Scottish actor, comedian and writer Robbie Coltrane, who played the lovable half-giant Rubeus Hagrid in the \u2018Harry Potter\u2019 franchise, has died, his agency WME confirmed to \u2018Variety\u2019 on Friday night. He was 72.
Coltrane featured in every \u2018Harry Potter\u2019 movie, from \u2018Sorcerer\u2019s Stone\u2019 in 2001 to \u2018Deathly Hallows Part 2\u2019 in 2011, and was much beloved for bringing the character from J.K. Rowling\u2019s book series to life. He was among one of the first characters to appear on screen, and he recited the famous line, \u201cYer a wizard, Harry,\u201d to a young Daniel Radcliffe as he embarked on his journey into the wizarding world.
A towering figure, but softie at heart, notes \u2018Variety\u2019, Hagrid had a sweet spot for ferocious beasts. He cared for some of the \u2018Harry Potter\u2019 world\u2019s most ferocious, and iconic, creatures.
Under his care were Buckbeak the hippogriff, Fang the boarhound, Fluffy the three-headed dog, Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback dragon, Aragog the massive talking spider, and the eerily majestic Thestrals.
In a heart-warming tribute to Coltrane, Daniel Radcliffe said: \u201cRobbie was one of the funniest people I\u2019ve met and used to keep us laughing constantly as kids on the set. I\u2019ve especially fond memories of him keeping our spirits up on \u2018Prisoner of Azkaban\u2019, when we were all hiding from the torrential rain for hours in Hagrid\u2019s hut.
\u201cHe was telling stories and cracking jokes to keep morale up. I feel incredibly lucky that I got to meet and work with him and very sad that he\u2019s passed. He was an incredible actor and a lovely man.\u201d
Coltrane will forever be known to millions as Hagrid in the \u2018Harry Potter\u2019 movies, but he was also a member of the James Bond franchise, having appeared in 1995\u2019s \u2018Golden Eye\u2019 and 1999\u2019s \u2018The World Is Not Enough\u2019.
Most recently, Coltrane returned to his \u2018Harry Potter\u2019 roots and appeared in HBO Max\u2019s 20th anniversary \u2018Return to Hogwarts\u2019 reunion special along with Radcliffe and other stars, notably Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, adds \u2018Variety\u2019.
\u201cThe legacy of the movies is that my children\u2019s generation will show them to their children,\u201d Coltrane said in the reunion special. \u201cSo you could be watching it in 50 years\u2019 time. I\u2019ll not be here, sadly, but Hagrid will, yes.\u201d
Controversial \u2018Harry Potter\u2019 author J.K. Rowling separately honoured Coltrane with a post on Twitter, writing, \u201cI\u2019ll 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. I send my love and deepest condolences to his family, above all his children.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Scottish actor, comedian and writer Robbie Coltrane, who played the lovable half-giant Rubeus Hagrid in the \u2018Harry Potter\u2019 franchise, has died, his agency WME confirmed to \u2018Variety\u2019 on Friday night. He was 72.Coltrane featured in every \u2018Harry Potter\u2019 movie, from \u2018Sorcerer\u2019s Stone\u2019 in 2001 to \u2018Deathly Hallows Part 2\u2019 in 2011, and was much beloved […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":303262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}