Goodbye Robbie! (13 photos)

Scottish film and television actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer Robbie Coltrane has left.





Anthony Robert Macmillan was born on March 30, 1950 in Rutherglen, Scotland. Educated at a prestigious college Glenalmond, from which he was almost expelled due to a violation disciplines.



After Glenalmond, the young man entered the Glasgow School of Art, and then the House of the Seas Teachers College in Edinburgh.

Participated in multiple actions: international amnesty, Greenpeace, the Labor Party and the campaign for nuclear disarmament. One For a time he was even a member of the Hells Angels biker organization.





Robbie took his pseudonym in honor of the jazz saxophonist John Coltrane.

In the early 80s, he began to be invited to the BBC in comedy series and shows.



Soon he began to get small roles in big movies: "Flash Gordon" (1980), Live Reporting Death (1980), Krull (1983), Snitch (1985), Absolute Beginners (1986), Mona Lisa (1986).



The video store generation discovered it with the hit comedy Nuns on the Run.



He even had a chance to play the Pope in the comedy "The Pope Must Lose Weight" (The Pope Must Diet).



One of the few non-main cast who appeared in more than one Bond film.



There were many roles from the children's "Alice in Wonderland"



to the dark story of Jack the Ripper in From Hell.



The generation of the new age knows him as Hagrid from the Harry Potter saga.



Doctors warned Coltrane that if he did not lose weight, he may be in a wheelchair. Unfortunately, that is what happened.

His last work was the series "National Treasure" (2016).



Robbie Coltrane passed away on October 14, 2022.

He was 72 years old.