Going to watch Cracker tonight in honour of this legend!!
Well, there goes another part of my childhood.
RIP Robbie. Nobody could’ve played Hagrid like him. Also, this might be a bit obscure, but does anybody remember him playing Tweedledee and Tweedledum in a 90s live action Alice in Wonderland adaption? What a guy.
That is sad news. Another legend gone and far too soon.
Oh no! Damn, another legend gone. I have to be honest, but I had no idea he was even that old. I suppose it makes sense as he’s been iconic for such a long time, but damn what a shame to lose him already.
RIP you brought joy to be it through laughs or shock to so many people.
Nah, Jessica Fletcher AND Hagrid gone in the same week? Sad times.
RIP
His role as Cracker was absolutely iconic. such a brilliant role.
Cracker was class as was nuns on the run r.i.p big man
Gutting, grew up with him as Hagrid. Absolutely perfect for the role, will definitely be missed
Allow me to be the first to offer my deepest contrafibularities. I am anaspetic, frasmotic and compunctuous at this news.
Seemed like one of the nicest people to ever go on Movie screens and I’m going to go watch the first two Harry Potters and likely bawl my eyes out.
“There’s no Hogwarts without you, Hagrid.”
R.I.P.
Robbie has done some amazing stuff over the years but the one that sticks most in my memory is the epic walk out onto the sea wall in The Supergrass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX51mwWyVFY
One hell of a talent.
Cracker was out of this world.
He was absolutely superb in Cracker sad to see another one go
Ach that’s terrible news to read just before bed.
Obviously, an icon to global audiences as Hagrid, and there really couldn’t have been a better man for that role.
I also fondly remember his encounters with Pierce Brosnan’s 007, in Cracker, and as an all time great Samuel Johnson in Blackadder III
Sausage!? SAUSaaaaaaagggeeee!!!????
RIP, legend
You know, for years I had the fear that Hagrid would be killed off in the war against Voldemort. Glad that never happened.
RIP.
Cracker was brilliant. I watched one on Sunday and it still holds up. He’s a bit like Bernard cribbins (also lost recently) and is in absolutely everything. You will be watching something and then he will crop up and steal the show. RIP to the legend.
I’ll remember him for ‘nim nim nim’ and ‘one ponis and two testiclods’
RIP. Nobody else could have brought Hagrid to life like he did. He will be missed.
Man that makes his little speech at the end of the HP reunion hit so much harder. Gonna bring tears next time I watch it
For years I thought he was already dead, even as they continued to release Harry potter movies (it somehow just didn’t register). About five years ago I discovered, to no one else’s surprise, he was in fact still alive. *Hello, darkness, my old friend.* The Coltrane has left the station for the last time.
So sad, really loved him as Hagrid. Seemed like an amazing person as well. What a lengend. RIP
As I am old, I remember him in Tutti Frutti in the late 80s with Emma Thompson and Richard Wilson. Great actor.
I met RC when I worked in his local coop. Really warm and friendly guy. He was filming the 3rd or 4th Harry Potter at the time and had recently appeared on Frasier.
Very politely humoured the film ramblings of a dorky teen in his local store while just trying to get home with his rum and cigs. Top guy.
No, he was such an icon! I’m going to have to watch the Pope must die again
**LIV – ERP – DOUBLE O – L LIVERPOOL FC**
My lasting memory not just of Robert Carlyle but also Cracker.
Inseparable in my TV watching history
Don’t forget he was Dr Carlisle in the Young Ones’s.
Does anyone remember him in comic strip presents playing as Charles Bronson playing as Ken Livingston in ‘GLC’ against Jennifer Saunders totally bonkers role as an evil cybernetic Margaret Thatcher? That was a wild ride for little me in the 80’s.
Edit: apparently 1990
Reading about his later life living as something of a hermit in a rented barn in hills outside of Glasgow. Apparently he had osteoarthritis which left him confined to a wheelchair. I’ll always remember him as the lead in National Treasure alongside the great Julie Walters, was a really interesting show during the operation Yewtree times. I’d recommend it if you haven’t seen it.
Also his various appearances in ‘The Comic Strip’, maybe most notably as Ken Livingston 😂
🙁
Hagris, Eddie, Doughnut. RIP 🙁
(The last one, if you know, you know)
He was definitely one of the best cast characters in Harry Potter. His delivery of “Yer a wizard, ‘Arry.” was perfect and is now an iconic line in cinema.
