My favourite Rickman role is in 1995's Sense and Sensibility, where he plays Colonel Brandon, the sober middle aged man who falls in love with impetuous young Marianne Dashwood. He is excellent as Brandon, a man of integrity who is ruefully aware that Marianne will never consider him as a suitor. He loves her quietly, patiently, and hopelessly, yet is too honourable to use incriminating information he possesses about his rival to gain an advantage. Alan Rickman was particularly effective in this role, as he was in so many others. He will be missed.