That self-description seemed to fit actor as much as character. I am too much,” Coltrane’s Fitz shouted in one episode. “I drink too much, I smoke too much, I gamble too much. In the 1990s ITV crime drama Cracker, scripted by Jimmy McGovern, for which Coltrane won the best actor Bafta three years in succession, he played Dr Eddie “Fitz” Fitzgerald, an obese, alcoholic, foul-mouthed, sarcastic, yet cerebral criminal psychologist. It was easy to confuse the big man with his big roles. Who would you play, his interlocutor asked? “I’d be playing the wee one with the funny hair, like yourself,” snapped back Coltrane. Once, he was telling an interviewer how he was trying to raise money for a film about Laurel and Hardy.
The “fat boy from Rutherglen” also had a splendidly eviscerating wit, useful for rebuffing questions premised on his girth.
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