/Bainbridge, Wood P. L. O'Hara Film
Sense and Sensibility/Austen Christopher Brandon Film
Lumiere and Company himself Film
The Winter Guest/MacDonald director West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds 
and Almeida Theatre, London
Things Change:  Refuse to Dance/Dore dance instructor Musical Recording
1996 (50) The Winter Guest/MacDonald director Film
Michael Collins/Jordan Eamon de Valera Film
Rasputin/Pruce Grigori Rasputin HBO drama, US TV
Love in a Cold Climate, various reader Roundabout Theater, NY
1998 (52) Antony and Cleopatra/Shakespeare Marc Antony Royal National/Olivier Theatre,
London
1999 (53) Dark Harbor/Howard & Lazard David Weinberg Film
Judas Kiss/Gutierrez David Friedman Film
Dogma/Smith Metatron Film
Galaxy Quest/Howard & Gordon Alexander Dane Film
2000 (54) Help!  I'm a Fish/Fjeldmark and Kulerich Joe the Bad Fish Film (animated)
Eco Challenge Argentina/ narrator Discovery Channel documentary, 
US TV
Babitsky's War/ narrator Channel 4 documentary, UK TV
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings/Wood Cpt. George Fallon UK TV comedy
Beckett on Film:  Play/Beckett Man UK TV drama
Peace One Day/ (unknown) UK TV documentary (?)
In Demand/Spiteri (Texas) dancer/romancer Music Video
Burma Campaign Benefit 
(Aung San Suu Kyi birthday celebration)
reader Royal Court Theatre
Help!  I'm a Fish Soundtrack:  Intelligence Song singer Musical Recording
2001 (55) Blow Dry/Beaufoy Phil Allen Film
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone/Rowling, Kloves Prof. Severus Snape Film
The Search for John Gissing/Binder John Gissing Film
Willows aka Inspiration 
(per IMDB, unconfirmed)
exec. producer Film
We Know Where You Live:  Four Yorkshiremen Yorkshireman UK TV comedy special
The Billy Elliot Boy/ himself UK TV documentary
Voices of Exile (TortureCare) reader Royal Festival Hall
Int'l Writers Season of the Orange Word/
poetry by Goran Simic
reader Apollo Theatre
2001/02 (55-56) Private Lives/Coward Elyot Chase Albery Theare, London
2002 (56) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets/Rowling, Kloves Prof. Severus Snape Film
Standing Room Only/Furness himself Film short
King of the Hill:  Joust Like a Woman/Judge King Philip Motzinger US TV animated comedy
When Love Speaks/Shakespeare presenter/reader The Old Vic, London
Private Lives/Coward Elyot Chase Richard Rodgers Theater, NY
When Love Speaks/Shakespeare reader The Old Vic, London
2003 (57) Love Actually/Curtis Harry Film
Light Pen drawing/Tribute to Jimmy Stewart speaker, artist Turner Classic Movies,
US TV advertisement
Collateral Damage reader
To Maria with Love (tribute to Maria Bjornson)
Thomas
reader
Cries from the Heart 
(Human Rights Watch benefit)
reader
2004 (58) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Severus Snape Film
Something the Lord Made Alfred Blalock HBO film, USA TV
*Dates are approximate and are derived from listings in The Internet Movie Database and the Unofficial Alan Rickman Fan Page.

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