LONDON (AP) — Robbie Coltrane, is a baby-faced comedian and character actor whose hundreds of roles included a crime-solving psychologist in the TV series “Cracker” and the lovable semi-giant Hagrid in the “Harry Potter” movies. “Don’t stay. He was 72 years old.
Coltrane’s agent, Belinda Wright, said he died at a hospital in his native Scotland on Friday, but did not immediately provide other details. She called him “forensically shrewd” and “brilliantly resourceful” in one of several tributes.( 72 of Robbie Coltrane, the actor who played Harry Potter’s Hagrid. died at the age of)
“Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling, who said decades ago that Coltrane was her first choice to play Hagrid, tweeted Friday that he was “an incredible talent, completely unique.”
“I was beyond lucky to meet him, work with him and laugh out loud with him,” she wrote.
Born Anthony Robert McMillan in Rutherglen, Scotland, Coltrane was in his early 20s when he began to pursue an acting career, renaming himself after jazz musician John Coltrane.( 72 of Robbie Coltrane, the actor who played Harry Potter’s Hagrid. died at the age of)
She already had a notable screen career in the 1990s, with credits including “Mona Lisa,” “Nun on the Run” and an adaptation of Kenneth Branagh’s “Henry V,” when she starred as a hardened detective in “Cracker.” I broke myself. Television series for which he won Best Actor at the British Academy Television Awards for three consecutive years. ( 72 of Robbie Coltrane, the actor who played Harry Potter’s Hagrid. died at the age of)
He appeared in all eight “Harry Potter” films as the young wizard’s mentor and had several other roles, including the James Bond thrillers “Goldeneye” and “The World Is Not Enough” and Pip’s Russian crime boss. Tutor Mr. Jaggers in the 2012 adaptation of Dickens’s “Great Expectations”. Recently, she received good reviews for playing a beloved TV star who can hide a dark secret in the 2016 miniseries “National Treasure”.
On Friday, his “Nun on the Run” co-star, Eric Idle, tweeted that when he learned of his death, he was talking about Coltrane, “wondering where he was. “
“Such a brilliant, brilliant man. A skillful actor, an exceptionally funny comedian, and an incredible actor. He was a great friend too,” Idol wrote.
Wright said Coltrane is survived by his sister Annie Rae, his ex-wife Rona Gemmell and their children, Spencer and Alice.
