Robbie Coltrane, who played Hagrid in the 'Harry Potter' films, has died at 72

• Robbie Coltrane has died at 72 years old, Deadline reported.
• Coltrane was most well known for his role as Hagrid in the "Harry Potter" film series.

Robbie Coltrane, the actor known for playing Hagrid in the "Harry Potter" movie franchise died on Friday, Deadline reported.

He was 72 years old.

Coltrane's agent told Deadline the actor — who also starred in two "James Bond" films — died in a hospital near his home in Larbert, Scotland.

Representatives for Coltrane did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

Before starring in the "Harry Potter" franchise, Coltrane was already a beloved actor on both sides of the Atlantic.

The Scottish actor began his career in comedy alongside well-known names Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, and Emma Thompson in the 1980s British sketch series "Alfresco."

He followed that in 1987 by starring alongside Thompson in the BBC miniseries "Tutti Frutti" as the lead singer of a rock band. The role would bring Coltrane his first taste of stardom as he was nominated for his first British Academy Television Award.

In the 1990s, he became beloved on British TV when he led the crime series "Cracker," playing a criminal psychologist. He won the British Academy Television Award for best actor for three consecutive years.

The actor also found himself scoring movie roles in movies like "Mona Lisa" opposite Bob Hoskins, Kenneth Branagh's "Henry V," and opposite Eric Idle in the comedy "Nuns on the Run."

In the late 1990s, he got his first taste of being in a blockbuster when he starred as Russian gangster Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky in two James Bond movies: 1995's "GoldenEye" and 1999's "The World's Not Enough."

Coltrane then found worldwide notoriety when he was cast as half-human, half-giant Rubeus Hagrid in the "Harry Potter" movies.

In 2006, Coltrane was awarded the Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2006 New Year Honours for his work in the arts.