The Latest Breaking News from John Coltrane

Robbie Coltrane, the baby-faced comedian and character actor whose hundreds of roles included a crime-solving psychologist on the TV series “Cracker” and the gentle half-giant Hagrid in the “Harry Potter” movies, has died. He was 72. Coltrane’s agent Belinda Wright said he died Friday at a hospital in his native…

Perhaps best known for his role as Rubeus Hagrid in eight Harry Potter films, Robbie Coltrane OBE was a larger-than-life character whose presence was immediately evident whenever he graced the screen.

Comedian turned critically acclaimed actor, from Cracker’s sarcastic, cerebral Fitz to the half-giant Hagrid in Harry Potter

Coltrane was made an OBE in the 2006 New Year's honours.

The actor was known for his roles in TV series Cracker and as Hagrid in the Harry Potter films.

Scottish actor who graduated from the alternative comedy scene to become a major performer known for taking on complex and difficult roles

US saxophonist who started his career with Sun Ra and John Coltrane and went on to find a more spiritual voice

Son House is regarded as one of the greats of early blues, along with early recording stars like Charley Patton and Robert Johnson. He made 78rpm records in the 1930s but a spell in penitentiary halted his career and by the 1940s he had abandoned recording. It wasn't until 1964…

The spiritual jazz legend was a man of few words – but his expansive, effusive playing said everything

LOS ANGELES — Pharoah Sanders, the legendary jazz saxophonist perhaps best known for his transcendent work with John Coltrane and for a solo run for Impulse Records beginning in the mid-1960s, and who helped define the so-called spiritual jazz movement, has died. He was 81.

The jazz great died in Los Angeles early Saturday, his record label announced.