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Hans Gruber is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the 1988 action film Die Hard, portrayed by Alan Rickman. Gruber is a thief and criminal mastermind from East Germany who holds the Nakatomi Plaza hostage to steal $640 million in negotiable bearer bonds.
Hans Gruber was an East German terrorist planning to kill almost 30 hostages. He is the main antagonist of Die Hard and a posthumous antagonist in Die Hard with a Vengeance . He was also Simon Gruber 's younger brother.
Hans Gruber is the main antagonist of the 1988 action thriller film Die Hard and the overarching antagonist of its 1995 threequel Die Hard With a Vengeance. He is a former German terrorist leader who organized the takeover of the Los Angeles skyscraper, Nakatomi Plaza, in an attempt to steal...
He's been called the greatest action movie villain in Hollywood history: Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber, the meticulous mastermind behind the Christmas Eve Nakatomi Tower heist in 1988's Die Hard.
Hans Gruber : I am an exceptional thief, Mrs. McClane. And since I'm moving up to kidnapping, you should be more polite. Hans : The following people are to be released from their captors: In Northern Ireland, the seven members of the New Provo Front. In Canada, the five imprisoned leaders of Liberte de Quebec.
Rickman, who died Thursday at the age of 69, didn’t make Hans Gruber the first seductive Hollywood villain, but he may have been the last to fully seduce us.
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.