#including robbie coltrane (hagrid)

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REST IN PEACE: DAME MAGGIE SMITH (1934 - 2024)

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Anthony Robert McMillan was born on March 30th, 1950 in Rutherglen, we knew him better as Robbie Coltrane.

Robbie was educated at Glenalmond College, an independent school in Perthshire, from which he was nearly expelled after hanging the prefects' gowns from the school clocktower. Though he later described his experiences there as deeply unhappy, he played for the rugby First XV, was head of the school's debating society and won prizes for his art.

From Glenalmond, Coltrane went on to Glasgow School of Art, where he was ridiculed for "having an accent like Prince Charles" (of which he quickly disposed, though not before gaining the nickname "Lord Fauntleroy"), and thereafter the Moray House College of Education (part of the University of Edinburgh) in Edinburgh.

In the early 70's Robbie took the name Coltrane, due to his love of jazz musician John Coltrane, and began a career of a stand-up comedian at night clubs, at the Edinburgh Festival, as well as an actor with Edinburgh's renowned Traverse Theatre.

After picking up a few bit parts in films and TV series I first remember Robbie appearing in the BBC Scotland comedy sketch series A kick up the Eighties, he went on from there to appear in The Comic Strip Presents films during the 80's The Supergrass and The Pope must die being the most successful. At that time Coltrane had a drinking problem, downing as much as a bottle of whisky a day. In 1986 he flew to a clinic in Mexico and was treated for obesity. In 1987 his partner for 15 years, Robin Paine, left him for good. A year later he met Rhona Gemmell in a pub. They married and had a son, Spencer, and a daughter, Alice. His career took off during the early 1990s with the leading role as Dr. Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald, a forensic psychologist, in the popular TV series Cracker.

Coltrane is one of only a few to have played "baddies" in 2 Bond films, playing Russian mafia man Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky in GoldenEye and The World Is Not Enough. He went on to play Rubeus Hagrid in seven Harry Potter films.

Robbie has also featured in factual TV series, Coltrane's Planes and Automobiles, as well as a host of other TV series, none of which, surprisingly are Taggart! He was voted No. 11 in ITV's TV's 50 Greatest Stars and sixth in a poll of 2000 adults across the UK to find the 'most famous Scot', behind the Loch Ness Monster, Robert Burns, Sean Connery, Robert the Bruce and William Wallace.

Robbie passed away on October 14th 2022, he had become a virtual recluse, living a a rented converted barn near Stirling, living off takeaways from a local Chinese. Coltrane was cremated and his family spread his ashes around several of his favourite places around Manhattan, New York.

His death certificate shows that the actor died from a string of conditions including multiple organ failure, the causes of death given were sepsis, where an infection triggers an extreme reaction throughout the body, lower respiratory tract infection and heart block.

I always loved Robbie, from his early days right through his career, it's sad when the people you grew up laughing at and enjoyed in folms and TV pass away.............Rest in Peace big man.

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Harry Potter is Being Rebooted

HBO just confirmed a Harry Potter reboot in the form of a ten-year long tv show... and I hate it.

Why would you adapt something for the second time when you can do something new? Something on the Marauders, or founders, or Ilvermorny, or Tom Riddle, expand the world. It hasn't been nearly long enough to warrant a reboot. For years, Harry's story has been set and safe, now it's not anymore. I know adaptations have colored my feelings on the source material before just because I could always feel the disappointment in the back of my mind (note: Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children). I love HP, it was everything to me and fundamental in my development. It gifted me confidence and a safe place to turn to, not to mention that I’m positive it saved my life. They don't need to screw it up.

NOBODY could ever embody these characters the way the original actors did. Can you imagine anybody but Emma Watson being Hermione? Anyone except Daniel being Harry? Anybody else but Rupert being Ron? Believe me, I know the films are not perfect. Harry should have been sassier, Ginny should have been more fiery, Ron’s character shouldn’t have been reduced, Peeves, SPEW, and Winky should have all been included. But nothing is perfect, yet this is one of the best book to movie adaptations ever. It was done so well with so much love, care and talent. In this, Maggie Smith won’t be McGonagall, Alan Rickman won’t be Snape, Robbie Coltrane won’t be Hagrid, Evanna Lynch won’t be Luna, Gary Oldman won’t be Sirius, Helena Bonham Carter won’t be Bellatrix, Warwick Davis won’t be Flitwick, all of the Weasley’s from Molly to Arthur to the twins will be replaced.

