Also in Alfresco with Stephen Fry & supporting actor in Pierce Brosnan series' James Bond. Lovely actor. RIP

I loved his cameo as Dr. Johnson in BlackAdder season 3: Ink and Incapability. RIP.

Ah indeed, thanks for reminding!

A huge rollercoaster of a novel, crammed with sizzling gypsies!

It's too bad one of his last public comments was defending Rowling's transphobia. Maybe he changed his tune as she went mask-off and fully embraced fringe, reactionary elements, but I couldn't find anything. He could have had a nice legacy as having played beloved character.

For 90% of people, he will.

Yep. The significance of minorities to those with power is the issue here, after all. I'm aware most people will happily continue supporting a bigot who makes things that please them.

I've read her writing on the subject and it's rather a stretch to call her a bigot. It's possible to have a subtle position where you believe the rights of one group shouldn't override another. How can we possibly discuss a subject when someone like her, who can write thoughtfully but holds a different but not totally oppositional position is attacked so vehemently?

I've also tried to read her books and think they're pretty pants. Boring stories, bad prose, tiresome characters.

RIP Robbie. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FX51mwWyVFY

I suspect you misunderstand which views are fringe and which are mainstream.

How disrespectful, what a disparaging framing of what really happened: Coltrane was defending a friend and colleague from the abuse and death threats she'd received for speaking up on women's rights. Actually very honourable behaviour on his part. He was a great actor and a good man.

The people she disrespectfully accuses of abuse and death threats also receive abuse and death threats for speaking up on women's rights. The difference is who each faction believes gets to be a woman. Based on Rowling's recent associations, her concept is contracting more and more every day.

"My children's generation will show them to their children, so you could be watching it in 50 years time, easy. I'll not be here, sadly, but Hagrid will."

Cracker. Brilliant British tv.

https://youtu.be/7s8uxq7sfBo (Robbie starts in at 2 mins, comic relief revue with Helen Mirren and Pete Postlethwaite!)

I'm glad the article had mention of Cracker, it really is amongst Robbie Coltrane's finest work. The Hillsborough episode with Robert Carlyle was a exceptionally dramatic production, with incredibly powerful performances from them both.

Absolutely agree. Probably the best police drama I've ever watched. Note that when Cracker was on TV, he won the BAFTA award for best actor each of the three years.

Came in to say that. It was a hard watch, e.g. the one with the serial rapist. But to this day I judge every police drama in comparison to that. They all come short.

I really enjoyed his documentary series Coltrane's Planes and Automobiles. RIP Robbie.

He'll always be this guy, to me: https://goldeneye.fandom.com/wiki/Valentin_Zukovsky

First noticed Robbie Coltrane in the movie 'Let It Ride'. Minor part at the betting window, but played it with plenty of spark. Same in every minute of him in Potter. Too bad he never mixed it up with the Pythons.