LONDON (AP) — Robbie Coltrane, the baby-faced comic and character actor whose a whole lot of roles included a crime-solving psychologist on the TV collection “Cracker” and the light half-giant Hagrid within the “Harry Potter” films, has died. He was 72.
Coltrane’s agent Belinda Wright mentioned he died Friday at a hospital in his native Scotland, and however didn’t instantly different particulars. She referred to as him “forensically intelligent” and “brilliantly witty” in simply considered one of many tributes made to him.
“Harry Potter” writer J.Okay. Rowling, who many years in the past had mentioned Coltrane was her first option to play Hagrid, tweeted Friday that he was “an incredible talent, a complete one off.”
“I was beyond fortunate to know him, work with him and laugh my head off with him,” she wrote.
Born Anthony Robert McMillan in Rutherglen, Scotland, Coltrane was in his early 20s when he started pursuing an appearing profession and renamed himself in honor of jazz musician John Coltrane.
He already had a notable display screen profession, with credit together with “Mona Lisa,” “Nuns on the Run” and Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of “Henry V” when he broke via on his personal as a hard-bitten detective in “Cracker,” the Nineteen Nineties TV collection for which he received finest actor on the British Academy Television Awards three years working.
He went on to seem in all eight “Harry Potter” film because the younger wizard’s mentor and had all kinds of different components, together with a Russian crime boss within the James Bond thrillers “GoldenEye” and “The World is Not Enough” and Pip’s guardian Mr. Jaggers in a 2012 adaptation of Dickens’ “Great Expectations.” More just lately, he acquired rave critiques for enjoying a beloved TV star who could harbor a darkish secret within the 2016 miniseries “National Treasure.”
On Friday, his “Nuns on the Run” co-star Eric Idle tweeted that he had been speaking about Coltrane, “wondering where he was,” when he realized of his demise.
“Such a bright and brilliant man. A consummate actor, an extraordinarily funny comedian and an amazing actor. He was also a very good friend,” Idle wrote.
Wright mentioned Coltrane is survived by his sister Annie Rae, his ex-wife Rhona Gemmell and his kids Spencer and Alice.
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