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'Hagrid' actor Robbie Coltrane dies at 72

Actor Robbie Coltrane attends a media preview of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter-Diagon Alley at the Universal Orlando Resort in Florida inn June 2014. (Reuters File Photo)

LONDON: Robbie Coltrane, the larger-than-life Scottish actor who played the beloved half-giant Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, has died at the age of 72, his agent said.

Coltrane’s more than four-decade career ranged from roles in the James Bond films GoldenEye and The World Is Not Enough to the lead in the 1990s British TV series Cracker, as the criminal psychologist Dr Edward “Fitz” Fitzgerald.

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