Alan Rickman

British actor Alan Rickman passed away, losing a battle against cancer at the age of 69. Like film fans the world over, at the HFPA we mourn the consummate professional and beloved thespian (a term ever so appropriate for this classically trained actor). Among his accomplishments, Rickman counts a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance By An Actor In A MiniSeries Or Motion Picture Made For Television for his titular role in HBOs Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny. That was in 1997; a couple of years later