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Scottish actor (–)

Not to be confused with Ravi Coltrane.

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Born	Anthony Robert McMillan ()30 March Rutherglen, Scotland
Died	14 October () (aged&#;72) Larbert, Scotland
Alma&#;mater	Glasgow School of Art
Occupation	Actor
Years&#;active	–
Spouse	Rhona Gemmell &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#;
Children	2

Anthony Robert McMillan (30 March &#;&#; 14 October ), known professionally as Robbie Coltrane, was a Scottish actor.

He gained worldwide recognition in the s for playing Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter film series. He was appointed an OBE in the New Year Honours by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to drama. In , Coltrane received the Evening Standard British Film Award&#;&#; Peter Sellers Award for Comedy. In , he was honoured for his "outstanding contribution" to film at the British Academy Scotland Awards.

Coltrane started his career appearing alongside Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, and Emma Thompson in the sketch series Alfresco. In , he starred in the BBC miniseries Tutti Frutti with Thompson, for which he received his first British Academy Television Award for Best Actor nomination. Coltrane then gained national prominence starring as criminal psychologist Dr.

Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald in the ITV television series Cracker, a role that saw him receive the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in three consecutive years from to In , Coltrane came eleventh in ITV's poll of TV's 50 Greatest Stars, voted by the public.^[1] In , he starred in the four-part Channel 4 series National Treasure alongside Julie Walters, a role for which he received a British Academy Television Award nomination.

Coltrane appeared in the films Mona Lisa and Nuns on the Run and as Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky in the James Bond filmsGoldenEye and The World Is Not Enough. He also appeared in the films Henry V, Let It Ride, Danny, the Champion of the World, Ocean's Twelve, The Brothers Bloom, Great Expectations, and Effie Gray, and provided voice acting roles in the animated films The Tale of Despereaux and Brave.

Early life and education

Coltrane was born Anthony Robert McMillan on 30 March in Rutherglen, Scotland, the son of Jean Ross Howie, a teacher and pianist, and Ian Baxter McMillan, a GP who also served as a forensic police surgeon.^[2] He had an older sister, Annie, and a younger sister, Jane.^{[3][4][circular reporting?]} Coltrane was the great-grandson of Scottish businessman Thomas W.

Howie and the nephew of businessman Forbes Howie.^[5]

He started his education at Belmont House School in Newton Mearns before boarding at Glenalmond College, an independent school in Perthshire. 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.^[6] He studied painting at the Glasgow School of Art.^[7]

Coltrane later called for private schools to be banned and used to be known as "Red Robbie", rebelling against his conservative upbringing through involvement with Amnesty International, Greenpeace, the Labour Party, and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.^[8]

Career

Coltrane moved into acting in his early twenties, adopting the stage name Coltrane (in tribute to jazz saxophonist John Coltrane)^[9] and working in theatre and comedy.

He appeared in the first stage production of John Byrne's The Slab Boys, at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh ().^[10] His comedic abilities brought him roles in The Comic Strip Presents (–) series^[11] (in he directed and co-wrote the episode "Jealousy" for series 5),^[12] as well as the comedy sketch show Alfresco (–).^[13] In he appeared in A Kick Up the Eighties (Series 2) and Laugh???

I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee, and is credited as a writer for both.^[14][15]

Coltrane moved into roles in films such as Flash Gordon (), Death Watch (), Balham, Gateway to the South (), Scrubbers (), Krull (), The Supergrass (), Defence of the Realm (), Absolute Beginners (), Mona Lisa (), and appeared as "Annabelle" in The Fruit Machine ().^[16]

On television, he appeared in The Young Ones, Tutti Frutti (), as Samuel Johnson in Blackadder the Third ()^[17] (a role he later reprised in the more serious Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands ()), LWT'sThe Robbie Coltrane Special (, which he also co-wrote),^[18] and in other stand-up and sketch comedy shows.

