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Post by Wynn Chester on Oct 14, 2022 16:58:47 GMT
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Post by McCann on Oct 14, 2022 17:06:19 GMT
He will be known for lots, but he had a memorable role in Minder as coiffeur to the Syrup of Figs and Albert Chisholm.
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Post by ontheslate on Oct 14, 2022 17:12:03 GMT
A great actor Rip
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Post by AlanH on Oct 14, 2022 17:21:38 GMT
This is one that's very tough to take. When I saw the name in the obituary section my reaction was expletive filled...
Great in so many things. The Comic Strip Presents..., Tutti Frutti, Cracker, Goldeneye, Blackadder, Alfresco... The list goes on. Of course the news reports will concentrate on Harry blinking Potter, but I guess that's inevitable.
Massively talented and gone too soon. RIP.
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Post by metro1962 on Oct 14, 2022 18:40:32 GMT
He was brilliant in Mona Lisa but will always be Fitz for me.  RIP Robbie.  |
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Post by ltd on Oct 14, 2022 18:54:14 GMT
I think one of the first things I saw him do was Mason Boyne, as a left-footer of Irish extraction it had me in stitches. The one eyed pirate radio DJ actually in the Young Ones' radio was another that made me laugh, "We're scuppered!". So versatile though.
RIP Big Man
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Post by joshmel on Oct 14, 2022 19:37:22 GMT
RIP Robbie. A fine actor. His complete Scottishness struck a chord with me.
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Post by felixdeburgh on Oct 14, 2022 19:57:43 GMT
Terrible news. I remember him from the early days of Channel 4 and of course, The Young Ones, when he appeared as a bouncer preventing Rik from getting into his own bedroom ("What have you done? Turned it into a roller disco or something?"  ) as well as a doctor examining a chocolate eclair and the aforementioned Captain Blood. Whenever I think of him, I either think of him as Fitz in Cracker or in this scene from Supergrass, when film crew attitudes to health and safety were more laissez-fare than they would be now: RIP. |
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Post by gustav on Oct 14, 2022 20:08:58 GMT
Cracker seems a long time ago now but watched them all with great attention in those days. As everyone says thoough he was in so much. Very sad.
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Post by jjmolloy on Oct 14, 2022 22:32:47 GMT
Very shocked to hear this, he seemed one of those indestructible robust people that would go on forever. The Met should have been hunting him for stealing that scene in What Makes Shamy Run. I recall he did a series about 7/8 years ago driving the length of the country in a classic car. Excellent. RIP Big Man. Robbie Coltrane – a life in pictures | Culture | The Guardian |
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Post by AlanH on Oct 14, 2022 22:37:18 GMT
I think I'm going to have to rectify the embarrassing fact that I've never seen all of Cracker... Feel a tribute viewing coming on...
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Post by brinylonshirt on Oct 14, 2022 22:42:12 GMT
A great and unique talent. He drove a pink Thunderbird convertible in the 1980s. RIP
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Post by mybodyguard on Oct 15, 2022 1:44:20 GMT
Bond, Henry V, Cracker, and too many others to name. Always entertaining and memorable. RIP
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Post by Arch Stanton on Oct 15, 2022 7:35:52 GMT
Terrible news. I remember him from the early days of Channel 4 and of course, The Young Ones, when he appeared as a bouncer preventing Rik from getting into his own bedroom ("What have you done? Turned it into a roller disco or something?" ) as well as a doctor examining a chocolate eclair and the aforementioned Captain Blood. Whenever I think of him, I either think of him as Fitz in Cracker or in this scene from Supergrass, when film crew attitudes to health and safety were more laissez-fare than they would be now: RIP. That scene from Supergrass was immediately the one that came to mind as his stand out scene. |
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Post by Arch Stanton on Oct 15, 2022 7:39:30 GMT
Did not expect this awful news.
He was such a distinctive looking, larger than life presence in films and tv he could hardly be missed and was instantly recognisable, no matter how small his bit part in his earlier productions.
A genuine household name and talent.
RIP Robbie.
