Nuns on the Run (with Coltrane playing a fleeing gangster in disguise, 1990) and the Comic Strip Presents spin-off The Pope Must Die (as the pontiff, 1991) were disappointing comedies, but Henry V (1989), Kenneth Branagh’s directorial debut with Coltrane as Falstaff, signalled his switch to drama. The 1980s also saw Coltrane playing Dr Samuel Johnson in an episode of Blackadder the Third (1987) and starting to get recognised in films, playing Scipione Borghese, 16th-century Italian art collector, cardinal and closet gay, in Caravaggio (1986) and Bob Hoskins’s garage-owning friend Thomas in Mona Lisa (1986). W owiadczeniu jego agentka Belinda Wright potwierdzia, e aktor zmar w szpitalu niedaleko Falkirk w Szkocji. Coltrane’s character, Danny McGlone, joins the washed-up group to replace his dead brother, with squabbles and personal disasters following, all portrayed with dark comedy. wiatow saw przyniosa mu rola Rubeusa Hagrida w serii filmów o Harrym Potterze (20012011) Nie yje aktor Robbie Coltrane, znany gównie z roli gajowego Hogwartu Hagrida. He edged towards more dramatic roles as the star of Tutti Frutti, John Byrne’s 1987 Bafta-winning series about The Majestics, a fictional Scottish rock’n’roll band. He stayed on in London, where Ben Elton and others were assaulting the “old” comedy of Benny Hill and others by bringing a new breed of humour to audiences on stage and screen.ĭespite a small straight acting role as a bartender in Barrie Keeffe’s TV play Waterloo Sunset (1979), Coltrane joined this new band of comedians to become a regular in groundbreaking sketch shows such as Alfresco (with Ben Elton, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, 1983-4), the second series of A Kick Up the Eighties (with Rik Mayall and Tracey Ullman, 1984), Laugh? I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee (with John Sessions, 1984) and 1984-7 episodes of The Lenny Henry Show. Coltrane played Jack Hogg, based on Byrne, who had risen from an apprentice mixing colours in the slab room to be a designer.įor the second in the trilogy, Cuttin’ a Rug (1979), Coltrane was back in the slab room as Spanky.Īlthough he never appeared in Still Life, the third play, he made his London stage debut (Hampstead Theatre, 1980) in Threads, a rewritten version of Cuttin’ a Rug. He then gained experience touring universities with San Francisco-based San Quentin Drama Workshop (1974-5) before returning to the Traverse, where he made his mark in The Slab Boys (1978), set in a carpet factory, which became the first of John Byrne’s trilogy about working-class Scots, combining comedy with pathos. Although he went on to study art at Moray House College of Education, Edinburgh, aiming to teach, Coltrane’s performances in pubs came to the attention of actors Bill Paterson and Alex Norton, who in 1974 pointed him in the direction of the city’s Traverse Theatre, where he started acting as Robbie Coltrane, taking his name from the jazz saxophonist John Coltrane.
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