Robbie coltrane

The fat boy from Rutherglen also had a splendidly eviscerating wit, useful for rebuffing questions premised on his girth. Once, he was telling an interviewer how he was trying to raise money for a film about Laurel and Hardy. Who would you play, his interlocutor asked? “I’d be playing the wee one with the funny hair, like yourself,” snapped back Coltrane. Coltrane as Fitz in ITV’s Cracker, 2006. Photograph: ITV/Rex/Shutterstock It was easy to confuse the big man with his big roles. In the 1990s ITV crime drama Cracker, scripted by Jimmy McGovern, for which Coltrane won the best actor Bafta three years in succession, he played Dr Eddie “Fitz” Fitzgerald, an obese, alcoholic, foul-mouthed, sarcastic, yet cerebral criminal psychologist. “I drink too much, I smoke too much, I gamble too much. I am too much,” Coltrane’s Fitz shouted in one episode. That self-description seemed to fit actor as much as character. True, smoking and gambling were not Coltrane’s vices, but alcohol was: “Booze is my undoing,” he said once. “I can drink a gallon of beer and not feel the least bit drunk.” And Coltrane was regularly written up as just too much, dominating conversations with anecdotes and funny voices rather than listening. There could also be too little of the big man. When, for instance, he fulfilled his manifest destiny and played the boozy, libidinous, life force Falstaff in Kenneth Branagh’s 1989 film of He could also erase himself exasperatingly: once in 2012, after disclosing to a...

Born Anthony Robert McMillan in the prosperous Glaswegian suburb of Rutherglen, Coltrane was educated at Glenalmond College, an independent boarding school whose corporal punishment he described as “legalised violence”, before going to the Glasgow School of Art. He had second thoughts about his ability as a painter, and switched to live performance, acting in radical theatre companies (including a troupe from San Quentin State prison) and doing standup, taking the pseudonym Coltrane as homage to celebrated jazz musician John Coltrane. Read more His first screen credit was Waterloo Sunset, the Richard Eyre-directed Play for Today in 1979, in which he played opposite Queenie Watts’s care-home escapee. Thereafter, he had small appearances in films and TV shows, including Flash Gordon, Are You Being Served?, Krull and Britannia Hospital, his distinctive appearance and sheer size helping him stand out from the crowd. Coltrane’s comedy skills began to take precedence, as he found success in the early 1980s in TV sketch shows such as Alfresco and A Kick Up the Eighties. These placed him firmly in the school of 80s alternative comedy alongside Ben Elton, Emma Thompson and Rik Mayall – an identity reinforced by his regular participation in Comic Strip Presents films including such key entries as Five Go Mad in Dorset, The Beat Generation and The Bullshitters. Read more However, Coltrane’s abilities as an actor were increasingly in evidence, and he had considerable success in 1987 w...

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(Image credit: Warner Bros.) The Harry Potter Movies (2001 - 2011) One of the most successful film franchises of the 21st Century, Harry Potter movies told the story of “The Boy Who Lived” as he rose from an unwanted orphan living beneath his aunt and uncle’s stairs to the only person powerful enough to destroy “He Who Shall Not Be Named.” But Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) had some help along the way from countless friends, teachers, It’s hard to imagine the Harry Potter movies without Robbie Coltrane’s Rubeus Hagrid, as the kind and gentle half-giant and half-human was one of the Hogwarts students’ biggest allies who was always there to lend a hand or piece of advice. And to the younger generations, Coltrane is surely most remembered by his Wizarding World character. (Image credit: Cannon Screen Entertainment) Mona Lisa (1986) Released in 1986, Neil Jordan’s crime drama, Mona Lisa, centers on a recently paroled gangster named George ( Robbie Coltrane is seen throughout the movie as Thomas, George’s longtime friend who runs a modest garage instead of working in London’s criminal underworld. Though not the main character and not really connected to the main struggle, Coltrane’s “everyman” character is a delight and is made better thanks to the late actor’s innate likability. Stream Mona Lisa on HBO Max. (Image credit: BBC) Blackadder The Third (1987) Between 1983 and 1989, the BBC period comedy series, Blackadder, told four different stories that focused on different hist...

• • • • Robbie Coltrane’s causes of death reveal the Harry Potter star suffered painful health problems leading up to his passing at the age of 72. TheBritish acting legend diedfrom a number of conditions including multiple organ failure, his death certificate has shown. It’s understood the Harry Potter star had been unwell for some time and battled diabetes and obesity, reports Coltrane – who passed away on October 14 – died of sepsis, lower respiratory tract infection and heart block, according to reporting by Sepsis occurs when an infection triggers an extreme reaction in the body while heart block is when the electrical pulses that control your heart are either delayed or blocked. Coltrane, who was born Anthony Robert McMillan but changed his name in the 1970s in tribute to the jazz legend John Coltrane – had his death registered by his former wife and pilates instructor Rhona Gemmell. Coltrane was a veteran Scottish actor who starred in different films during his stellar career. Robbie Coltrane with Harry Potter co-stars Rupert Grint, Daniel Redcliffe and Emma Watson. PA Images via Getty Images He was most well-known for his role as Hagrid in Harry Potter. He was also popularly known for starring as Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky in the James Bond films, The World Is Not Enoughand GoldenEye. He also starred in the BBC miniseries, Tutti Fruttiin 1987. He featured prominently in the TV series, Cracker, where he starred as Dr. Eddie Fitzgerald, which aired between 1993 and...