His first screen credit was Waterloo Sunset, the Richard Eyre-directed Play for Today in 1979, in which he played opposite Queenie Watts’s care-home escapee.
The actor who played the role of Hagrid in Harry Potter is no more. Robbie Coltrane died at the age of 72. He passed away in a hospital near Falkirk in Scotland.
His death was confirmed by his agent Belinda Wright. « For me personally I shall remember him as an abidingly loyal client. As well as being a wonderful actor, he was forensically intelligent, brilliantly witty and after 40 years of being proud to be called his agent, I shall miss him, » she said.
