Robbie ColtraneRobbie Coltrane (birth name Robert MacMillan, some sources say Anthony MacMillan) (born March 30, 1950) is a Scottish actor. He was born in Rutherglen, Glasgow and educated (sporadically) at Glenalmond school in Perthshire, Glasgow School of Art, and the Moray House College Of Education in Edinburgh. He moved into acting in his early twenties, taking the stage name Coltrane (in tribute to jazz saxophonist John Coltrane) and working in theatre and stand-up comedy. His comic skills brought him roles in the television series The Comic Strip Presents (1982) and he was one of the stars of Laugh? I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee (1984). He soon moved into films, obtaining small roles in a number of movies such as Death Watch (1980), Scrubbers (1983), Absolute Beginners (1986) and Mona Lisa (1986). On television he also appeared in Tutti Frutti (1987), as Samuel Johnson in Blackadder (1987) (a role he later reprised in the more serious Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands (1993)), and in a number of stand-up and sketch comedy shows. He co-starred with Eric Idle in Nuns on the Run (1990), and played the Pope in The Pope Must Die (1991). He also played a would-be private detective obsessed with Humphrey Bogart in the TV play The Bogie Man. His roles went from strength to strength in the 1990s with the TV series Cracker (1993-1996) and a BAFTA award as the stepping stone to parts in bigger films such as the James Bond films Goldeneye (1995) and The World Is Not Enough (1999), as well as giant Rubeus Hagrid in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). Coltrane lives near Glasgow, is married and has two children, and collects vintage cars. This page about Robbie Coltrane includes information from a Wikipedia article. Additional articles about Robbie Coltrane News stories about Robbie Coltrane External links for Robbie Coltrane Videos for Robbie Coltrane Wikis about Robbie Coltrane Discussion Groups about Robbie Coltrane Blogs about Robbie Coltrane Images of Robbie Coltrane |
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Coltrane lives near Glasgow, is married and has two children, and collects vintage cars. On television he also appeared in Tutti Frutti (1987), as Samuel Johnson in Blackadder (1987) (a role he later reprised in the more serious Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands (1993)), and in a number of stand-up and sketch comedy shows. He has a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1735 Vine Street. He soon moved into films, obtaining small roles in a number of movies such as Death Watch (1980), Scrubbers (1983), Absolute Beginners (1986) and Mona Lisa (1986). In 1999 he was voted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. His comic skills brought him roles in the television series The Comic Strip Presents (1982) and he was one of the stars of Laugh? I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee (1984). In 1990, fellow 1950s rock and roll pioneer, Paul Anka, made the speech for Darin's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He moved into acting in his early twenties, taking the stage name Coltrane (in tribute to jazz saxophonist John Coltrane) and working in theatre and stand-up comedy. In accordance with his wishes, his body was donated to the UCLA Medical Center for research purposes. He was born in Rutherglen, Glasgow and educated (sporadically) at Glenalmond school in Perthshire, Glasgow School of Art, and the Moray House College Of Education in Edinburgh. A goodwill Ambassador for the American Heart Association, on December 20, 1973, Darin died during surgery to repair a faulty heart valve. Robbie Coltrane (birth name Robert MacMillan, some sources say Anthony MacMillan) (born March 30, 1950) is a Scottish actor. Darin also started Wayne Newton's career. In 1972 he was well enough to star in his own television variety show, on NBC, which ran for two years, until his health problems finally overcame him. In 1971 he underwent his first heart surgery in an attempt to correct some of the heart damage he had lived with since childhood. At the beginning of the 1970s he continued to act and to record, including at Motown Records. Profoundly affected by Kennedy's assassination, he made two protest albums of alternative rock music. In the mid-1960s, Darin headlined at the major casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada, and became politically active, working on the 1968 Presidential election campaign of Robert Kennedy. Newman M.D. At the Cannes Film Festival in France, where his records—in particular his version of the French hit song "La Mer" (in America in English: "Beyond the Sea")—brought him a wide following, he won the French Film Critics Award for Best Actor. In 1963 he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a shell-shocked soldier in Capt. Asking to be taken seriously, he took on more meaningful movie roles, and in 1962 he won the Golden Globe Award for "Most Promising Male Newcomer", for his role in Pressure Point. In his first film, a romantic comedy designed to capitalize on his popularity with the teenage and young-adult audience, he co-starred with Sandra Dee, whom he married in 1960 and with whom he had one son. He would write music for several films and act in them as well. Driven by the inner urgency of a clock ticking away precious time, Darin turned his attention to motion pictures. "Mack The Knife" has since been honored with a Grammy Hall of Fame Award. For his innovation, Darin was voted the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. 1 on the charts, sold several million copies, and won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year at the Grammy Awards of 1960. The song went to No. Darin gave the tune a vamping jazz-pop interpretation. With financial success came the ability to demand more creative control and, despite the objections of most everyone around him, Darin's immense and diverse talent came to the fore with his next record "Mack the Knife", the classic standard from Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera. In 1959, Bobby Darin recorded "Dream Lover", a complex ballad that would become a multi-million seller and one that is still remembered to this day. This was followed by more hits recorded in the same successful style. There, after three mediocre recordings, his career took off in 1958 when he released his unique rock song "Splish Splash" that became an instant hit, selling more than a million copies. He left Decca to sign with Atlantic Records, where he wrote and arranged music for himself and others. Like other performers, Darin was at first pigeon-holed, recording the banal, meaningless songs popular with record executives at the time. However, this was a time when rock and roll was still in its infancy and the number of capable record producers and arrangers in the field was extremely limited. As was common with ethnic minorities at the time, he changed his Italian name and, in 1956, his agent negotiated a contract for him with Decca Records where Bill Haley & His Comets had risen to fame. Wanting a career in the New York theater, he left college to play small nightclubs around the city with a musical combo. An outstanding student, after graduating from the Bronx High School of Science, Darin attended college on a scholarship. Driven by his poverty and illness, and with an innate talent for musical sounds, by the time he was a teenager he could play several musical instruments. The illness left him with a seriously diseased heart, and he would live with the constant knowledge that his life might end at any moment. Frail as an infant, perhaps from the poverty that resulted in a lack of proper diet and medical attention, at the age of 8 he was stricken with rheumatic fever. The identity of his true father was never publicly disclosed. As a result, his mother had to accept social assistance to take care of her infant son. It was not until he was an adult that he learned his sister Nina, 19 years his senior, was in fact his mother. Darin was born to a poor, working-class family in the Bronx, New York, and his father died a few months before he was born at the height of the Great Depression. However, he is widely respected for being a multi-talented, versatile performer. Bobby Darin (May 14, 1936–December 20, 1973), born Walden Robert Cassotto, was one of the most popular rock and roll American teen idols of the late 1950s. The Happy Ending (1969). Gunfight In Abilene (1967). That Funny Feeling (1965). The Lively Set (1964). Newman M.D. (1963). Capt. If A Man Answers (1962). Pressure Point (1962). State Fair (1962). Come September (1960). "A Simple Song of Freedom" -- 1967. "Mame" -- 1966. "If I Were a Carpenter" -- 1966. "18 Yellow Roses" -- 1963. "You're the Reason I'm Living" -- 1963. "Things" -- 1962. "What'd I Say?" -- 1962. "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" -- 1961. "Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey?" -- 1960. "Beyond The Sea" (the French hit song "La Mer") -- 1960. "Mack the Knife" -- 1959. "Dream Lover" -- 1959. "Plain Jane" -- 1959. "Queen of the Hop" -- 1958. "Splish Splash" -- 1958. |