British Academy Television Award for Best Actor "Inspector Morse" "'1994 Robbie Coltrane as Dr. Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald in "Cracker" "'1995 Robbie Coltrane as Dr. Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald in "Cracker" "'1996 Robbie Coltrane as Dr. Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald in "Cracker" "'1997 Nigel Hawthorne as Edgar Pascoe in "The Fragile Heart" "'1998 Simon Russell Beale as Kenneth Widmerpool in "A Dance to the Music of Time" "'1999 Tom Courtenay as Roy Southgate in "A Rather English Marriage" "'2000 Michael Gambon as Squire Hamley in "Wives and Daughters" "'2001 Michael Gambon as John Harrison in "Longitude" "'2002 Michael Gambon as Raymond Symon in "Perfect Strangers" "'2003 Albert Finney as Winston
Robbie Coltrane him roles in "The Comic Strip Presents" (1982) series and the comedy sketch shows "Alfresco" (1983–1984) and "Laugh??? I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee" (1984). Coltrane moved into roles in films such as "Flash Gordon" (1980), "Death Watch" (1980), "Balham, Gateway to the South" (1981), "Scrubbers" (1983), "Krull" (1983), "The Supergrass" (1985), "Defence of the Realm" (1985), "Absolute Beginners" (1986), "Mona Lisa" (1986) and appeared as "Annabelle" in "The Fruit Machine" (1988). On television, he appeared in "The Young Ones", "Tutti Frutti" (1987), as Samuel Johnson in "Blackadder" (1987) (a role he later reprised in the more serious "Boswell and