Once Emma Watson said maybe in fifty years, they could do a reboot. She could play McGonagall, Daniel Snape, Tom Dumbledore. I’d be fine with that, but it’s too soon now. The younger cast is just now reaching their thirties, Daniel Radcliffe is just now having a child of his own. It’s too soon.

And to those who are saying “just don’t watch it.” This will affect the fandom. The characterizations, the parks, the tours, the look/feel of Hogwarts, Diagon Alley, Hogsmeade and everything else. It’s all going to be reimagined. This is nothing more than a cash grab from an already incredibly profitable franchise. As in, the third most profitable behind only Marvel and Star Wars.

The Wizarding World is always ready to be expanded. But Harry Potter, the characters, the world at that period in time, that feeling of home we get when we look at the set story, does not need a reboot.

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The actor Robbie Coltrane, who has died aged 72, was regularly described as a big man of the British screen. Journalists said he was heavy on talent yet thin-skinned as an interviewee. He disliked his encounters with the press. But the larger-than-life roles with which he was most associated – the criminal psychologist Fitz, Harry Potter’s half-giant friend Hagrid – demonstrated something else: they were performances of a kind of crumpled vulnerability that was also characteristic of the man.

Coltrane recalled that during the filming of Ocean’s Twelve (2004), he found himself sitting at a table with George Clooney, Matt Damon and Brad Pitt. “These are about the three most successful, most beautiful actors in the world at the moment. And here am I. A fat boy from Rutherglen … What the fuck am I doing here?”

The fat boy from Rutherglen also had a splendidly eviscerating wit, useful for rebuffing questions premised on his girth. Once, he was telling an interviewer how he was trying to raise money for a film about Laurel and Hardy. Who would you play, his interlocutor asked? “I’d be playing the wee one with the funny hair, like yourself,” snapped back Coltrane.

It was easy to confuse the big man with his big roles. In the 1990s ITV crime drama Cracker, scripted by Jimmy McGovern, for which Coltrane won the best actor Bafta three years in succession, he played Dr Eddie “Fitz” Fitzgerald, an obese, alcoholic, foul-mouthed, sarcastic, yet cerebral criminal psychologist. “I drink too much, I smoke too much, I gamble too much. I am too much,” Coltrane’s Fitz shouted in one episode. That self-description seemed to fit actor as much as character. True, smoking and gambling were not Coltrane’s vices, but alcohol was: “Booze is my undoing,” he said once. “I can drink a gallon of beer and not feel the least bit drunk.” And Coltrane was regularly written up as just too much, dominating conversations with anecdotes and funny voices rather than listening.

There could also be too little of the big man. When, for instance, he fulfilled his manifest destiny and played the boozy, libidinous, life force Falstaff in Kenneth Branagh’s 1989 film of Henry V, the critics felt short-changed. “Mr Coltrane is not on the screen long enough to create any true idea of Falstaff’s magnificence,” decided the New York Times. “Instead, he simply looks like a woozy Santa Claus.”

He could also erase himself exasperatingly: once in 2012, after disclosing to an interviewer that he was diabetic and had lost four and a half stone in order that a leg operation could proceed, he turned tight-lipped. How did he lose weight? “I just stopped eating for a while.” Seriously, how did he manage it, pursued his interviewer. “No, no, no! I don’t want to talk about this in the press!”

Born Anthony McMillan in Rutherglen, near Glasgow, he changed his name, on becoming an actor, in honour of the great jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. His mother, Jean Ross, was a pianist and teacher, and his father, Ian, a GP who also worked as a police surgeon. His son recalled that Dr McMillan “used to spend all weekend stitching up knife victims”. Their son attended Glenalmond college, an independent school in Perthshire, often described as Scotland’s equivalent to Eton. “It was a very strict school and I didn’t respond well to discipline.” Indeed, he was nearly expelled for hanging prefects’ gowns from the school clocktower, but also played for the school’s rugby team, captained the debating team and won prizes for his art.

At Glasgow School of Art (1968-72), he was nicknamed Lord Fauntleroy for the posh accent he quickly repressed. Contemporaries included the poet Liz Lochhead and TV presenter Muriel Gray. He soon became known as Red Robbie for his involvement with radical causes. In 1971, he supported the campaign by workers to keep the Glasgow shipyards open. “I believe I showed a pornographic movie and charged people five shillings to look at it and gave the money to Upper Clyde shipbuilders.”

