# Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid) - Dead at 72 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [October 14, 2022, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbie-coltrane-hagrid-dead-at-72/973262 "2022-10-14T17:34:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbie-coltrane-hagrid-dead-at-72/973262/41 "2022-10-16T02:21:44Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I haven’t read a cause of death. I know he suffered from osteoarthritis and was in pain 24 hours a day. People have killed themselves for that; but I can’t imagine Robbie Coltrane doing it. imdb simply says “following a period of ill health”. Clearly not what my cousin and I have come to term “Hollywood Disease” for the frequency with which imdb lists the cause of death as “undisclosed”. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbie-coltrane-hagrid-dead-at-72/973262/42 "2022-10-16T03:01:16Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > This is the one you want – that starts in 1993. You are the best. 👍 ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbie-coltrane-hagrid-dead-at-72/973262/43 "2022-10-16T09:30:03Z")
I will always remember him as Eddie Fitzgerald. “If a priest isn’t worthy of being a priest, am I still absolved?” Must be tough always being the smartest person in the room. You’ve gotta see Cracker, people. The UK version, not the American one. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbie-coltrane-hagrid-dead-at-72/973262/44 "2022-10-16T11:00:36Z")
“He broke the Seal of Confession. That’s in the Top 20 list of sins. Higher than buggering the Pope.” ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbie-coltrane-hagrid-dead-at-72/973262/45 "2022-10-16T14:39:39Z")
A thousand times yes! ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbie-coltrane-hagrid-dead-at-72/973262/46 "2022-10-16T15:14:41Z")
You might like to keep an eye out for the comedy/drama _[Tutti Frutti](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0092471/)_, where he starred with Emma Thompson. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbie-coltrane-hagrid-dead-at-72/973262/47 "2022-10-16T17:11:28Z")
My son told me that he was on a reunion show with most of the Potter cast and he said he was old and probably going to die soon. All the “kids” were properly horrified and chastised him. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbie-coltrane-hagrid-dead-at-72/973262/48 "2022-10-16T22:14:02Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Nitpick: Fitz. > > I know you meant that. Nope. Senior Moment. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbie-coltrane-hagrid-dead-at-72/973262/49 "2022-10-16T23:31:23Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > > > This is the one you want – that starts in 1993. > > You are the best. 👍 please tell me it did not actually take you this long to figure that out ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbie-coltrane-hagrid-dead-at-72/973262/50 "2022-10-17T00:29:30Z")
Oh no but I felt it was worth repeating. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbie-coltrane-hagrid-dead-at-72/973262/51 "2022-10-18T17:46:46Z")
What are y’all talking about? * * * * * * If you have a hankering to be emotionally battered, watch the episode after the first one of season 1, divided (like Gaul) into three parts by Britbox. > **["Cracker" To Say I Love You: Part 1 (TV Episode 1993) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0394430/?ref_=ttep_ep3)** > > To Say I Love You: Part 1: Directed by Andy Wilson. With Susan Lynch, Andrew Tiernan, Robbie Coltrane, Danny Green. Sean Kerrigan and Tina Brien, two of society's rejects, are drawn together and will do anything to stay together forever, even murder.... [Here’s the Amazon Prime link.](https://smile.amazon.com/Say-Love-You-Part/dp/B0182SUQ8W/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2MCMKP9JAYOD6&keywords=cracker+on+prime+video&qid=1666114846&sprefix=cracker+on+prime+video%2Caps%2C177&sr=8-3) Dear God, this was intense. I watched all three parts in one sitting late at night. Not conducive to a restful night’s sleep. Susan Lynch has the most hideously ugly, carnivorous mouth I’ve ever seen on a woman. The red lipstick really accentuates the vampire effect. But she’s good. For a Bad Girl. As usual, we observe Fitz’ personal life spiraling out of control. He attends a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, and after pulling out a deck of cards, he has all the recovering gamblers jumping off the wagon and slapping down bets. BUT you will take note that when he steps into the cell with the stuttering, stammering, raging Bad Boy maniac, Fitz approaches him gently, absorbs his energy, “gets” him _immediately_, and calms him down. _“You don’t stutter when you’re angry, right?”_ This kind of scene is what makes the character so charismatic. BTW, for those who notice such things, there are a lot of dogs in this episode (you’ll find out why-- from an artistic pov-- at the end), but nothing happens to any of them. This was the early 90s, after all and some kinds of violence were still off limits. Today, the dogs would be killed or at least horribly mutilated for the purpose of producing an adrenaline rush of some kind (in my case, _fury_) in the viewer. ---
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbie-coltrane-hagrid-dead-at-72/973262/52 "2022-10-18T19:11:00Z")
> [@TwoCarrotSnowman](#): > > the “Dr Johnson” episode of Blackadder. This was a very, very good impersonation of a historical personage. I can’t imagine Johnson without seeing Coltrane in my head. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbie-coltrane-hagrid-dead-at-72/973262/53 "2022-10-19T01:38:10Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Susan Lynch has the most hideously ugly, carnivorous mouth I’ve ever seen on a woman. The red lipstick really accentuates the vampire effect. But she’s good. For a Bad Girl. She’s done a lot of acting since **Cracker** (e.g. **Unforgotten** in 2021) and is _much_ better looking than she was in Cracker. And she was indeed VERY good in Cracker. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robbie-coltrane-hagrid-dead-at-72/973262.md?page=2)