“The legacy of the movies is that my children’s generation will show them to their children. So you could be watching them in 50 years’ time, easy. I’ll not be here sadly, but Hagrid will.”
he died in a hospital in Scotland after being ill for the past two years. Coltrane — who took his stage name after the jazz great John Coltrane — got his start in alternative and sketch comedy in his native U.K. in the 1980s.
His first film role was inHenry V, for which he won a then-record three consecutive British Academy Television Awards for Best Actor. Shortly after, he began his stint in theThe World Is Not Enoughfilms. His caring portrayal of Hagrid became his best-known work outside the U.K., which he reflected on for
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