He played the part of Falstaff in Kenneth Branagh's Henry V (). The same year he starred opposite Jeremy Irons in the television film adaptation of Roald Dahl's children's book Danny, the Champion of the World.^[19]

He co-starred with Eric Idle in Nuns on the Run () and played the Pope in The Pope Must Die ().^[16] He also played a would-be private detective obsessed with Humphrey Bogart in the TV film The Bogie Man ().^[20] His roles continued in the s with the TV series Cracker (–, returning in for a one-off special), in which he starred as forensic psychologist Dr.

Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald.^[21] The role won him three BAFTA awards.^[6]

Roles in bigger films followed: the James Bond films GoldenEye () and The World Is Not Enough (), a supporting role in From Hell (), as well as half-giant Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter films (–). J.

K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, had Coltrane at the top of her list to play Hagrid and, when asked whom she would like to see in the role, responded "Robbie Coltrane for Hagrid" in one quick breath.^[22][23]

Coltrane also presented a number of documentary programmes for the British ITV network based around his twin passions for travel and transportation.

Coltrane in a Cadillac () saw him cross North America from Los Angeles to New York City behind the wheel of a Cadillac Series 62 coupe convertible, a journey of 3, miles (6,&#;km), which he completed in 32 days.^[24][25]

In , Coltrane appeared in a series of six programmes under the title Coltrane's Planes and Automobiles, in which he extolled the virtues of the steam engine, the diesel engine, the supercharger, the V8 engine, the two-stroke engine, and the jet engine.

In these programmes he dismantled and rebuilt several engines. He also single-handedly removed the engine from a Trabant car in 23 minutes.^[26]

In September , Coltrane was voted No. 11 in ITV's TV's 50 Greatest Stars and sixth in a poll of 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.^[1]

In August , Coltrane presented a series for ITV called B-Road Britain, in which he travelled from London to Glasgow, stopping in towns and villages along the way.^[27]

Coltrane voiced characters in several animated films, including The Tale of Despereaux () and Pixar's Brave (), as well as the title roles of Gooby and The Gruffalo (both ).^[28][29]

In , Coltrane starred in National Treasure, a four-part drama in which he played a former comedian accused of historic sexual offences.

He was nominated for Best Actor at the British Academy Television Awards,^[30] and won in the category at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards.^[31] Maureen Ryan of Variety wrote that "Coltrane does a masterful job of depicting every nuance of the character, whose wicked sense of humor masks a startling, and possibly intentional, lack of self-awareness".^[32]

Personal life

Coltrane met Rhona Gemmell, then a student at Glasgow School of Art, in the late s.^[33][34] The couple had two children.

Coltrane and Gemmell married in , but separated in and later divorced, although they remained close.^[33][35]

In February , Coltrane appeared at a Scottish Labour event, in which he said on the question of Scottish independence "It's a very complicated issue. I would think, probably, eventually I would like to see independence but only an independent Labour Scotland", while adding "It would have to be terribly carefully considered.

There are all sorts of advantages to being part of the United Kingdom and it would be foolish to throw it away immediately" and "I have no time for the nationalists – all they can do is split the vote for home rule and let the Tories in".^[36]

Coltrane expressed support for J. K. Rowling over critics' accusations of transphobia.

In a Radio Times interview, he said that he felt that she had not said anything offensive, but rather that there was "a whole Twitter generation of people who hang around waiting to be offended." He refused to elaborate, saying that he "[didn't] want to get involved in all of that because of all the hate mail and all that shit, which [he didn't] need at [his] time of life."^[37]

Health and death

Coltrane suffered from osteoarthritis in later life.

He said he was in "constant pain all day" in , and, from onwards, he used a wheelchair.^[38]

Coltrane died at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert, Scotland, on 14 October , at the age of He had been ill for two years prior to his death.^[39][40][41] His death was registered by his ex-wife Rhona Gemmell;^[33] the death certificate listed the causes as multiple organ failure complicated by sepsis, a lower respiratory tract infection, and heart block.

