Robbie Coltrane

Venerable Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane, best known as the dragon-loving half-giant Hagrid from the "Harry Potter" film franchise, died on Friday, his.

[said in statement](https://twitter.com/007/status/1580983058471088128). They worked together on the British sketch comedy show "Alfresco," which also included Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson. Such depth, power & talent," Fry [said in a statement](https://twitter.com/stephenfry/status/1580965904854134788). I shall miss him very much." Coltrane also won rave reviews for another dark role, in the 2016 British mini-series "National Treasure." "We shall miss him as a dear friend. “For me personally I shall remember him as an abidingly loyal client," Wright said in statement. [Idle said in a statement](https://twitter.com/EricIdle/status/1580966455100682251). He was an incredible actor and a lovely man.” "He was also a very good friend. [she said in statement](https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1580974122888089601).

From early comedy in Tutti Frutti to damaged psychologist Fitz, via Hagrid, Falstaff, Blackadder and finally National Treasure's complex, hard-to-hate lead, ...

This was John Byrne’s Boswell & Johnson’s Tour of the Western Isles, with John Sessions playing the florid literary careerist Boswell and Coltrane – intriguingly – playing the great Englishman, and an Englishman with no very natural love of the Scottish at that. Robbie Coltrane was a big man in every sense, a physical one-off, not easily absorbed into the typecast world of movies and drama, understandably reluctant to get too associated with Cracker’s Fitz, but good-humouredly content to become a much-loved figure for legions of young Potter fans. Coltrane presented a different figure: gaunt, frail, walking with a limp – his face a mask of disdain and incomprehension. But it was Harry Potter who put Coltrane in the premier league of pop culture in the 21st century: his image was one of the most recognisable in the merchandising, like Gandalf’s forgotten younger stepbrother. Coltrane was sleek in the role, worldly and cynical, a man whose impassive expression twitches marginally as he hears the click of Bond’s gun pointed to the back of his head, and he murmurs: “Walther PPK, 7.65 millimetre, only three men I know use such a gun. This giant of a man appeared like a new kind of Goliath, a Goliath who was on David’s side …

The Scottish actor played gentle half-giant Hagrid, a mentor to the boy wizard, in all eight Harry Potter films, released between 2001 and 2011.

He was also a very good friend," Idle wrote. Rowling, who decades ago had said Coltrane was her first choice to play Hagrid, tweeted Friday that he was "an incredible talent, a complete one off." Coltrane's agent Belinda Wright said he died Friday at a hospital in his native Scotland, and but did not immediately offer other details.

The Scottish actor and comedian Robbie Coltrane has died, as reported by the Hollywood Reporter.Of course, he will likely be most remembered for.

However, Coltrane also appeared in the 1983 fantasy film Krull, was in several of Rowan Atkinson’s Black Adder series, played Mr. [Marvel](https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2022/10/marvel-release-dates-when-to-see-upcoming-mcu-movies-disney-shows/) and [Star Wars](https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2022/02/star-wars-release-dates-when-to-see-upcoming-star-wars-movies-disney-shows/) releases, what’s next for the [DC Universe on film and TV](https://gizmodo.com/warner-bros-dc-release-dates-hbo-max-cast-details-1848354161), and everything you need to know about [House of the Dragon](https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2021/10/house-of-the-dragon-everything-we-know/) and [Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power](https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2022/02/everything-we-know-about-the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power/). Hyde in Hugh Jackman’s critically-panned movie Van Helsing, and appeared as a police sergeant in the 2001 adaptation of Alan Moore’s graphic novel From Hell, about Jack the Ripper. [eulogized him thusly](https://twitter.com/stephenfry/status/1580965904854134788): “I was awe/terror/love struck all at the same time. [James Bond](https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2022/10/the-future-of-james-bond-is-in-his-mid-30s/) movies as the Russian mob boss Valentin Zukovsky. [the Hollywood Reporter](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/robbie-coltrane-dead-hagrid-harry-potter-movie-cracker-actor-1235241552/).

Scottish actor who graduated from the alternative comedy scene to become a major performer known for taking on complex and difficult roles.

He also indulged his interest in vintage cars in the 1997 series Coltrane’s Planes and Automobiles. Coltrane won the best TV actor Bafta in 1994, 1995 and 1996 for the role. However, Coltrane’s abilities as an actor were increasingly in evidence, and he had considerable success in 1987 with Tutti Frutti, the John Byrne-scripted, Bafta-winning TV series about a washed-up Scottish rock’n’roll band. These placed him firmly in the school of 80s alternative comedy alongside Ben Elton, Emma Thompson and Rik Mayall – an identity reinforced by his regular participation in Comic Strip Presents films including such key entries as Five Go Mad in Dorset, The Beat Generation and The Bullshitters. Born Anthony Robert McMillan in the prosperous Glaswegian suburb of Rutherglen, Coltrane was educated at Glenalmond College, an independent boarding school whose corporal punishment he described as “legalised violence”, before going to the Glasgow School of Art. Coltrane’s comedy skills began to take precedence, as he found success in the early 1980s in TV sketch shows such as Alfresco and A Kick Up the Eighties.

