Robbie Coltrane, Hagrid in ‘Harry Potter’ movies, useless at 72
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Robbie Coltrane, the actor who dropped at life the lovable gamekeeper Hagrid within the Harry Potter movie franchise, died on Friday, in line with his agent, Scott Henderson. He was 72.
The Scottish-born actor’s different credit included the British collection “Cracker” and James Bond movies “GoldenEye” and “The World Is Not Enough.”
No particulars on the reason for demise had been instantly supplied.
Before Coltrane shot to worldwide fame enjoying the bearded Hagrid, he was honed his comedic abilities on the theatre stage.
In the ’80s, he appeared in a short-lived sketch collection referred to as “Alfresco” alongside powerhouses Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry and Emma Thompson.
On Friday, Fry honored his former co-star in a statement posted to Twitter.
“I first met Robbie Coltrane nearly precisely 40 years in the past. I used to be awe/terror/love struck all on the identical time. Such depth, energy & expertise: humorous sufficient to trigger helpless hiccups & honking as we made our first TV present, ‘Alfresco,’” he wrote. “Farewell, previous fellow.
Coltrane reunited with Thompson on the six-part drama collection “Tutti Frutti,” for which he earned his first finest actor British Academy Television Award nomination.
His first win could be for the tv collection “Cracker” within the ’90s. That collection, against the law drama, ran for 3 seasons from 1993-95, with two subsequent specials.
The function of Hagrid, a half-giant, half-human character, was a pure one for Coltrane. He knew and cherished the books as a result of he learn them to his kids, he recalled in a single interview.
“If you’re an actor, you need to do the voices. The kids anticipate it. No monotones allowed,” he joked.
But it was his efficiency, which introduced coronary heart and humanity to the function — a literal light half-giant — that caught with audiences.
Appearing within the HBO Max particular “Harry Potter twentieth Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts,” Coltrane recalled his time on the movies and Hagrid’s influence.
“Everybody on this planet would really like a very large, large, sturdy, good man on their aspect, easy as that. That’s the attraction of Superman and this stuff,” he stated. “Hagrid was all the time clearly the great man, wasn’t he?”
Coltrane is survived by his kids, Spencer and Alice; their mom, Rhona Gemmell and his sister Annie Rae, in line with a press release from his UK agent, Belinda Wright.