Robbie Coltrane, Hagrid in the ‘Harry Potter’ Films, Dies at 72
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The veteran Scottish actor and comedian also played a gambling-addicted psychologist in the 1990s crime series “Cracker.”
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Robbie Coltrane, the veteran Scottish actor who played the beloved half-giant Rubeus Hagrid in the “Harry Potter” films
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and starred in the cult British crime series “Cracker,” died on Friday in Larbert, Scotland. He was 72.
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His death, in a hospital, was confirmed by Belinda Wright, his British agent. Ms. Wright said that Mr. Coltrane’s family had not disclosed a cause, but that he had been “unwell for some time.”
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Mr. Coltrane veered from the comic to the gritty in a 40-year career in film and television, with turns as an antihero detective in “Cracker” (1993-96),
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a K.G.B. agent turned ally to James Bond and a gangster who disguises himself as a nun after betraying his fellow criminals in “Nuns on the Run” (1990).
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But those roles did little to prepare Mr. Coltrane to play Hagrid, a fan favorite from the “Harry Potter” books whose transition to the big screen would face the sky-high expectations of millions of young readers.