To his lasting regret, he never became a painter. In 2014, when invited back to art school to open the Reid Building, Coltrane said: “I wanted to paint like the painters who really moved me, who made me want to weep about humanity. Titian, Rembrandt. But I looked at my diploma show and felt a terrible disappointment when I realised all the things that were in my head were not on the canvas. I felt there was something wrong with my hands. That was a heartbreaking day.”

At art school he had started acting. Lochhead saw him in Harold Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter and recalled his performance as “fantastic … bloody terrifying”. His memory was different: “I threw up every night before going on stage.” He went on to study art for another year, at the Moray House College of Education, Edinburgh, and acting became his vocation: “One day, [the renowned Scottish actors] Bill Paterson and Alex Norton came to me and said ‘Are you just going to carry on showing off in pubs, or are you going to take this seriously?’ and they sent me to the Traverse theatre”. His first success was in John Byrne’s trilogy The Slab Boys (1979), about a group of young working-class Scots in the 1960s.

Coltrane came to British TV viewers’ attention in a string of 1980s sketch shows, including A Kick Up the 80s and Laugh? I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee, working alongside Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie, Ben Elton, Stephen Fry and Rik Mayall. He went on to become a fixture of TV comedy, starring in Blackadder and several films in the Comic Strip Presents series.

He was particularly fine as the butt of Blackadder’s wit as an increasingly apoplectic Dr Samuel Johnson in a 1987 episode. “Here it is, sir. The very cornerstone of English scholarship,” the doctor declared to Blackadder, brandishing the manuscript of his recently completed dictionary. “This book, sir, contains every word in our beloved language.”

“Well, in that case, sir,” retorted Blackadder, “I hope you will not object if I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic contrafibularities.”

He was better yet at the difficult task of playing Charles Bronson playing Ken Livingstone in the Comic Strip Presents … GLC: The Carnage Continues (1990). After preventing the Tories from flooding south London to turn it into a yacht club, Coltrane’s Livingstone strives to thwart Margaret Thatcher from beheading the Prince of Wales and taking over the kingdom.

Coltrane’s success had downsides. “I’d been broke for a long time and suddenly I had enough money in the bank not to worry if I could afford to eat out or drink a whole bottle of whisky and suddenly I was famous. It went to my head. It only lasted for 15 years.” His friend the actor John Sessions once said that Coltrane had a “strong self-destructive streak … a deep, driving melancholy”.

In the late 1980s, nearing 40, he met Rhona Gemmell. They had a son and daughter and married in 1999, but split up four years later.

The funny man went straight in 1987, when he starred opposite Thompson in Tutti Frutti, a six-part drama by Byrne about a faded Scots rock’n’roll band called the Majestics, newly fronted by the dead singer’s brother, Danny McGlone (Coltrane), who has a romance with a former classmate, Suzi Kettles (Thompson). Danny proves his fondness for Suzi at one point by taking a drill to the teeth of her estranged husband, a dentist. The performance earned him his first Bafta nomination.

Though his subsequent performances in Cracker (1993-96, plus a 2006 revival episode) won awards and critical plaudits, it was the cheesy British film comedies such as Nuns on the Run (1990) and The Pope Must Die (1991) that made Coltrane a movie star. He also appeared in two consecutive James Bond films, GoldenEye (1995) and The World Is Not Enough (1999). In 2000, he came sixth in a UK poll to find the “most famous Scot”, behind the Loch Ness monster, Robbie Burns, Sean Connery, Robert the Bruce and William Wallace.

In 2001, though, Coltrane’s celebrity status went global when he was cast as Hagrid, the half-giant gamekeeper of Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry in the first film adaptation of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter novels, reportedly at Rowling’s insistence. The 6ft 1in actor had to adjust to the novelty of being looked up to by adoring small fans. “Kids come up to you and they go: ‘Would you like to sign my book?’ with those big doe eyes. And it’s a serious responsibility.” In 2006 he was appointed OBE.

Coltrane had a passion for classic cars, which he indulged in two travelogues. For Coltrane in a Cadillac (1993) he drove from Los Angeles to New York in a convertible; in 1997 he drove from London to Glasgow in an open-top Jaguar for Robbie Coltrane’s B-Road Britain.

When, in 2009, Coltrane hung up Hagrid’s beard for the last time, after filming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2, the eighth and final adaptation from Rowling’s books, it was with regret. He went on to star in David Pirie’s well-received cop drama Murderland (2009) and in the last episodes of the US sitcom Frasier.

