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Robbie Coltrane: Glasgow School
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After a primary education at a local state school, Robbie had been sent to the Glenalmond public school in Perthshire, known as The Eton Of Scotland. This place was deeply authoritarian, with bullying and disciplinary beatings commonplace. Due to this unhappy experience, Robbie would later call for all public schools to be banned and swear he'd never send his son to one, "Not unless I hate him". But, while there, Fat Rab (as he was then called - friends say he named himself) used comedy and natural ebullience to get him through. He was immensely popular with the other kids. He once hung the prefects' gowns from the school's clock-tower. And, for this was public school, he joined a very minor cult, known as The Curry Boys.
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Sommers ... wrote and directed "The Adventures of Huck Finn," starring Elijah Wood, Robbie Coltrane and Jason Robards, "The Jungle Book" with Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes, Sam Neill and John Cleese, and Deep Rising, starring Treat Williams and Famke Janssen. Sommers wrote and executive produced "Tom And Huck" with Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Brad Renfro. For television, he wrote and executive produced "Oliver Twist," again working with Wood as well as Richard Dreyfuss. He attended St. Johns University and The University of Seville in Spain and earned a Masters Degree from the USC School of Cinema-Television.
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Annie was studying graphic art in Edinburgh, and Robbie would often visit her. Noticing how he got on with her friends, he realised that he too was an artist so, when the time came, he enrolled at Glasgow Art School, to study painting. Slowly, he recognised that his work was not up to his own high standards, but he continued on to graduation, then another year at Edinburgh's Moray House College Of Education before deciding that art was not for him.
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