Harry Potter actor Robbie Coltrane dies at 72

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• Oct 15, 2022 | Dhupali Das

Coltrane’s agent, Belinda Wright, said he died on...

Digital Desk: Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane, who played a crime-solving psychologist on the TV show Cracker and the half-giant Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, has passed away at the age of 72.

Coltrane’s agent, Belinda Wright, said he died on Friday at a hospital in Scotland. She did not give a reason.

Robbie Coltrane rose to prominence as a tough-talking detective in the 1990s television series Cracker, for which he won the best actor at the British Academy Television Awards three years in a row.

He played in all eight Harry Potter movies, which were produced between 2001 and 2011, as the kind-hearted half-giant mentor Hagrid.

Other roles include a Russian crime lord in the James Bond films, Golden Eye, and The World is Not Enough.

Robbie Coltrane gained rave reviews for playing a beloved TV star who may harbor a dark secret in the 2016 miniseries National Treasure.

Belinda Wright said that "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."

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