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Robbie Coltrane, best known for playing Hagrid in the ‘Harry Potter’ films, dies at 72

Robbie Coltrane, the Scottish actor who played the lovable half-giant Rubeus Hagrid in all eight “Harry Potter” films, has died at age 72.

Coltrane — who also played a crime boss in two James Bond movies, 1995′s “GoldenEye” and 1999′s “The World is Not Enough” — died Friday at a hospital in Scotland, according to his agent, Belinda Wright.

No cause of death was given.

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