Obit: actor Robbie Coltrane (1950-2022)

Subject: Obit: Robbie Coltrane
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 14 Oct 22 - 01:07 PM

Robbie Coltrane, star of Cracker and Harry Potter, dies aged 72 Scottish actor who graduated from the alternative comedy scene to become a major performer known for taking on complex and difficult roles

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Subject: RE: Obit: actor Robbie Coltrane (1950-2022)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 14 Oct 22 - 02:54 PM

Oh, Robbie Coltrane played Hagrid. He did a wonderful job of playing that role in the Harry Potter movies. He also played a villain (Zukovsky) in a couple of James Bond movies in the 1990s.

Subject: RE: Obit: actor Robbie Coltrane (1950-2022)
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Oct 22 - 04:53 PM

I loved his surreal comedy in Oceans 11

Subject: RE: Obit: actor Robbie Coltrane (1950-2022)
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Oct 22 - 03:41 AM

Not to forget Blackadder and GBH.

Subject: RE: Obit: actor Robbie Coltrane (1950-2022)
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 15 Oct 22 - 05:45 AM

RIP to a wonderful comedian and actor. Condolonces to his family and freinds :-(

ITV have put up 'Cracker' on their streaming hub. I shall be watching.

Subject: RE: Obit: actor Robbie Coltrane (1950-2022)
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Oct 22 - 08:50 AM

Robert Carlyle will be broken-hearted.
"Cracker"'s multi-episode arc,
To Be A Somebody,
was an enormous career breakthrough for Carlyle,
a performance that people still talk about years later.

Subject: RE: Obit: actor Robbie Coltrane (1950-2022)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 15 Oct 22 - 09:50 AM

RIP Mr C. Loved Cracker

Subject: RE: Obit: actor Robbie Coltrane (1950-2022)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Oct 22 - 11:03 AM

He was in one of the best Blackadder episodes: C is for Contrafibularity.

Subject: RE: Obit: actor Robbie Coltrane (1950-2022)
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Oct 22 - 06:08 PM

Indeed!

Subject: RE: Obit: actor Robbie Coltrane (1950-2022)
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Oct 22 - 03:45 PM

They're showing the Harry Potter films on television here
as a tribute to Hagrid / Robbie Coltrane.
Just saw
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, at the end of which
Hagrid returns to Hogwarts from Azkaban and receives
a standing ovation from students and faculty alike.
Heart-warming scene, one of my all-time favorites.

Subject: RE: Obit: actor Robbie Coltrane (1950-2022)
From: Senoufou
Date: 31 Oct 22 - 05:56 AM

In Norwich Castle Mall, where we were yesterday, they've put up a lovely big photo of Robbie Coltrane in his Hagrid costume, and many people were looking at it sadly. Great character actor.

Subject: RE: Obit: actor Robbie Coltrane (1950-2022)
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 06 Nov 22 - 07:32 PM

We were at the John Byrne exhibition in Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Museum and art gallery in September, just a few weeks before Robbie died: it included a whole section on Robbie, including an old TV programme about him(? Arena) well before the Harry Potter days, more about “Tutti Frutti”, another of his triumphs. (which no-one else has recalled so far?)

Subject: RE: Obit: actor Robbie Coltrane (1950-2022)
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 06 Nov 22 - 07:56 PM

I remember it!