Robbie Coltrane, the larger-than-life Scottish-born actor who played Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, has died at the age of 72, his agent said on Friday.

He was a gifted comic actor and a star of Britain's 1980s alternative comedy boom, playing a string of television roles that included regular appearances in "The Comic Strip Presents ..." In 1987, he rose to greater prominence starring alongside Emma Thompson in John Byrne's mini-series "Tutti Frutti" as doomed lead singer Big Jazza McGlone in a tale of fictional Scots rock 'n' roll band The Majestics. Such depth, power & talent: funny enough to cause helpless hiccups & honking as we made our first TV show, "Alfresco". You'll be so dreadfully missed". "I was awe/terror/love struck all at the same time. I send my love and deepest condolences to his family, above all his children."

Robbie Coltrane — famous for his role as Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter movies — has died. He was 72.

“He will probably be best remembered for decades to come as Hagrid in the Harry Potter films,” his agent Wright told The Post. “A role which brought joy to children and adults alike all over the world prompting a stream of fan letters every week for over 20 years. “He was an incredible talent, a complete one off, and I was beyond fortunate to know him, work with him and laugh my head off with him. The role earned him three BAFTA Awards for Best Actor. He was an incredible actor and a lovely man,” Radcliffe added. Edward ‘Fitz’ Fitzgerald in the TV murder drama Cracker.

Coltrane appeared in all eight Harry Potter films as the gregarious giant Hagrid, a character beloved for his warmth and humor.

He also played Falstaff in the 1989 Shakespearean film adaptation of Henry V, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh (Professor Gilderoy Lockhart) as well as Thompson. He won three consecutive BAFTA awards for his role as the foul-mouthed and slobby Manchester criminal psychologist Edward “Fitz” Fitzgerald on ITV drama series Cracker (1993–1996, plus a 2006 special episode). “And I still do,” he told the [Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/nov/09/robbie-coltrane-interview-great-expectations) in 2012. "Robbie was one of the funniest people I’ve met and used to keep us laughing constantly as kids on the set," Radcliffe said in his statement after Coltrane's death. Rowling personally suggested him](https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/09/movies/the-new-season-film-harry-and-the-hobbit-wizardry-in-the-timing.html?searchResultPosition=52) to director Chris Columbus for the part of Hogwarts groundskeeper Rubeus Hagrid, who was born to a giant and a wizard and acts as a friend and protector to the titular protagonist (played by Radcliffe) and his friends. “I can walk down the street, and the hardest man in Glasgow would say, 'All right, big guy?’” Coltrane appeared in all eight Harry Potter films, which took more than a decade to film and release. Previously best known for playing gangsters and thugs, Coltrane suddenly had a legion of young fans around the world. “He was such a kid. In a fantasy series scattered with increasingly menacing villains, Coltrane’s Hagrid was a reliably bright presence. "He was an incredible actor and a lovely man." But his appearance in that first film, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001), catapulted him to a new level of international celebrity.

Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane, who played a crime-solving psychologist on TV series “Cracker” and the half-giant Hagrid in the “Harry Potter” movies, ...

Coltrane gained rave reviews for playing a beloved TV star who may harbor a dark secret in the 2016 miniseries “National Treasure.” Other roles include a Russian crime boss in the James Bond thrillers “GoldenEye” and “The World is Not Enough.” LONDON (AP) — Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane, who played a crime-solving psychologist on TV series “Cracker” and the half-giant Hagrid in the “Harry Potter” movies, has died.

Harry Potter author JK Rowling leads tributes for the Scottish actor, whose four-decade career included roles in two James Bond films and the 1990s British ...

"I was awe/terror/love struck all at the same time. and after 40 years of being proud to be called his agent, I shall miss him," she said. I send my love and deepest condolences to his family, above all his children." You'll be so dreadfully missed." He was a gifted comic actor and a star of Britain's 1980s alternative comedy boom, playing a string of television roles that included regular appearances in The Comic Strip Presents... Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe said Coltrane was "one of the funniest people I've met".

Robbie Coltrane's more than four decades-long career included roles in two James Bond films and as the lead in the 1990s British TV series Cracker, ...

He was a gifted comic actor and a star of Britain's 1980s alternative comedy boom, playing a string of television roles that included regular appearances in "The Comic Strip Presents ..." You'll be so dreadfully missed". Such depth, power & talent: funny enough to cause helpless hiccups & honking as we made our first TV show, "Alfresco". In 1987, he rose to greater prominence starring alongside Emma Thompson in John Byrne's mini-series Tutti Frutti as doomed lead singer Big Jazza McGlone in a tale of fictional Scots rock 'n' roll band The Majestics. "I was awe/terror/love struck all at the same time. I send my love and deepest condolences to his family, above all his children."

Robbie Coltrane, the larger-than-life Scottish actor who played the beloved half-giant Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, has...

