Actor Robbie Coltrane, Harry Potter’s Hagrid, dies aged 72

Robbie Coltrane arrives in Trafalgar Square, central London, for the world premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, July 7, 2011. Coltrane, who Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, has died. Coltranes agent Belinda Wright said he died in a hospital in Scotland on Friday. He was 72 years old. Dossier Jonathan Short/Associated Press

LONDON Robbie Coltrane, the baby-faced comedian and actor whose hundreds of roles included a crime-solving psychologist in the TV series Cracker and the kindly half-giant Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, has died. He was 72 years old.

Coltranes agent Belinda Wright said he died in a hospital in his native Scotland on Friday and did not immediately provide further details. She called him a forensic smart and a brilliant mind in one of the many tributes given to him.

Harry Potter author JK Rowling, who decades ago declared Coltrane his first choice to play Hagrid, tweeted on Friday that he was an incredible talent, a complete one.

I was more fortunate to know him, to work with him and to laugh with him, she wrote.

Born Anthony Robert McMillan in Rutherglen, Scotland, Coltrane was in his early twenties when he began pursuing an acting career and renamed himself after jazz musician John Coltrane.

He’s already had a stellar screen career, with credits including Mona Lisa, Nuns on the Run and Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of Henry V when he broke through on his own as a hardened detective in Cracker, the series. television of the 1990s for which he won the best award. actor at the British Academy Television Awards three years in a row.

He went on to appear in all eight Harry Potter films as a mentor to young wizards and had a wide variety of other roles, including a Russian crime boss in the James Bond thrillers GoldenEye and The World Is Not Enough and Pips’ keeper Mr. 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.

On Friday, his Nuns on the Run co-star Eric Idle tweeted that he was talking about Coltrane, wondering where he was when he learned of his death.

Such a bright, brilliant man. An accomplished actor, an extraordinarily funny comedian and an incredible actor. He was also a very good friend, wrote Idle.

Wright said Coltrane is survived by his sister Annie Rae, his ex-wife Rhona Gemmell and his children Spencer and Alice.

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