I first saw him in the film ‘the fruit machine’ a good British coming of age/thriller.
No love for nuns on the run in here? That was one of the earliest things I remember seeing him in
Time to rewatch ‘Ink and Incapability’
Dr. Samuel Johnson : [places two manuscripts on the table, but picks up the top one] Here it is, sir. The very cornerstone of English scholarship. This book, sir, contains every word in our beloved language.
Blackadder : Every single one, sir?
Dr. Samuel Johnson : Every single word, sir!
Blackadder : Oh, well, in that case, sir, I hope you will not object if I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic contrafibularities.
Dr. Samuel Johnson : What?
Blackadder : “contrafibularities”, sir? It is a common word down our way.
Dr. Samuel Johnson : Damn!
[writes in the book]
Blackadder : Oh, I’m sorry, sir. I’m anaspeptic, phrasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation.
Last night I watched a couple of “The Comic Strip presents….” ,which just reminded me how good a comic actor he was
RIP Mr Coltrane.
Take it this was shortly after shaking hands with Liz Truss.
Very sad news. 72 is too young.
Rest in peace, Robbie.
Very sad news about his death RIP hagridg you were great in harry potter and postive thoughts to his family ⚘🐻
Fuck. Forth Valley hospital is a very short drive from me.
I had no idea.
Loved Robbie in everything I saw him in, always seemed like a funny, lovely, intelligent, and warm person.
He will be sadly missed.
Cracker was amazing and he was great in it.
But I also remember him from all the great comedy stuff he did in the 80s as part of the alternative comedy crowd.
Don’t see what bringing his race into this has to do with it
This guy was my childhood.
I cannot remember how many times I played the Philosophers Stone on my tv as a kid. I ended up getting all the movies as a bundle but my first was the first movie, absolute legend in other shows/movies as well. Upsetting, rest in piece gentle giant!
Comic Strip, Blackadder, Cracker, Bond, Potter…this man was a massive part of my life growing up and still is to this day. RIP Robbie, thank you for everything ❤️
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Going to watch Cracker tonight in honour of this legend!!
Well, there goes another part of my childhood.
RIP Robbie. Nobody could’ve played Hagrid like him. Also, this might be a bit obscure, but does anybody remember him playing Tweedledee and Tweedledum in a 90s live action Alice in Wonderland adaption? What a guy.
That is sad news. Another legend gone and far too soon.
Oh no! Damn, another legend gone. I have to be honest, but I had no idea he was even that old. I suppose it makes sense as he’s been iconic for such a long time, but damn what a shame to lose him already.
RIP you brought joy to be it through laughs or shock to so many people.
https://youtu.be/pudHrUqy2I0
Well, this sums it up perfectly
Nah, Jessica Fletcher AND Hagrid gone in the same week? Sad times.
RIP
His role as Cracker was absolutely iconic. such a brilliant role.
Cracker was class as was nuns on the run r.i.p big man
Gutting, grew up with him as Hagrid. Absolutely perfect for the role, will definitely be missed
Allow me to be the first to offer my deepest contrafibularities. I am anaspetic, frasmotic and compunctuous at this news.
Seemed like one of the nicest people to ever go on Movie screens and I’m going to go watch the first two Harry Potters and likely bawl my eyes out.
“There’s no Hogwarts without you, Hagrid.”
R.I.P.
Robbie has done some amazing stuff over the years but the one that sticks most in my memory is the epic walk out onto the sea wall in The Supergrass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX51mwWyVFY
One hell of a talent.
Cracker was out of this world.
He was absolutely superb in Cracker sad to see another one go
Ach that’s terrible news to read just before bed.
Obviously, an icon to global audiences as Hagrid, and there really couldn’t have been a better man for that role.
I also fondly remember his encounters with Pierce Brosnan’s 007, in Cracker, and as an all time great Samuel Johnson in Blackadder III
Sausage!? SAUSaaaaaaagggeeee!!!????
RIP, legend
You know, for years I had the fear that Hagrid would be killed off in the war against Voldemort. Glad that never happened.
RIP.
Cracker was brilliant. I watched one on Sunday and it still holds up. He’s a bit like Bernard cribbins (also lost recently) and is in absolutely everything. You will be watching something and then he will crop up and steal the show. RIP to the legend.
