ROBBIE COLTRANE

'Robbie Coltrane', OBE (born 'Anthony Robert McMillan' on March 30, 1950) is a Scottish television and film actor.

Contents

Biography

Early life

Career

Personal life

Filmography

References

External links

Biography

Early life

Coltrane was born in Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire to Jean McMillan Ross Howie, a teacher and pianist, and Ian Baxter McMillan, a general practitioner who also served as a forensic police surgeon.^[1][2][3] He has an older sister, Annie, and a late younger sister, Jane. Coltrane is the great-grandson of Scottish businessman Thomas W. Howie. He was educated at Glenalmond College, in Perth and Kinross, Glasgow School of Art, and the Moray House College Of Education in Edinburgh.

Career

Coltrane moved into acting in his early twenties, taking the stage name Coltrane (in tribute to jazz saxophonist John Coltrane)^[4] and working in theatre and stand-up comedy. Appearing in the 1981 BBC television comedy series ''A Kick Up the Eighties'', his comic skills also brought him roles in the ''The Comic Strip Presents'' (1982) series and he was one of the stars of ''Laugh? I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee'' (1984).
Coltrane soon moved into films, obtaining roles in a number of movies such as ''Flash Gordon'' (1980), ''Death Watch'' (1980), ''Scrubbers'' (1983), ''Krull'' (1983), ''Absolute Beginners'' (1986), ''Mona Lisa'' (1986) and appeared as "Annabelle" in ''The Fruit Machine'' (1988). On television, he also appeared in ''The Young Ones'', ''Tutti Frutti'' (1987), as Samuel Johnson in ''Blackadder'' (1987) (a role he later reprised in the more serious ''Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands'' (1993)), and in a number of stand-up and sketch comedy shows.
Coltrane co-starred with Eric Idle in ''Nuns on the Run'' (1990), and played the Pope in ''The Pope Must Die'' (1991). He also played a would-be private detective obsessed with Humphrey Bogart in the TV play ''The Bogie Man''. His roles went from strength to strength in the 1990s with the TV series ''Cracker'' (1993-1996, 2006 one-off special) and a BAFTA award as the stepping stone to parts in bigger films such as the James Bond films ''GoldenEye'' (1995) and ''The World Is Not Enough'' (1999) and a major supporting role in ''From Hell'' (2001) as well as half-giant Rubeus Hagrid in the ''Harry Potter'' films (2001-present). J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, has stated that she created the character of Hagrid based on Coltrane's likeness.
In August 2007, Coltrane presented a series for ITV1 called 'B-Road Britain' in which he travelled from London to Glasgow, stopping in at quirky towns and villages along the way.
Coltrane was voted No. 10 in ITV's "TV's 50 Greatest Stars" and sixth in a poll of 2000 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.

Personal life

Coltrane lives in Stirlingshire. He is currently separated from his wife, with whom he fathered two children, Spencer and Alice. He collects vintage cars.

Filmography

★ ''The Tale of Despereaux'' (2008) .... Gregory

★ ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'' (2007) .... Rubeus Hagrid

★ ''Stormbreaker'' (2006) '' .... Prime Minister

★ ''Cracker: Nine Eleven'' (2006) (TV) .... Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald

★ ''Provoked'' (2006) .... Lord Edward Foster

★ ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'' (2005) .... Rubeus Hagrid

★ ''Ocean's Twelve (2004) .... Matsui

★ ''Pride (2004) (TV) (voice) .... James

★ ''Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'' (2004) - Rubeus Hagrid

★ ''Van Helsing'' (2004) .... voice of Mr. Hyde

★ ''The Planman'' (2003) (TV) .... Jack Lennox QC

★ ''Comic Relief'' 2003: The Big Hair Do (2003) (TV) .... Hagrid

★ ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'' (2002) .... Rubeus Hagrid

★ ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' (Sorcerer's Stone in US) (2001) .... Rubeus Hagrid

★ ''On the Nose'' (2001) .... Delaney

★ ''From Hell'' (2001) .... Sergeant Peter Godley

★ ''The World Is Not Enough'' (1999) .... Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky

★ ''Alice in Wonderland'' (1999) (TV) .... Ned Tweedledum

★ ''Message in a Bottle'' (1999) .... Charlie Toschi

★ ''The Ebb-Tide'' (1998) (TV) .... Capt. Chisholm

★ ''Frogs for Snakes'' (1998) .... Al

★ ''Montana'' (1998) .... The Boss

★ ''Buddy'' (1997) .... Dr. Bill Lintz

★ ''GoldenEye'' (1995) .... Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky

★ ''Cracker'' (1993-1996) (TV) - Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald

★ ''Boswell & Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles'' (1993) .... Dr. Samuel Johnson

★ ''Oh, What a Night'' (1992) .... Todd

★ ''The Pope Must Die'' (1991) .... The Pope

★ ''Triple Bogey on a Par Five Hole'' (1991) .... Steffano Baccardi

★ ''Midnight Breaks'' (1990) .... Fat

★ ''Danny Champion of the World'' (1990) .... Victor Hazell

★ ''Nuns on the Run'' (1990) .... Charlie McManus/Sister Inviolata

★ ''Perfectly Normal'' (1990) .... Alonzo Turner

★ ''Henry V'' (1989) .... Falstaff

★ ''Bert Rigby, You're a Fool'' (1989) ... Sid Temple

★ ''Let It Ride'' (1989) .... Ticket Seller

★ ''The Fruit Machine'' (1988), .... Annabelle

★ ''Tutti Frutti'', BBC (1987) written by John Byrne ... Danny McGlone

★ ''Eat the Rich'' (1987) .... Jeremy

★ ''National Lampoon's European Vacation'' (1985) .... Man in bathroom

★ ''Ghostdance'' (1983) ....

★ ''Krull'' (1983) .... Rhun

References

1. http://www.filmreference.com/film/73/Robbie-Coltrane.html
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4569860.stm
3. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800020819/bio
4. http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=641752004

External links

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★ Interview with Robbie Coltrane at FTPPro.com