Alan Poul
Alan Poul is an American film and television producer and director with a long and distinguished record. Among the shows on which he has served as both Executive Producer and Director are "Six Feet Under," "The Newsroom," "Tales of the City," "Swingtown," and "The Eddy." Over the course of his career he has received an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two Producers Guild Awards, three Peabody Awards, and six GLAAD Awards. Other television producing credits include "My So-Called Life" (Producer), "MotherFatherSon" (Executive Producer), "The Pacific Century" (Producer, Emmy Award), and "Westworld" (Consulting Producer, Season 1). Additional television directing credits include "Rome," "Big Love," "Grace and Frankie," "The Big C," and the pilots for "GCB" and "Perception." In 2003 he was nominated for both the DGA Award and the Directing Emmy for the "Nobody Sleeps" episode of "Six Feet Under." Prominent in his television work has been his long association with author Armistead Maupin, resulting in his producing all four miniseries based on Maupin's "Tales of the City" books, including the most recent iteration which aired on Netflix in 2019. On the feature side, Poul's producing credits include Paul Schrader's "Mishima," Ridley Scott's "Black Rain," Bernard Rose's "Candyman," Scott Winant's "Til There Was You," Jean-Marc Vallée's "Los Locos," Skip Woods' "Thursday," and Fina Torres' "Woman on Top." He made his feature directing debut in 2010 with "The Back-up Plan," starring Jennifer Lopez and Alex O'Loughlin. Poul graduated from Yale University with a degree in Japanese Language and Literature, which led to his involvement in "Mishima" and "Black Rain." He is currently (2020) revisiting his Japanese roots as Executive Producer and director of HBO Max's upcoming "Tokyo Vice." He serves on the Boards of Directors of Film Independent and Playwrights Horizons, and on the International Outreach Committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Previous board service includes The Producers Guild of America, Outfest, and GLAAD.
Alan Powell
Actor/writer/producer/musician Alan Powell is the co-founder and a principle of Monarch Media, a film and television production company based in Los Angeles. In his role at Monarch, he produced and co-wrote the screenplay for family musical "A Week Away," which Netflix will release in 2021. He is also producing the Chris Pratt comedy "The Black Belt," based on the Black List screenplay by Randall Green; an untitled country musical with award-winning duo Florida Georgia Line; military thriller "Havoc," hailing from South Korean filmmaker Byung-gil Jung; musical "The Road to Bethlehem," which is the directorial debut of Adam Anders ("The Prom"); and "Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell?," based on the acclaimed biography of a British WWII solider and prisoner of war. As an actor, Powell has worked in both feature films and television series. He was a series regular on the ABC military drama, "Quantico," and starred as an aspiring country singer in Samuel Goldwyn Films' "The Song." The multihyphenate, whose background includes founding the band Anthem Lights and subsequently founding the band's own music label, also co-wrote the music for the Netflix musical "A Week Away." He currently resides in Los Angeles, with his wife and five children.
Alan R. Duffy
Alan R. Duffy is known for Battle in Space: The Armada Attacks (2021) and Thalamos (2018).
Alan R. Rodriguez
Alan R. Rodríguez is an American Television, Stage and Screen Actor born in Queens New York and raised in the Bronx. He took an interest in acting at the early age of 8 years old. At 15 years old he attended Julia Richman High School in New York City where he enrolled in the Schools Talent Unlimited program for Theater. Upon graduating he was offered a scholarship for theater to Binghamton University. Passing on that offer he opted to become a New York City Transit Police Officer instead. After several years with the NYCTPD, the never dying urge to pursue his lifelong passion of acting won him over and he resumed his stage and screen training at HB Studios in New York City. After only 9 months of immersing himself in everything acting he landed a Guest Star role on Law and Order SVU and has continued to land roles on some of the hottest television series' such as "Blue Bloods" "Orange is the New Black" and "The Following" to name a few and does not plan on slowing down anytime soon.
