The Scottish actor and comic Robbie Coltrane has died, as reported by the Hollywood Reporter.
Of course, he’ll seemingly be most remembered for taking part in the pleasant large Hagrid within the Harry Potter franchise of movies, based mostly on the books of the terrible transphobic creator J.Okay. Rowling, in addition to a number of James Bond films because the Russian mob boss Valentin Zukovsky. However, Coltrane additionally appeared within the 1983 fantasy movie Krull, was in a number of of Rowan Atkinson’s Black Adder sequence, performed Mr. Hyde in Hugh Jackman’s critically-panned film Van Helsing, and appeared as a police sergeant within the 2001 adaptation of Alan Moore’s graphic novel From Hell, about Jack the Ripper.
His weirdest function may need been the voice of the enormous, dwelling teddy bear Gooby within the obscure however cult-favorite film of the identical title. Warning: Once you see this trailer, you may’t unsee it.
Coltrane has many, many different credit to his title, however extra importantly, was by all accounts an exquisite man. His former co-star Stephen Fry eulogized him thusly: “I was awe/terror/love struck all at the same time. Such depth, power & talent: funny enough to cause helpless hiccups & honking as we made our first TV show, Alfresco. Farewell, old fellow. You’ll be so dreadfully missed.”
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