Alan Rickman, the legendary actor best known ... BAFTA-winning role as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991). However, for the younger generation, he'll be best ...

Mel Brooks, rather wickedly, did a satirical take-off of the story in Robin Hood: Men In Tights, but it must have been hard to push it further into self-caricature than Alan Rickman does.

I mean, I was gutted. Then I was furious," he said. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves starred Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman and Alan Rickman. Mr Reynolds first came across the Hadrian's Wall site when ...