You'll be so dreadfully missed". Such depth, power & talent: funny enough to cause helpless hiccups & honking as we made our first TV show, "Alfresco". I send my love and deepest condolences to his family, above all his children." "I was awe/terror/love struck all at the same time. "As well as being a wonderful actor, he was forensically intelligent..., brilliantly witty ..., and after 40 years of being proud to be called his agent, I shall miss him," she said in a statement. "For me personally, I shall remember him as an abidingly loyal client as well as being a wonderful actor, he was forensically intelligent, brilliantly witty and after 40 years of being proud to be to called his agent, I shall miss him."

The Scottish actor, best known for his role as the gentle half-giant Hagrid in the Harry Potter movies, has died.

A consummate actor, an extraordinarily funny comedian and an amazing actor. More recently, he received rave reviews for playing a beloved TV star who may harbor a dark secret in the 2016 miniseries National Treasure. Coltrane’s agent Belinda Wright said he died Friday at a hospital in his native Scotland, and did not immediately offer other details.

The 'Harry Potter' and 'James Bond' acting icon, who suffered osteoarthritis and died on Friday (14.10.22) aged 72, opened up in 2020 about his long health ...

For whole generations of moviegoers, Robbie Coltrane will always be Rubeus Hagrid. As the hulking and kindly gamekeeper of the Harry Potter movies, Coltrane ...

Of course, Matsui had been hired by The Night Fox to do exactly that in a complex set-up but it was still memorable. The show itself won Best Drama in 1995 and 1996. From 1993 to 1995, he played the gruff, alcoholic and chain-smoking Fitz, a criminal psychologist with a prodigious talent for deduction. His character must choose a side in the escalating conflict and thwart Elektra’s plan. But it’s his death scene – and his final action – which cements Zukovsky (and Coltrane) in the legacy of Bond’s adventures. He was useful, but could Bond trust him?

Robbie Coltrane's career began long before the first Harry Potter movie premiered in 2001, but for the generation that grew up with the films and the books, ...

Thank you Robbie for bringing this character to life," So you could be watching it in 50 years' time, easy," Coltrane said. You made it a joy to be Hermione." [Felton wrote on Instagram.](https://www.instagram.com/p/CjtRfQgLu7a/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link) "And made them laugh. "Hagrid represented the concept of unconditional love. "Robbie, if I ever get to be so kind as you were to me on a film set I promise I'll do it in your name and memory.

The young stars of the Harry Potter films remember the actor who played Hagrid, as well as countless other roles during his 40-year career, describing him ...

"He was a big friendly giant on screen but even more so in real life. "I had just been talking about him with friends, wondering where he was... But Hagrid will," Coltrane said. "Robbie always treated me and my fellow cast mates when we were wee kids like equal professionals on a film set. I shall miss him very much. I'll not be here sadly.

Alongside Mr. Bean actor Rowan Atkinson and Hugh Laurie, he played the English author and lexicographer Samuel Johnson in the television comedy series ...

However, he will be most known to the world as Rubeus Hagrid, the half-giant, half-human gamekeeper and Keeper of the Keys and Grounds of Hogwarts School in the Harry Potter movie series. Bean actor Rowan Atkinson and Hugh Laurie, he played the English author and lexicographer Samuel Johnson in the television comedy series Blackadder the Third (House). Robbie Coltrane also co-starred with Pierce Brosnan as a former KGB agent turned Russian mafia lord in two James Bond movies, Goldeneye (1995) and The World Is Not Enough (1999).

Tributes have poured in for actor Robbie Coltrane, who has died at the age of 72. Miriam Margolyes described her former Harry Potter co-star, ...

Coltrane's agent Belinda Wright added in her statement: "For me personally I shall remember him as an abidingly loyal client. [Richard Coles added](https://twitter.com/RevRichardColes/status/1580971566552129536): "Very sorry to hear Robbie Coltrane has died. We shared a dressing room once and he had the biggest pants I have ever seen, which he wore with tremendous flair. He was also well known for his roles in TV show Cracker and James Bond Films Goldeneye and The World is Not Enough. Fellow Alfresco actor Hugh Laurie, who also starred alongside Coltrane in sitcom Blackadder, recalled their time spent sharing car rides between Manchester and London. She told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "It's just such a waste to think of all that talent, that fire.

The veteran Scottish actor and comedian also played a gambling-addicted psychologist in the 1990s crime series “Cracker.”

The first film, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” opened in November 2001 and grossed Coltrane was an established figure in television and film when he attracted international attention for his role as Hagrid in the “Harry Potter” film series. Coltrane’s family had not disclosed a cause of death, but that he had been “unwell for some time.”

Friends remember the Scottish actor, best known for playing Hagrid in Harry Potter, who died on Friday at the age of 72.

“I clearly remember when I went to talk to him about playing Fitz and all the while he talked to me he was taking a carburettor apart. And he was courageous enough to bring it all to the screen.” “He was a great mechanic too and I wouldn’t like that side of him to be forgotten,” he said. “I remember sleeping on the beach together in France, and then I went on holiday to Spain with Robbie and Keith Allen. I also loved him in our 1984 film, Gino, where he played Max, a guy who was having a breakdown while driving around in his jaguar and drinking. The director and comic actor Peter Richardson, a leading creative force behind the Comic Strip films in which Coltrane first appeared, praised the range of his late friend’s talent: “Everything was big about Robbie.