Hagrid actor

The Scottish actor played gentle half-giant Hagrid, a mentor to the boy wizard, in all eight Harry Potter films, released between 2001 and 2011.

He was also a very good friend," Idle wrote. Rowling, who decades ago had said Coltrane was her first choice to play Hagrid, tweeted Friday that he was "an incredible talent, a complete one off." Coltrane's agent Belinda Wright said he died Friday at a hospital in his native Scotland, and but did not immediately offer other details.

Venerable Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane, best known as the dragon-loving half-giant Hagrid from the "Harry Potter" film franchise, died on Friday, his.

[said in statement](https://twitter.com/007/status/1580983058471088128). They worked together on the British sketch comedy show "Alfresco," which also included Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson. Such depth, power & talent," Fry [said in a statement](https://twitter.com/stephenfry/status/1580965904854134788). I shall miss him very much." Coltrane also won rave reviews for another dark role, in the 2016 British mini-series "National Treasure." "We shall miss him as a dear friend. “For me personally I shall remember him as an abidingly loyal client," Wright said in statement. [Idle said in a statement](https://twitter.com/EricIdle/status/1580966455100682251). He was an incredible actor and a lovely man.” "He was also a very good friend. [she said in statement](https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1580974122888089601).

Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane, who played a forensic psychologist on TV series “Cracker” and Hagrid in the “Harry Potter” movies, has died.

Jaggers in a 2012 adaptation of Dickens’ “Great Expectations.” More recently, he received rave reviews for playing a beloved TV star who may harbor a dark secret in the 2016 miniseries “National Treasure.” A consummate actor, an extraordinarily funny comedian and an amazing actor. “Harry Potter” author J.K.

'Harry Potter' actor Robbie Coltrane died Friday at the Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert, Scotland. No cause of death has been revealed.

In 2001, he debuted as Rubeus Hagrid in the film adaptation of Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” A husky, half-giant wizard, Hagrid brought Radcliffe’s titular character to the magical world of Hogwarts. The actor also voiced Hagrid in non-film “Harry Potter” projects in recent years. When he wrapped his final scene, [he said ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pudHrUqy2I0)it marked “an end of an era.” I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee.” In 1987, he appeared in the drama series “Tutti Frutti” as rocker Danny “Big Jazza” McGlone. His first appearance in the book-turned-film series was in 2001’s “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” His additional television and film credits include starring roles in British series “Cracker,” “The Comic Strip Presents” and “Tutti Frutti” and in James Bond movies “Goldeneye” and “The World is Not Enough.” Television comedies became Coltrane’s stomping ground, as he racked up additional credits in the sketch comedies “Alfresco” and “Laugh??? Among his early gigs was the “Comic Strip Presents” series, which also featured Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie. Coltrane and Gemmell married in 1999. He pursued his passion for the arts at the Glasgow Art School, where he studied drawing, painting and film. He was an incredible actor and a lovely man.” Coltrane, né Anthony Robert McMillan, was born on March 30, 1950, in the Rutherglen suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. [“Harry Potter” franchise](https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-potter-casts-spell-20170626-story.html), based on the books by J.K.

Robbie Coltrane, who played Hagrid in "Harry Potter" franchise, dies at 72.

Most recently, Coltrane appeared with his “Harry Potter” family on the “Return to Hogwarts” 20th anniversary special released on HBO Max in January 2022. One of his first major appearances was on the British sketch comedy series “Alfresco” in 1983. A towering figure but a softie at heart, Hagrid had a sweet spot for ferocious beasts and cared for some of the “Harry Potter” world’s most ferocious, and iconic, creatures.

The veteran Scottish actor and comedian also played a gambling-addicted psychologist in the 1990s crime series “Cracker.”

The first film, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” opened in November 2001 and grossed Coltrane was an established figure in television and film when he attracted international attention for his role as Hagrid in the “Harry Potter” film series. Coltrane’s family had not disclosed a cause of death, but that he had been “unwell for some time.”

Alongside Mr. Bean actor Rowan Atkinson and Hugh Laurie, he played the English author and lexicographer Samuel Johnson in the television comedy series ...

However, he will be most known to the world as Rubeus Hagrid, the half-giant, half-human gamekeeper and Keeper of the Keys and Grounds of Hogwarts School in the Harry Potter movie series. Bean actor Rowan Atkinson and Hugh Laurie, he played the English author and lexicographer Samuel Johnson in the television comedy series Blackadder the Third (House). Robbie Coltrane also co-starred with Pierce Brosnan as a former KGB agent turned Russian mafia lord in two James Bond movies, Goldeneye (1995) and The World Is Not Enough (1999).