Robbie Coltrane

Coltrane lives near Glasgow, is married and has two children, and collects vintage cars. His very brief career, lifestyle, bisexuality, violent death and highly publicized funeral transformed James Dean into a cult object and pop icon of apparently timeless fascination. 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). Many teenagers of the time modeled themselves after him, and his death cast a pall on many members of his generation. He also played a would-be private detective obsessed with Humphrey Bogart in the TV play The Bogie Man. Dean epitomized the rebellion of 1950s teens, especially in his role in Rebel Without a Cause. He co-starred with Eric Idle in Nuns on the Run (1990), and played the Pope in The Pope Must Die (1991). He is one of only five people to be nominated for Best Actor for his first feature role, and the only person to be nominated twice after his death.

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 is buried in Park Cemetery in his home town of Fairmount, Indiana. 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). This occurred before the release of Giant. 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). Dean died in a road accident in a Porsche 550 Spyder near Salinas, California when a car driven by Donald Turnupseed veered into Dean's lane. 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. He followed this up in rapid succession with two more starring roles, in Rebel Without a Cause, and in the 1956 release Giant, for which he was also nominated for an Academy Award.

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 appeared in several uncredited bit roles in such forgettable films as Sailor Beware, but finally gained recognition and success in 1955 in his first starring role, that of Cal Trask in East of Eden, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Robbie Coltrane (birth name Robert MacMillan, some sources say Anthony MacMillan) (born March 30, 1950) is a Scottish actor. During his New York period he spent time in Sayville and the resort towns of Fire Island. His rave reviews in André Gide's The Immoralist led to his being called back to Hollywood and film stardom. His career turned around and Dean did several episodes of such early-1950s episodic television programs such as Kraft Television Theater, Danger, and General Electric Theater.

While there he was accepted to study under Lee Strasberg in the storied Actors Studio. Following the advice of friends, Dean moved to New York to pursue a career in live stage acting. He quit college to focus on his budding career, but he struggled to get jobs in Hollywood and only succeeded in paying bills by working as a parking lot attendant. Dean began his career with a soft drink commercial followed by a bit part in the television series, Hill Number One.

The resulting parental fight left Dean once again being turned out of his father's house. After struggling with law, against his father's wishes, Dean changed his major to drama after transferring to UCLA. While there, he enrolled in Santa Monica City College, pledged Sigma Nu fraternity and majored in pre-law. After graduating from Fairmont High School in 1949, Dean moved back to California to live with his father and stepmother.

In high school, Dean played on the school basketball team and participated in forensics debate and drama. Then, at age nine, Dean's father sent him back to live with relatives on a farm near Fairmount, Indiana where he was raised with a Quaker upbringing. While there, Dean was enrolled in Brentwood Public School until his mother died of cancer in 1940. The family moved to Santa Monica, California six years later after Winton left farming to become a dental technician.

Born on a Marion, Indiana family farm to Winton and Mildred Wilson Dean. Epitomizing youthful angst and charisma, Dean's screen persona is probably best embodied in the title of his most representative work, Rebel without a Cause. James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 - September 30, 1955) was an American film actor. You might also be looking for Jimmy Dean..

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