British actor Robbie Coltrane, world famous for his role as Hagrid, the giant who tends the gardens and woods of Hogwarts Magic School in the films of the ‘Harry Potter’ saga, died this Friday at the age of 72, according to reports was reported by your agent. “It’s been a role that has brought joy to children and adults alike and has received a torrent of fan letters every week for the past 20 years,” the agent said in a statement quoted by the BBC.
Anthony Robert McMillan, born in Rutherglen, a suburb of Glasgow, in 1950, landed his internationally best-known role after a long career in British film and television. After appearing in several small roles, he joined the cast of the series Al Fresco in 1983, where he met other actors of his generation who would become stars, such as Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry or Emma Thompson. But the series that made him famous as a leading man in Britain was Cracker (1993), in which he played a psychologist working for Manchester Police.
In the cinema, Coltrane starred alongside the role of Hagrid Falstaff in Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V (1989) and a Russian spy who became James Bond’s assistant in two films of the super-spy saga (Goldeneye and The World Is Not Enough). ) . Coltrane, who owes his stage name to his passion for jazz musician John Coltrane, was divorced and had two children.
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