Hagrid's actor in the Harry Potter film, Robbie Coltrane, dies
Hagrid's actor in the Harry Potter film, Robbie Coltrane, dies
Robbie Coltrane dies at the age of 72 on Friday (10/14/2022)
Legendary picture of Robbie Coltrane as Hagrid with Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire :
Robbie Coltrane, who played Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter film franchise, died at the age of 72 on Friday (October 10th 2022) local time.
This sad news was confirmed by his agent in England, Belinda Wright, as reported by The New York Times (October 10th 2022).
Wright said Robbie died at a hospital in Larbert, Scotland. However, the family did not reveal the cause of death and only said that Coltrane had been unwell for some time.
Quoted from IMDB, Robbie Coltrane is a veteran actor born in Scotland on March 30, 1950.
A span of four decades of a career on the big screen, Robbie Coltrane has played various characters.
However, his figure is closely related to a man with big stature, beard, and long disheveled hair in the eight film adaptations of J.K.'s Harry Potter novels.
Rowling. Here's the profile of Robbie Coltrane, the half-human and half-giant character of Rubeus Hagrid in Harry Potter: Scotland.
He has loved art, music and film since he was young.
His love for art cannot be separated from the role of his mother, Jean Ross (Howie), who is a pianist.
Not only art, Coltrane also likes to read medicine books belonging to his father who is a surgeon, Ian Baxter McMillan.
Robbie Coltrane made his on-stage acting debut at Glenalmond College, Scotland, at the age of 12.
In 1973, he made a documentary entitled "Young Mental Health" and was selected as Film of the Year by the Scottish Board of Education.
From then on, he began using the name Coltrane and began a career as a stand-up comedy at nightclubs in Edinburgh.
Coltrane name itself because of his love of jazz music.
In 1980, Coltrane made his debut on television as a Border Guard in the BBC mini-series The Lost Tribe, then made his big screen debut as a limousine driver on Death Watch.
In 1981, he appeared in his first leading role as Detective Fritz Langley in director Amos Poe's Subway Riders.
Robbie Coltrane's name became known through appearances in the series The Comic Strip and Alfresco (1983), Comic Strip The Supergrass (1985), and The Pope Must Diet (1991).
His figure is better known to the public when he played criminal psychologist Dr Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald in the Cracker series which aired from 1993 to 2006.
Thanks to his role, Coltrane managed to win the best television actor award at the BAFTA event three times in a row.
Dr. Edward Fitzgerald also led him to star in two James Bond films, namely the figure of Valentin Zukovsky in GoldenEye (1995) and The World Is Not Enough (1999).
The figure of Rubeus Hagrid Reported from Vanity Fair, J.K. Rowling says that Robbie Coltrane tops the list as an actor for playing Rubeus Hagrid in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001).
"Robbie is a perfect fit for Hagrid because Hagrid is a very fun character, quite fun, quite funny," he said.
Robbie's role as Rubeus Hagrid then continued until the last film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011).
Hagrid himself is a character who is described as being twice as tall as the average person and very fond of animals and supernatural beings.
The death of Robbie Coltrane does not necessarily make his figure dim.
The character of Hagrid, an animal lover and supervisor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, remains etched in the Potterheads' memory, as Harry Potter fans are called.
As in the January 2022 documentary Return to Hogwarts, the actor said that Hagrid would still be there even though he was gone.
"The legacy of the film, my children's generation will show it to their children.
So you can watch it in 50 years' time. I won't be here unfortunately, but Hagrid will (still there)," said Robbie Coltrane.
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