I’ll remember him for ‘nim nim nim’ and ‘one ponis and two testiclods’
RIP. Nobody else could have brought Hagrid to life like he did. He will be missed.
Man that makes his little speech at the end of the HP reunion hit so much harder. Gonna bring tears next time I watch it
For years I thought he was already dead, even as they continued to release Harry potter movies (it somehow just didn’t register). About five years ago I discovered, to no one else’s surprise, he was in fact still alive. *Hello, darkness, my old friend.* The Coltrane has left the station for the last time.
[My favourite role of his](https://youtu.be/L8oV4f2iRTI)
RIP big man.
Sad news to hear about,One of uk’s talented actors gone.RIP Robbie.
This was January – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pudHrUqy2I0
So sad, really loved him as Hagrid. Seemed like an amazing person as well. What a lengend. RIP
As I am old, I remember him in Tutti Frutti in the late 80s with Emma Thompson and Richard Wilson. Great actor.
I met RC when I worked in his local coop. Really warm and friendly guy. He was filming the 3rd or 4th Harry Potter at the time and had recently appeared on Frasier.
Very politely humoured the film ramblings of a dorky teen in his local store while just trying to get home with his rum and cigs. Top guy.
No, he was such an icon! I’m going to have to watch the Pope must die again
**LIV – ERP – DOUBLE O – L LIVERPOOL FC**
My lasting memory not just of Robert Carlyle but also Cracker.
Inseparable in my TV watching history
Don’t forget he was Dr Carlisle in the Young Ones’s.
Does anyone remember him in comic strip presents playing as Charles Bronson playing as Ken Livingston in ‘GLC’ against Jennifer Saunders totally bonkers role as an evil cybernetic Margaret Thatcher? That was a wild ride for little me in the 80’s.
Edit: apparently 1990
Reading about his later life living as something of a hermit in a rented barn in hills outside of Glasgow. Apparently he had osteoarthritis which left him confined to a wheelchair. I’ll always remember him as the lead in National Treasure alongside the great Julie Walters, was a really interesting show during the operation Yewtree times. I’d recommend it if you haven’t seen it.
Also his various appearances in ‘The Comic Strip’, maybe most notably as Ken Livingston 😂
🙁
Hagris, Eddie, Doughnut. RIP 🙁
(The last one, if you know, you know)
He was definitely one of the best cast characters in Harry Potter. His delivery of “Yer a wizard, ‘Arry.” was perfect and is now an iconic line in cinema.
I first saw him in the film ‘the fruit machine’ a good British coming of age/thriller.
No love for nuns on the run in here? That was one of the earliest things I remember seeing him in
Time to rewatch ‘Ink and Incapability’
Dr. Samuel Johnson : [places two manuscripts on the table, but picks up the top one] Here it is, sir. The very cornerstone of English scholarship. This book, sir, contains every word in our beloved language.
Blackadder : Every single one, sir?
Dr. Samuel Johnson : Every single word, sir!
Blackadder : Oh, well, in that case, sir, I hope you will not object if I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic contrafibularities.
Dr. Samuel Johnson : What?
Blackadder : “contrafibularities”, sir? It is a common word down our way.
Dr. Samuel Johnson : Damn!
[writes in the book]
Blackadder : Oh, I’m sorry, sir. I’m anaspeptic, phrasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation.
Last night I watched a couple of “The Comic Strip presents….” ,which just reminded me how good a comic actor he was
RIP Mr Coltrane.
Take it this was shortly after shaking hands with Liz Truss.
Very sad news. 72 is too young.
Rest in peace, Robbie.
Very sad news about his death RIP hagridg you were great in harry potter and postive thoughts to his family ⚘🐻
Fuck. Forth Valley hospital is a very short drive from me.
I had no idea.
Loved Robbie in everything I saw him in, always seemed like a funny, lovely, intelligent, and warm person.
He will be sadly missed.
Cracker was amazing and he was great in it.
But I also remember him from all the great comedy stuff he did in the 80s as part of the alternative comedy crowd.
Don’t see what bringing his race into this has to do with it
This guy was my childhood.
I cannot remember how many times I played the Philosophers Stone on my tv as a kid. I ended up getting all the movies as a bundle but my first was the first movie, absolute legend in other shows/movies as well. Upsetting, rest in piece gentle giant!
Comic Strip, Blackadder, Cracker, Bond, Potter…this man was a massive part of my life growing up and still is to this day. RIP Robbie, thank you for everything ❤️