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Alan Rickman, star of stage and 'Harry Potter' dies at 69

The Associated Press
In this Tuesday, June 9, 2015 file photo, actor Alan Rickman attends The Public Theater's Annual Gala at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, in New York. British actor Alan Rickman, whose career ranged from Britains Royal Shakespeare Company to the Harry Potter films, has died. He was 69. Rickmans family said Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016 that the actor had died after a battle with cancer. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
In this Tuesday, June 9, 2015 file photo, actor Alan Rickman attends The Public Theater's Annual Gala at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, in New York. British actor Alan Rickman, whose career ranged from Britains Royal Shakespeare Company to the Harry Potter films, has died. He was 69. Rickmans family said Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016 that the actor had died after a battle with cancer. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File) Charles Sykes AP
LONDON (AP)

British actor Alan Rickman, whose career ranged from Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company to the "Harry Potter" films, has died. He was 69.

Rickman's family said Thursday that the actor had died after a battle with cancer.

His breakout role was as the scheming Vicomte de Valmont in an acclaimed 1985 RSC production of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses."

Film roles included "Truly, Madly, Deeply," ''Love Actually" and the Potter films, in which he played the ambiguous Dark Arts teacher Severus Snape.

This story was originally published January 14, 2016 at 8:07 AM.

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