Robbie Coltranefamous for playing the beloved half-giant Rubeus Hagrid in the franchise of “Harry Potter“, He died today at the age of 72. WME agency announced his death, but did not disclose the causes of death.
The Scottish actor, comedian and writer also appeared in two films by James Bond, “golden eyes” of 1995 and “The world is not enough” 1999, in the role of a Russian mobster Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky.
The son of a doctor and a pianist, Robbie was born in Rutherglen in South Lanarkshire in Scotland in 1950, and studied at Glenalmond College in Perth and Kinross, Glasgow School of Art, and Moray House College Of Education in Edinburgh. He devoted himself to acting in his twenties, taking the stage name Coltrane (in tribute to jazz saxophonist John Coltrane) and working in theater and stand-up comedies.
His skills as a comedian earned him roles in the television series The Comic Strip Presents (1982) and he was one of the stars of Laugh ??? I Almost Paid My License Fee (1984). She soon made her way to film, landing small roles in several films such as Death in Live (1980), Scrubbers (1983), Absolute Beginners (1986) and Mona Lisa (1986). On television he also appeared in Tutti Frutti (1987), as Samuel Johnson in Blackadder (1987) (a role he later played in the more serious Boswell and Johnson’s Tour of the Western Islands (1993), and in several stand-ups and sketch. .comedy show.
He co-starred with Eric Idle in Sisters on the Run (1990), and played the Pope in My Dad is the Pope (1991). He also played a self-styled private detective who believes he is Humphrey Bogart in the television comedy The Bogie Man. His roles intensified in the 1990s with the television series Cracker (1993-1996) for which he won three British Academy Television Awards for best actor consecutively, and later in successful films such as two James Bond’s GoldenEye (1995) and The World is Not Enough (1999), as well as the role of half-giant Rubeus Hagrid in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007). ) and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince , Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (although he does not appear in the long shot, but his stunt double, former English rugby player Martin Bayfield, 208cm tall). Also notable was his participation as Sergeant Peter Godley in the Hughes Brothers’ The True Story of Jack the Ripper – From Hell (2001).
Recently, Coltrane appeared in the Harry Potter 20th anniversary reunion special on HBO Max in January 2022. On that occasion, the Hagrid performer said, “The legacy of the films is that my children’s generation there will show to their children.” Then he said “For you to look at it at least in 50 years. I’m not here anymore, unfortunately, but Hagrid will live forever.”
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