Actor Robbie Coltrane, who performed Harry Potter's Hagrid, dies at the age of 72
Robbie Coltrane, the child-faced comic actor with numerous roles as the crime-solving psychologist in the TV series
"Crackers" as well as the mild-mannered half-grown Hagrid in the "Harry Potter" films has died. He becomes 72.
Coltrane's agent Belinda Wright stated he died Friday at a clinic in his local Scotland,
and however, did now no longer straight away provide different details.
She referred to as him "forensically intelligent" and "brilliantly witty" in only
certainly considered one among many tributes made to him.
Harry Potter" creator J.K. Rowling, who a long time in the past had stated Coltrane
become her first desire to play Hagrid, tweeted Friday that he becomes "a notable talent, a whole one-off.
I become past lucky to understand him,
paintings with him and snort my head off with him," she wrote.
Born Anthony Robert McMillan in Rutherglen, Scotland,
Coltrane become in his early 20s while he started pursuing an appearing profession
and renamed himself in honor of jazz musician John Coltrane.
He already had an extremely good display screen profession,
with credit along with "Mona Lisa," "Nuns at the Run" and Kenneth Branagh's version of "Henry V"
for which he received pleasant actor at the British Academy Television Awards 3 years running.
He went directly to seem in all eight "Harry Potter" films because the younger wizard's
mentor and had an extensive form of different parts, along with a Russian crime boss within side
the James Bond thrillers "Golden Eye" and "The World is Not Enough" and Pip's parent Mr.
Jaggers in a 2012 version of Dickens's "Great Expectations." More recently,
he obtained rave evaluations for gambling with a cherished TV famous
person who might also additionally harbor a darkish mystery within side the 2016 miniseries "National Treasure.