ROBBIE Coltrane has died age 72 after a long health battle that left him wheelchair-bound and "in pain 24 hours a day". Coltrane, who is best known for playing the beloved Hogwarts gamekeeper Hagrid in Harry Potter, died in hospital in Scotland.
The 72-year-old had osteoarthritis, which saw him bound to a wheelchair in his later years and in "constant pain". In 2020, Coltrane told the DailyExpress: “I was fighting pain 24 hours a day when I was in National Treasure and Great Expectations. “I had no cartilage in my knee.
It was bone on bone.” The actor was so debilitated he couldn't walk unassisted, and said he wouldn’t wish such pain “on [his] worst enemy".
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