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He had also been diagnosed with obesity and type 2 diabetes.^[42]

Acting credits

Film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
	Play for Today	Jimmie	"Waterloo Sunset"[16]
	The Lost Tribe	Border Post Guard	"Keep Us Alive"[44]
	Metal Mickey	Jason	"Mickey the Demon Barber"[44]
	Keep It in the Family	Mr. Conway	"A Matter of Principle"[44]
	Sin on Saturday	Himself	2 episodes: "Lust", "Covetousness"[44]
	The Young Ones	Slobber	Season 1, episode 2: "Oil"[45]
–	The Comic Strip Presents	Various roles	Series 1–5; Special: "Five Go Mad in Dorset"[11] Director & co-writer&#;&#; Episode: "Jealousy" ()[12]
	Are You Being Served?	C.B. Voice	Voice; Episode: "Calling All Customers"[46]
	Alfresco	Various roles	13 episodes[13]
	A Kick Up the Eighties		Replaced Richard Stilgoe. Writer credits.[14]
	Laugh??? I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee		Writer credits.[15]
	The Young Ones	Dr Carlisle / Captain Blood	Season 2, episode 1: "Bambi" & episode 4: "Time"[45]
	Blackadder the Third	Samuel Johnson	Episode 2: "Ink and Incapability"[17]
	Tutti Frutti	Danny McGlone	6 episodes[16]
	Friday Night Live	Various roles "Uncle Don Corleone"	Show 6[47]
	Blackadder's Christmas Carol	The Spirit of Christmas	Christmas special[16]
	The Robbie Coltrane Special	Himself	LWT comedy special; co-writer[18]
	Screen One	Psychiatrist Liam Kane	Episode: "Alive and Kicking"[44]
	The Bogie Man	Francis Forbes Clunie	TV film[48]
	The Legend of Lochnagar	The old man	Television film, voice role[16]
	Coltrane in a Cadillac	Himself	4-part documentary[49]
–	Cracker	Dr. Robbie coltrane cause of death Robbie coltrane husband Robbie coltrane age Robbie coltrane net worth Robbie coltrane death Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald	25 episodes[49]
	Coltrane's Planes and Automobiles	Himself	6-part documentary[44]
	The Ebb-Tide	Capt. Chisholm	TV film[50]
	Alice in Wonderland	Ned Tweedledum	Television movie[16]
	The Planman	Jack Lennox QC	[51]
	Pride	James	Television film, voice[16]
	Frasier	Michael Moon	Episode: "Goodnight, Seattle"[52]
	Still Game	Davie	Series 4, episode 3: "Dial-A-Bus"[44]
	Cracker: Nine Eleven	Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald	Television film[53]
	Robbie Coltrane&#;&#; B Road Britain	Himself	TV documentary[16]
	Murderland	D.I. Douglas Hain	3-part TV drama[54]
	The Gruffalo	Gruffalo	Short film; voice role[16][55]
	The Gruffalo's Child
	Lead Balloon	Donald	Series 4, episode 4: "Off"[56] Series 4, episode 5: "Blade"[57]
	50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments	Himself	Narrator[58]
	The Many Faces of Robbie Coltrane		TV documentary[59]
	National Treasure	Paul Finchley	4-part TV drama[16]
–18	Robbie Coltrane's Critical Evidence	Host	True crime, non-fiction[60] At least two seasons have been released as DVD sets by BeyondHE.
	Urban Myths	Orson Welles	1 episode[61]
	Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts	Himself	HBO Max special[62]

Theatre

Music video

Theme park attractions

Awards, honours and legacy

Honorary awards

Legacy

On 26 December , BBC Four broadcast the tribute programme Robbie Coltrane at the BBC narrated by friend and fellow actor Celia Imrie.^[79] This was followed by the documentary Richard Wilson Remembers Tutti Frutti^[80] and the first two episodes of Tutti Frutti.^[81] The remaining four episodes were broadcast again over the subsequent two nights.

Publications

• Coltrane, Robbie; Stuart, Graham (May ). Coltrane in a Cadillac. HarperCollins. ISBN&#;
• Coltrane, Robbie (October ). Coltrane's Planes & Automobiles. Simon & Schuster. ISBN&#;
• Coltrane, Robbie (June ). Robbie Coltrane's B-Road Britain.

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References