Alan Rachins
Alan Rachins was born on October 3, 1942 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Showgirls (1995), L.A. Law (1986) and Dharma & Greg (1997). He has been married to Joanna Frank since March 11, 1978. They have one child.
Alan Ramirez
Alan Ramirez is known for Los Debutantes (2003), Redneck Island (2012) and Mujeres asesinas (2008).
Alan Ravenscroft
Alan Ravenscroft is a director and producer, known for The Ritchie Blackmore Story (2015), Behind the Music (1997) and Blondie's New York and the Making of Parallel Lines (2014).
Alan Richter
Alan Richter is known for The Unsolved Murder of Beverly Lynn Smith (2022).
Alan Rickman
Alan Rickman was born on a council estate in Acton, West London, to Margaret Doreen Rose (Bartlett), of English and Welsh descent, and Bernard Rickman, of Irish descent, who worked at a factory. Alan Rickman had an older brother (David), a younger brother (Michael), and a younger sister (Sheila). When Alan was 8 years old, his father died. He attended Latymer Upper School on a scholarship. He studied Graphic Design at Chelsea College of Art and Design, where he met Rima Horton, who would later become his longtime partner. After three years at Chelsea College, Rickman did graduate studies at the Royal College of Art. He opened a successful graphic design business, Graphiti, with friends and managed it for several years before his love of theatre led him to seek an audition with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). At the relatively late age of 26, Rickman received a scholarship to RADA, which started a professional acting career that has lasted nearly 40 years, a career which has spanned stage, screen and television, and overlapped into directing, as well. In 1987, he first came to the attention of American audiences as the Vicomte de Valmont in "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" on Broadway (he was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in the role). Denied the role in the film version of the show, Rickman instead made his first film appearance opposite Bruce Willis in Die Hard (1988) as the villainous Hans Gruber. His take on the urbane villain set the standard for screen villains for decades to come. Although often cited as being a master of playing villains, Rickman actually played a wide variety of characters, such as the romantic cello-playing ghost Jamie in Anthony Minghella's Truly Madly Deeply (1990) and the noble Colonel Brandon of Sense and Sensibility (1995). He treated audiences to his comedic abilities in such films as Dogma (1999), Galaxy Quest (1999) and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), and roles like Dr. Alfred Blalock in Something the Lord Made (2004), and as Alex Hughes in Snow Cake (2006), showcased his ability to play ordinary men in extraordinary situations. Rickman even conquered the daunting task of singing a role in a Stephen Sondheim musical as he took on the role of Judge Turpin in the movie adaptation of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007). In 2001, Rickman introduced himself to a whole new, younger generation of fans by taking on the role of Severus Snape in the film versions of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001). He continued to play the role through the eighth and last movie Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011). Alan Rickman died of pancreatic cancer on 14 January 2016. He was 69 years old.
Alan Riordan
Alan Riordan is an Irish actor based in Dublin and Cork, born in Cork City. Alan first appeared in 'Information for Foreigners' in the Granary theatre, 2003, before joining Corcadorca's production 'Losing Steam' as an ex-Dunlop's worker. He then studied drama at Kinsale College under Belinda and Ian Wild, playing Quince and Mustardseed in their production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. Subsequently played Estragon in 'Waiting for Godot' in Skibbereen and then a prison warder in the 'Haunted History Tour' of Cork City Gaol. He was William Stranford, a Spirit Guide in Luvius Theatre's 'Victims of Jack the Ripper', in the Firkin Crane. Moving onto TV and Film work, he was Counsellor Graham Cox in Fair City and a British Soldier in TG4's Ealu. In the award winning short film Cold, he played Sargeant Harte. He appeared as a Garda in the Young Offenders TV show and plays an axe wielding creature in Beyond The Woods (on DVD, Amazon, Google Play). He plays the Priest in Michael Flatleys upcoming movie 'Blackbird'.
