Robby Coltrane dies, aged 72

Robby Coltrane, famous actor, who played the half-giant Hagrid in the Harry Potter movies, has died, aged 72. Coltrane, a Scottish actor, also played in the James Bond films "GoldenEye" and "The World is not enough", and the British series "Cracker". No details about the death were revealed. He won the British Academy Television Award for the Series "Tutti Frutti". The role of the Harry Potter character Hagrid made him very famous. Coltrane recalled reading Harry Potter to his children: "If you're an actor, you have to do the voices. The children expect it. No monotones allowed."Everybody in the world would like a really big, huge, strong, good man on their side, simple as that. That's the attraction of Superman and these things," he said. "Hagrid was always obviously the good guy, wasn't he?"