He memorably captured the years when entertainment crashed into investigations of sexual abuse as the veteran comedian Paul Finchley in the Channel 4 drama series National Treasure, written by Jack Thorne, with Julie Walters as his wife and Andrea Riseborough as his troubled daughter. Times and attitudes had moved on: again there was a crumpled vulnerability as Finchley failed to come to terms with what was happening to him. In 2020, Coltrane appeared in Sky Arts’ Urban Myths series as Orson Welles in Norwich.

He is survived by his son, Spencer, daughter, Alice, and sister, Annie.

🔔 Robbie Coltrane (Anthony Robert McMillan), actor, born 30 March 1950, died 14 October 2022

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My mate posted this. He was so much more than Hagrid.

Robbie Coltrane passed away. I’d like to take this moment to highlight his impact on British Culture.

Without argument the highlight of his career was the Ghost of Christmas in Blackadders Christmas carol. (1988)

However his impact started as early as his role of “man at airfield” in the 1980 sci Fi masterpiece Flash Gordon. And who can forget his role as the CB voice in classic British sit com “are you being served?” Although the mid 80s proved triumphant for him with a role as Rhun, in the movie Krull, arguably an equally shit movie akin to Hawk the Slayer was it not for Jack Palance. Multiple roles in The young ones, French and Saunders and other sketch shows and various movies like Absolute beginners, as putting him next to skinny David Bowie might make him look like a half Giant. What few British comedic actors can claim to have supported Lenny Henry in the brief time he was actually funny? Not many.

As a true Scotsman, he nailed the role of “Man in a Bathroom” in a little known movie and easily forgotten sequel National Lampoons European vacation.

Star Wars actor Mark Hamill and Aliens foul mouthed kick ass commando Bill Paxton starred in Slimstream (of course you haven’t heard of it) but Coltrane stole the screen with the loveable best friend role of Montclaire. Clearly this catapulted him into 2 Bond movies, one of which was not shit and had a fucking awesome Nintendo game. And again showing his comedy chops alongside mildly famous Eric Idle in Nuns on the run.

Then a stint as quirky criminally minded perverse interrogator in the long running show “Cracker” showing all the best of a quirky, criminally minded perverse Scotsman.

Then sadly, he was type cast as a fat jolly fellow for some anti gender equality authors novel film adaptations who had the audacity to reuse the exact same fucking costume from blackadders Christmas carol, because they gave all the money to Hans Gruber and the kids. And he was forced to do that like 8 times. 11 if you include the Disney shorts to watch while you’re in line.

Rip Robbie Coltrane, who was so much more than just Hagrid.

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Review | Hogwarts Legacy

Note: Were it not for controversial comments made by Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, this game would be universally beloved and applauded. As it stands, there are a fair amount of people that view supporting this game as the same as supporting repression of or violence against transgendered individuals. The Geek Cave Podcast does not endorse any views or movements that practice anything other than peace, acceptance, and tolerance. A game code was provided for review; the following article looks solely at the game and its individual merits.

Anyone who has ever heard a story about wizards and witches and picked up a twig as a child to pretend it was a magic wand has wondered, at some point or another, what it would be like to actually be able to practice magic, casting spells, riding fantastic beasts (or brooms), and having incredible power at one’s own disposal. Portkey Games’ Hogwarts Legacy, which takes place within the Harry Potter universe but centuries prior to Harry’s own adventures, seeks to at least give you a taste of what that’s like, and it does so admirably.

You take on the role of a new student at Hogwarts, the school for witchcraft and wizardry known the world over, except you’re no ordinary student: you’re jumping in as a fifth-year student (practically unheard of except for a few outliers) and also have the ability to see traces of ancient magic (ditto on the “practically unheard of” part). The game wastes no time in alerting you to the seriousness of the whole situation by having a dragon attack your ride to Hogwarts, straight up eating one of your carriage’s passengers in the process. 

Once you escape, your studies begin, as you balance getting classwork done with unraveling an ancient mystery into the special magic that is also desired by a group of goblins revolting against the current societal norms. Whlle there were some concerns prior to launch about the goblin race seemingly being used as a charicature for the Jews, in my playing experience the “evil” goblins made up a minority of the goblins you’ll encounter in the game; it seems, just like with any other group of people, there are good and bad examples. 

Commentary aside, the world is as you may remember it from the Warner Bros. Hogwarts-related films. Hogwarts itself is lovingly recreated in fine detail, including a small memorial at the groundskeeper’s hut in honor of Hagrid actor Robbie Coltrane. Hogsmeade, similarly, is vibrant and full of the same energy you get glimpses of in the films (disclaimer: I haven’t read the books but I’ve been assured by a few said book series fans that the details are spot on). The environments and set pieces are well-made, and the visual effects from each individual spell also look great. The only time I had a hard time actively looking at Hogwarts Legacy was when I tried it out on the Steam Deck (we received a code for the PC version). On a decent PC or laptop, it looks great. On the Steam Deck, it runs on low to medium settings, and you’ll be able to tell it was a bit scaled down. Expect the Switch version to be similar. 

