‘It’s not Hogwarts without you, Hagrid’: Tributes flood in for Harry Potter actor Robbie Coltrane dead at 72
: “I’ll never know anyone remotely like Robbie again. He was an incredible talent, a complete one off, and I was beyond fortunate to know him, work with him and laugh my head off with him.Who was Robbie Coltrane?
Coltrane, whose real name was Anthony Robert McMillan, was born in Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire, in 1950. Film producer Alison Owen and her husband actor Keith Allen with cast members actors Robbie Coltrane, Adrian Edmondson, Peter Richardson, Kevin Allen and Clive Russell posing around Cadillac on the set of ‘The Supergrass’ outside Pentonville Prison on Caledonian Road in London in 1985.
His career began in 1979 in the TV series Play for Today before he gained prominence in A Kick Up the Eighties, a BBC TV comedy series in which he starred alongside Tracey Ullman, Rik Mayall and Miriam Margoyles.Coltrane went on to appear in the 1983 ITV comedy Alfresco, with Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie and Siobhan Redmond.
Fry tweeted:"Such depth, power and talent: funny enough to cause helpless hiccups and honking as we made our first TV show Alfresco. Farewell, old fellow, you’ll be so dreadfully missed."
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