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Post by coyote on Oct 15, 2022 9:45:14 GMT
Tutti Frutti was one of my favourite series as a teenager, and of course I enjoyed his performance as Samuel Johnson in Blackadder III and I’d forgotten he was in the Christmas Carol episode too. Never seen any Cracker or Harry Potter so all those references in the media are lost on me. RIP
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Post by artyboy1973 on Oct 15, 2022 10:46:01 GMT
RIP Robbie Coltrane. He was great as Fitz on Cracker which was a brilliant nail biting drama series. He also starred alongside the late Bob Hoskins in Mona Lisa. On one of his comedy shows in the late 1980s he did a St Trinians spoof where he played a brilliant impersonation of Miss Fritton.
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Post by ltd on Oct 15, 2022 12:47:55 GMT
That scene from Supergrass was immediately the one that came to mind as his stand out scene. That must have taken some nerve, the waves hitting him side on look pretty bloody powerful. He doesn't even flinch though. |
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Post by Arch Stanton on Oct 15, 2022 13:15:25 GMT
That scene from Supergrass was immediately the one that came to mind as his stand out scene. That must have taken some nerve, the waves hitting him side on look pretty bl*ody powerful. He doesn't even flinch though. Yeah, it’s a fabulous scene. Had some actor done that in some “revered” production and not just in a comic strip presents comedy film people would be gushing over it worse than those waves on the breaker. |
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Post by daz on Oct 15, 2022 13:32:38 GMT
Was a real shame to read that one, but he has been ill for a number of years now.
His best role for me was as Danny McGlone in the excellent Tutti Frutti, but he was always good in whatever he appeared in from major roles to cameos.
RIP Robbie
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Post by yoyopickles on Oct 16, 2022 7:25:46 GMT
I remember him in a 1988 ITV T.v movie called THE FRUIT MACHINE, where he played a character named Annabelle, who was a transvestite owner of a gay night club!
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Post by yoyopickles on Oct 16, 2022 7:26:04 GMT
I remember him in a 1988 ITV T.v movie called THE FRUIT MACHINE, where he played a character named Annabelle, who was a transvestite owner of a gay night club! R I p dear chap |
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Post by chopper on Oct 16, 2022 19:07:09 GMT
He will be known for lots, but he had a memorable role in Minder as coiffeur to the Syrup of Figs and Albert Chisholm. Indeed, played his part in one of the very finest episodes of Minder . RIP Mr Coltrane |
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Post by billymedhurst on Oct 19, 2022 15:49:03 GMT
Very sad to read this.
I remember him in Minder as the syrup purveyor, very funny. 'Burt Reynolds'
Enjoyed this at the time.
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Post by Portland Road on Oct 21, 2022 22:03:03 GMT
In his early days he often appeared with the 'Comic Strip' actors in their various projects, though he was to that genre what David Bowie was to 'glam rock' - a part of it, but much, much more as well.
R.I.P. Robbie Coltrane.
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Post by wayne2467 on Oct 25, 2022 20:10:54 GMT
A great presence in every thing I saw him in. He will be missed☹️
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Post by westldner on Nov 1, 2022 15:05:21 GMT
RIP Robbie. I was just watching the film Mona Lisa the other day. He took a good movie in that film.
I'm a bit surprised he went at aged 73. A stocky guy like him doesn't live until that age. Just shows he really was the tough able to handle himself guy that you see in the camera, that offers good advice to the lead characters.
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Post by metro1962 on Nov 1, 2022 15:53:01 GMT
RIP Robbie. I was just watching the film Mona Lisa the other day. He took a good movie in that film. When Bob Hoskins is watching you know what on tv* and Robbie's character says "Channel 4, is it?" to him still cracks me up  and it made a lot of people laugh in the cinema too. Strange this forum does not allow that word beginning with a P and ending with an N. |
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Post by Arch Stanton on Nov 2, 2022 0:42:07 GMT
I was watching Nuns On The Run tonight, I just happened to catch some on tv.
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Post by ontheslate on Nov 2, 2022 7:30:51 GMT
I was watching Nuns On The Run tonight, I just happened to catch some on tv. Not a very popular film with critics or cinema goers at the time ,but I actually quite like it and will watch it if it’s on tv. On my YouTube feed Coltrane’s documentary series he done for channel4 comes up. very interesting Coltrane’s planes and automobiles his eagerness and interest really comes through. |
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) as well as a doctor examining a chocolate eclair and the aforementioned Captain Blood. Whenever I think of him, I either think of him as Fitz in Cracker or in this scene from Supergrass, when film crew attitudes to health and safety were more laissez-fare than they would be now:
and it made a lot of people laugh in the cinema too.