Gameplay-wise, though, no matter what version you pick up, combat feels fast and very customizable. I compared it to the Fable or Kingdoms of Amalur series of games when talking about my experience with a friend. Specific spells are mapped to the face buttons on your controller, while the right trigger can fire a basic attack spell when tapped. Defensive actions are also mapped to the face buttons; to differentiate between those and using a particular spell, just hold the right trigger before casting... and there are a lot of spells to learn, giving you ample reason to take on side quests. 

Speaking of side quests, Hogwarts Legacy gives you plenty to keep yourself occupied, whether you’re into fetch quests, monster hunting, or herbology. Eventually you’ll unlock the Room of Requirement, which will let you set up your own potion brewing and plant growing stations plus more. Hogwarts Legacy almost has too many things for you to do, as I found myself constantly overpowered for whatever part of the main campaign I finally got around to doing after first focusing on doing things for my classmates and teachers. Each “house” of Hogwarts Legacy also has exclusive sidequests, so completionists will have to replay multiple times (I went with Hufflepuff for my first playthrough because it’s the only one that featured a trip to Azkaban Prison). 

The game’s soundtrack evokes the classic John Williams theme, which even showed up as an easter egg for a particular puzzle. Voice acting is mostly good, with a couple of side characters being a bit annoying to listen to (but not to the point of unbearable). 

Overall, Hogwarts Legacy delivers exactly what someone would want from a Wizarding World game. Controversy about the world’s creator aside, it’s clear that the team behind the game care deeply about not only the fiction, but the real-world fandom. 

Be Like Me. Definitely worth playing.

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I just saw a Hagrid TikTok that said rest in peace Robbie Coltrane so I had to look it up

yea, it’s true

now I’m crying

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Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and other

Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and other

Robbie Coltrane, known best for his role as half-giant Rubeus Hagrid in the “Harry Potter” franchise, died Friday at age 72. Fans all around the world are mourning the beloved actor, including his “Harry Potter” co-stars. Daniel Radcliffe, who played Harry Potter, shared a tribute on his website to the late Coltrane, calling him “an incredible actor and a lovely man” who used to make everyone…

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Sad to hear of the passing of Actor/Comedian Robbie Coltrane (1950-2022)

Anthony Robert McMillan OBE, known professionally as Robbie Coltrane, was a Scottish actor and comedian whose hundreds of roles included a crime-solving psychologist on the TV series “Cracker” and the gentle half-giant Hagrid in the “Harry Potter” movies, has died.

He was 72.

He died Friday at a hospital in his native Scotland and no cause of death listed.

Born Anthony Robert McMillan in Rutherglen, Scotland on March 30, 1950 Coltrane was in his early 20s when he began pursuing an acting career and renamed himself in honor of jazz musician John Coltrane.

He already had a notable 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 hard-bitten detective in “Cracker,” the 1990s TV series for which he won best actor at the British Academy Television Awards three years running.

He went on to appear in all eight “Harry Potter” movie as the young wizard’s mentor and had a wide variety of other parts, including a Russian crime boss in the James Bond thrillers “GoldenEye” and “The World is Not Enough” and Pip’s guardian 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.”

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

My Condolences to Family and Friends.

#R.I.P. 😔🙏🥀

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

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Robbie Coltrane Has Passed Away at 72

Robbie Coltrane Has Passed Away at 72

The Blog That Must Not Be Named is deeply saddened that Robbie Coltrane, known for his role as Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter movies, has passed away at the age of 72. Coltrane’s agent Belinda Wright announced the news with a statement, calling the actor an “intelligent and brilliantly witty” client. Coltrane had an illustrious career, appearing in well-known projects including two James…

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Robbie Coltrane and Harry Potter and Cracker star dies at 72

