Robbie Coltrane dies aged 72 🪦

[Pickman's model]

rip. very sad to hear this, a great actor

 

[moochedit]

Never watched cracker or harry potter. Remember him from comedy stuff like comic strip and blackadder and also as the ex-kgb agent in some of the bond movies. Anyway rip

 

[Ax^]

check out his Parkinson interview from the years before nuns on the run comes across like a lovely fella

watch cracker if you never seen it

 

[danny la rouge]

I hope they reshow Tutti Frutti. I loved that. I was in a rockabilly band at the time, touring back of nowhere places, and it was just so true. It took ages to come out on DVD, but when it eventually did I was delighted to acquire it.

 

[Ax^]

 

[danny la rouge]

watch cracker if you never seen it

Ushered in a new type of TV drama. Utterly groundbreaking, and a compelling performance.

 

[danny la rouge]

I see he died in Forth Valley Hospital, Larbert, which I know well. I really hope it wasn’t heart related. They have no cardiologist. They let my Dad down badly.

(And my daughter, if any of you remember that trauma).

 

[cesare]

One of best episodes of Blackadder. RIP, I'm sad

 

[danny la rouge]

Brilliant:

once turning heads at the Ivy restaurant when he shouted at Piers Morgan: “Don’t you f*ing dare come near me if you know what’s good for you, you c*!”

 

[Nine Bob Note]

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[weltweit]

RIP the big man ..

 

[planetgeli]

RIP

Comic Strip for me.

 

[geminisnake]

I hope they reshow Tutti Frutti. I loved that. I was in a rockabilly band at the time, touring back of nowhere places, and it was just so true. It took ages to come out on DVD, but when it eventually did I was delighted to acquire it.

I thought they had lost the tapes for it and that was why it was never reshown. Didn't know it was on dvd. Genuinely don't know why it gets forgotten all the time, it was brilliant.

Genuinely upset about Robbie going as well

 

[danny la rouge]

I thought they had lost the tapes for it and that was why it was never reshown. Didn't know it was on dvd. Genuinely don't know why it gets forgotten all the time, it was brilliant.

I heard it was copyright issues with some of the music.

 

[kittyP]

Really fucking sad to hear this
Crack(er)ing actor, very funny and seemed like a lovely bloke.
Aw man

 

[blossie33]

I hope they reshow Tutti Frutti. I loved that. I was in a rockabilly band at the time, touring back of nowhere places, and it was just so true. It took ages to come out on DVD, but when it eventually did I was delighted to acquire it.

Tutti Frutti is brilliant!
I've got the series on DVD too
I loved him in Cracker as well.

RIP Robbie.

 

[Yossarian]

Very sad news, he was great in Cracker.

I didn't know until now that Robbie Coltrane was a stage name, he was born Anthony Robert McMillan and took the Coltrane name as a tribute to John Coltrane.

 

[danny la rouge]

Very sad news, he was great in Cracker.

I didn't know until now that Robbie Coltrane was a stage name, he was born Anthony Robert McMillan and took the Coltrane name as a tribute to John Coltrane.

Yes, I’d always known that. Or since the 80s anyway. Robbie was a long term jazz fan.

 

[Gerry1time]

Real shame, Cracker was phenomenal. My experience of watching that episode 'To be a somebody' with Robert Carlyle still haunts me to this day.

 

[Edie]

Real shame, Cracker was phenomenal. My experience of watching that episode 'To be a somebody' with Robert Carlyle still haunts me to this day.

Yeah same as. LIV-ERP-double O-L Liverpool FC.

 

[T & P]

Very sad news. I didn’t realise he was 72- I assumed early 60s. Thanks for the memories

 

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[Mumbles274]

Ssd news. First time seeing him would be the young ones and then comic strip.



Long clip but worth it for RC at the end

 

[The39thStep]

He lived in Cricklewood for a while and during the Miners Strike one of my mates who was postman and delivered his mail knocked on his door and asked him if he would compere a benefit for the Miners which he agreed to . Robbie arrived somewhat tired and emotional , did a stirling job but then descended into a row with some feminists over ‘ironic’ humour , bought everyone a drink , fell off a table and had to be ushered into a cab still arguing with the feminists . Told the postman he couldn’t remember any of it but that he had heard it had gone well and was always keen to help out again .
Fair play to the man

 

[Sue]

watch cracker if you never seen it

Available on the ITV catchup thing at the moment (was watching some of it just the other week).

 

[weepiper]

This is shite news. I loved him in Tutti Frutti, Cracker and Blackadder especially.

 

[friedaweed]

He lived in Cricklewood for a while and during the Miners Strike one of my mates who was postman and delivered his mail knocked on his door and asked him if he would compere a benefit for the Miners which he agreed to . Robbie arrived somewhat tired and emotional , did a stirling job but then descended into a row with some feminists over ‘ironic’ humour , bought everyone a drink , fell off a table and had to be ushered into a cab still arguing with the feminists . Told the postman he couldn’t remember any of it but that he had heard it had gone well and was always keen to help out again .
Fair play to the man

A nice way to remember someone who clearly lived life...

 

[weepiper]

Loved Mason Boyne too.

 

[platinumsage]

I could have sworn he had a brief appearance in an episode of Dr Who in the 80s, whereupon I first learnt his name as a child, but I can’t find any trace of it.