James Phelps, who played Fred Weasley in Harry Potter, added, “I will miss the random chats about all subjects under the sun.
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Such depth, power & talent: funny enough to cause helpless hiccups & honking as we made our first TV show, “Alfresco”. I was awe/terror/love struck all at the same time.
Stephen Fry said, “I first met Robbie Coltrane almost exactly 40 years ago. He was already fairly famous, and his trophy room well stocked, by the time Harry Potter came calling. In 1990 he starred opposite Eric Idle in Nuns on the Run, and in 1991 he played the Pope in The Pope Must Die, for which he won the Evening Standard British Film Award – Peter Sellers Award for Comedy.įrom 1993 to 1995 he played Dr Edward “Fitz” Fitzgerald on Cracker, which earned him three BAFTA Awards, and in the second half of that decade he turned in some of the most memorable performances in the James Bond franchise. In the 1970s he earned a reputation on the stages of London as a rising sketch comedy star, and he broke into film with a small part in 1980’s Flash Gordon.īy the end of that decade he was a bona fide star, appearing in Blackadder the Third, releasing the sketch and stand-up show The Robbie Coltrane Special, and appearing as perhaps Shakespeare’s funniest character, Falstaff, in Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V. He was born Anthony Robert McMillan on March 30th, 1950, and adopted the stage name Coltrane as a tribute to his favorite musician, John Coltrane. In one of the most talked-about clips, he said, “The legacy of the movies is that my children’s generation will show them to their children, so you could be watching in 50 years time, easy. Michael Gambon is the only other actor to achieve that distinction.Ĭoltrane appeared in the anniversary special Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts, which dropped on New Year’s Day this year, at a time when his health was already failing.
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He also stole scenes in the James Bond films GoldenEye (1995) and The World Is Not Enough (1999) as Russian gangster Valentin Zukovsky, and won three consecutive BAFTA Awards for best actor in the ITV crime series Cracker. Robbie Coltrane, the beloved comic actor who starred as Rubeus Hagrid in the H arry Potter film franchise, is dead at the age of 72, his agent confirmed to Deadline. Coltrane had been in poor health for about two years, and died in a hospital near his Larbert, Scotland home.Ĭoltrane featured prominently in all eight films in the Harry Potter series, serving as a bumbling but lovable father figure to the young orphan Harry.
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