London: Robbie Coltrane, baby-faced comedian and character actor whose hundreds of roles have included a crime-solving psychologist on the TV series cracking And Hagrid, the gentle half-giant, died in the Harry Potter films. He was 72 years old. Coltrane’s agent, Belinda Wright, said he died on Friday in a hospital in his native Scotland, and did not immediately provide further details. She described him as “forensically intelligent” and “brilliantly intelligent” in just one of the many praises made to him. Harry Potter Author J.K. Rowling, who said decades ago that Coltrane was her first choice to play Hagrid, tweeted on Friday that he was “an amazing, one-of-a-kind talent.” “I was so fortunate to know him, work with him, and laugh my head off with him,” she wrote. Born in Rutherglen, Scotland, Anthony Robert Macmillan was in his early twenties when he began pursuing an acting career and renamed himself in honor of jazz musician John Coltrane. He already had a prestigious career on screen, including the credits Mona LisaAnd the runaway nuns and adaptation of Kenneth Branagh for Henry V When he broke on his own as a ruthless investigator in crackingthe 1990s television series for which he won Best Actor at the British Academy Television Awards for three consecutive years. Robbie Coltrane at Cracker. Keep showing up at eight Harry Potter Films as the mentor of a young magician and has a variety of other parts, including the Russian crime leader in James Bond thrillers golden eye And the The world is not enough Pip’s guardian Mr. Jaggers in 2012 adapted from the movie Dickens great predictions. Recently, he received rave reviews for playing a lovable TV star who might be hiding a dark secret in the 2016 mini-series. national treasure. Friday, his runaway nuns Co-star Eric Edel tweeted that he was talking about Coltrane, “who wonders where he was,” when he learned of his death. Source link Originally published at Melbourne News Vine

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I know that with everything that has happened and everyone that has been hurt by it, some people have distanced or completely removed themselves from the HP fandom, and I completely respect and understand that. But Harry Potter has become much bigger than the author after all this time, and I can separate the art from the artist, I have to because I need it, so I will occasionally post about it. If you don’t want to acknowledge those posts, once again I completely understand. I just ask for no hate or degradation of me or anyone else who passes by this tumblr. I urge you to share your opinions because my favorite thing is talking about fandom with other people, and that includes the nitty gritty reality side, but do it in a respectful manner. For instance, Robbie Coltrane has passed away. He played Hagrid in the movies and was one of the cast members to ask fans to lay off JK. Never did he say that he agreed with her. Never did I hear him utter a bad word in interviews or general press. But I got three comments I had to delete because they were cruel about this human being’s death, and I don’t allow that here. I will never support, condone, or encourage JK Rowlings view of those in the trans community. No one knows you or your sex better than you do, so no one has any right to say who/what you are or aren’t. It is not their prerogative, it is not JK’s prerogative, it is not my prerogative. But there is a large difference in the art and the creator. And Harry Potter, especially with the golden trio, was always a story about misfits banning together. And I get that’s a large reason why so many felt betrayed by JK’s statement. But Harry Potter made me feel good and confident in myself in a time where I just so desperately needed that. And I still need that. So I don’t feel bad about loving and still celebrating Harry Potter. Even taking what I just said though I don’t think you need a deeper reason to love art for what it is. Because that doesn’t mean you support the artist. You can and should do whatever is best for you. My life is best acknowledging that JK is wrong, and continuing to be able appreciate her work, because her work is not her. For some people it was best to remove themselves from HP because for them the creator was just too important to ignore. Both are fair views that I have no problem being shared. Only when words are written with vehemence and cruelty, I will remove them. It says right on my Tumblr description. This is a place of admiration, not hate.

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Actor Robbie Coltrane, who played Harry Potter's Hagrid, dies at age 72 : NPR

Actor Robbie Coltrane, who played Harry Potter’s Hagrid, dies at age 72 : NPR

Robbie Coltrane arrives in London for the world premiere of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 on July 7, 2011. Coltrane, who played Hagrid in the Harry Potter movies, has died at age 72. Jonathan Short/AP hide caption toggle caption Jonathan Short/AP LONDON — Robbie Coltrane, the baby-faced comedian and character actor whose hundreds of roles included a crime-solving psychologist…

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So sad to that Robbie Coltrane passed away today at 72. He’s been in a ton of roles including Hagrid from Harry Potter films and Valentin Zukovsky from the James Bond franchise. He will be missed by many. RIP, sir #robbiecoltrane #rip #actor https://www.instagram.com/p/CjtOexUuyVZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Robbie Coltrane, “Harry Potter” Hagrid actor, dies at 72

This one hits especially hard for fans of the Harry Potter film franchise: The Hollywood Reporter says Robbie Coltrane, who not only played Hagrid in the popular series but also appeared in two James Bond movies, has passed away at a hospital in Scotland.

His TV credits also include Flash Gordon and Blackadder.

Our condolences go out to his family, friends, and fans.