Actor Robbie Coltrane, Harry Potter’s Hagrid, dies at 72.
LONDON — Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane, who played a crime-solving psychologist on TV series “Cracker” and the half-giant Hagrid in the “Harry Potter” movies, has died. He was 72.
Coltrane came to fame as a hard-bitten detective in the 1990s series “Cracker,” for which he won best actor at the British Academy Television Awards three years running. Other roles include a Russian crime boss in the James Bond thrillers “GoldenEye” and “The World is Not Enough.”
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