Showing posts with label Blackadder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blackadder. Show all posts

Friday, 14 October 2022

Hagrid bows out

And another piece of my children's childhoods falls away. 

To them, Robbie Coltrane is forever Hagrid, from the Harry Potter movies - although younger daughter is also re-watching a 1999 version of Alice in Wonderland in his memory. 

I remember him for a string of character roles, long before he played the half-giant at Hogwarts, and for two memorable turns in Blackadder. Here's one of them, as Samuel Johnson in Blackadder 3: