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Post by thechase on Oct 14, 2022 12:05:07 GMT -5
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Post by Beets by Schrute on Oct 14, 2022 12:10:40 GMT -5
Damn, this is a rough one. He said earlier this year for the Harry Potter reunion:
“The legacy of the movies is that my children's generation will show them to their children ... So you could be watching it in 50 year's time, easily ... I'll not be here, sadly ... but Hagrid will, yes."
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Post by Duke Cameron on Oct 14, 2022 12:56:53 GMT -5
I think the first place I saw him was in the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough as Valentin Zukovsky, a role he had reprised from Goldeneye.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Oct 14, 2022 13:08:55 GMT -5
RIP Robbie. Sucks to hear, my mom loves him
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Post by dirtyoldman on Oct 14, 2022 13:19:16 GMT -5
He'll always be Edward 'Fitz' Fitzgerald to me
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Post by darbus alan on Oct 14, 2022 13:48:21 GMT -5
His mealymouthed support of JKR's transphobia tainted him some in my eyes. Still, I loved his performance as Hagrid. RIP
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Oct 14, 2022 13:49:31 GMT -5
Not condoning anything he said but it’s not the time to have that conversation.
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Post by dirtyoldman on Oct 14, 2022 13:50:10 GMT -5
I think the trans/GC debate needs to go the same way as politics and religion on this board. That's all I'm gonna say about that.
Anyway, nuns on the run was the first British film I ever saw in the cinema which is weird as everything was American. And it was bloody funny.
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Post by King Boo on Oct 14, 2022 14:09:16 GMT -5
First off, stop the fighting.
Second, in threads regarding someone's death, if you don't care for the person that is 1,000,000% your prerogative and right, but then refrain from posting in said thread. There are times and places for conversations about these kinds of things, but an RIP thread is not one of them.
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Oct 14, 2022 14:09:48 GMT -5
well if anyone can be called "a giant" in the industry of acting ... i know him more from his borlerline LEGENDARY scottish comedy series laugh, i nearly paid my licence fee and a kick up the eighties, of course the more mainstream like saturday night live, the comic strip and his bouncer in the young ones ... and a not-too-insignificant role in blackadder his acting chops were pretty big too, and just showed his range in TUTTI FRUTTI the nineties was his more serious era, and of course CRACKER will always come up ... i actually NEVER watched it myself ... and of course bond! then some small book for the kids came about but what a mix of genres he inhabited oh and there was THIS absolute classic!!! {Spoiler}{Spoiler} rest in ginger big man
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Post by dirtyoldman on Oct 14, 2022 14:10:11 GMT -5
He did have a little cameo in national lampoon's European vacation. Which also had Eric idle in it. A purcurser to nuns on the run?
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on Oct 14, 2022 14:19:06 GMT -5
RIP I enjoyed the Cracker series.
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Post by An Dog On An Skateboard on Oct 14, 2022 14:31:18 GMT -5
It sounds mental but my earliest memory of him is in a washing up liquid advert.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Oct 14, 2022 15:35:57 GMT -5
Earliest roles I remember him as was he appeared three episodes of The Young Ones playing different characters. First he played the bouncer of the roller disco that Mike sets up in Rick’s bedroom, second playing a professor in the episode Bambi a little skit he co stars with a pre Baldrick Tony Robinson and an elephant, and third a one eyed pirate radio DJ (I mean that literally in a couple of ways)
He would later appear in another Ben Elton series “Blackadder the Third” were he played the author of the first Dictionary Dr Samuel Johnson.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Oct 14, 2022 16:27:50 GMT -5
He'll always be Edward 'Fitz' Fitzgerald to me Binged all the episodes earlier this year, it’s such a great show and he was absolutely mesmerising in it. I know everyone goes on about it but that one episode with Robert Carlyle is one of the greatest pieces of TV drama ever made.
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Post by Mozenrath on Oct 14, 2022 16:33:37 GMT -5
He was great in a lot of stuff. He was also on Frasier.
(Kidding, I don't judge him for what was a pretty rough time on that show in general.)
He looked EXACTLY like the father of one of my exes, which was a little awkward.
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Post by Hurbster on Oct 14, 2022 16:33:53 GMT -5
RIP
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Oct 14, 2022 17:24:24 GMT -5
Wanted to post a Young Ones clip… but I found this clip, I have never seen it before, from a time when TV channels shut down for the..
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Post by Hit Girl on Oct 14, 2022 17:43:27 GMT -5
A great actor.
RIP Robbie
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Post by chazraps on Oct 14, 2022 18:37:17 GMT -5
One of the first memes of its generation:
I also remember tracking down a copy of 'The Pope Must Diet' from Video Update after it took FOREVER to find in the states.
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