Neil Norman is a British playwright and critic.
 A journalist on the "New Musical Express" in the early 1970s, Norman became a film critic for "The Face" and in the ensuing years a reviewer of film and theatre for various cinema magazines and national newspapers.
 He joined the "Evening Standard" in 1986 as a film critic and feature writer.
 He is co-author of a book about the 1985 movie "Insignificance" and the Robbie Coltrane biography "Looking For Robbie".
 His plays have been performed in London, Toronto and New York.
Billy the Kid is a Western comic book series published by Charlton Comics, with stories of a fictional character based on the historical Billy the Kid.
 Taking over the numbering of a previous Western comic, Masked Raider, "Billy the Kid" was published from issues #9-153 (Nov. 1957 - March 1983).
 The Billy the Kid character made his first appearance in "Masked Raider" #6.
The Fruit Machine (known as Wonderland in the United States) is a 1988 British film thriller starring Tony Forsyth, Emile Charles, Bruce Payne and Robbie Coltrane in the role of "Annabelle".
 The film, which was directed by BAFTA-winner Philip Saville, is about two gay teen friends who are running from an underworld assassin and the police.
 It was produced by UK TV company Granada Productions.
 The film showcases the rising careers of actors Coltrane and Payne, as well as future Academy Awards winner, composer Hans Zimmer, who wrote the soundtrack.
The Tale of Despereaux is a 2008 British-American computer-animated adventure fantasy family film directed by Sam Fell and Robert Stevenhagen and produced by Gary Ross and Allison Thomas.
 Loosely based on the 2003 fantasy book of the same name by Kate DiCamillo, the movie is narrated by Sigourney Weaver and stars Matthew Broderick, Robbie Coltrane, Frances Conroy, Tony Hale, Ciarán Hinds, Dustin Hoffman, Richard Jenkins, Kevin Kline, Frank Langella, William H. Macy, Charles Shaughnessy, Stanley Tucci, Tracey Ullman, and Emma Watson.
 It was released on December 19, 2008, by Universal Pictures.
 The movie is the second theatrically released computer-animated film distributed by Universal Studios.
 It was also produced by Universal Animation Studios, Framestore Feature Animation, and Relativity Media.
 The film grossed $86,947,965 on a $60 million budget.
Robbie Coltrane, OBE (born Anthony Robert McMillan; 30 March 1950) is a Scottish actor and author.
 He is known for his roles as Rubeus Hagrid in the "Harry Potter" films, as Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky in the James Bond films "GoldenEye" and "The World Is Not Enough," and as Dr. Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald in the British TV series "Cracker" during the 1990s.
Several actors of the United Kingdom and Ireland have voiced or portrayed characters appearing in the "Harry Potter" film series based on the book series by J. K. Rowling.
 Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson have played Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger in all the films.
 When they were cast only Radcliffe had previously acted in a film.
 Complementing them on screen are such actors as Helena Bonham Carter, Jim Broadbent, John Cleese, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Richard Griffiths, Richard Harris, John Hurt, Jason Isaacs, Miriam Margolyes, Helen McCrory, Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw, Maggie Smith, Timothy Spall, Imelda Staunton, David Thewlis, Emma Thompson, and Julie Walters, among others.
 Thirteen actors have appeared as the same character in all eight films of the series.
Forgotten Sins was a 1996 television movie based on Lawrence Wright's "New Yorker" articles and his book "Remembering Satan", which was in turn based on the actual case of Paul Ingram.
 It originally aired on the ABC Network on March 7, 1996.
 It starred William Devane as Dr. Richard Ofshe, "a role to which William Devane brings his customary bristling panache" wrote Dorothy Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal.
 John Shea also starred as Matthew Bradshaw, a fictional character based on Paul Ingram.
 Bess Armstrong also appeared in this film, portraying Roberta 'Bobbie' Bradshaw, a character based on Sandy Ingram. "
Doogie Howser"'s Lisa Dean Ryan co-starred.
Henry V is a 1989 British historical drama film adapted for the screen and directed by Kenneth Branagh, based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name about King Henry V of England.
 The film stars Branagh in the title role with Paul Scofield, Derek Jacobi, Ian Holm, Emma Thompson, Alec McCowen, Judi Dench, Robbie Coltrane, Brian Blessed, and Christian Bale in supporting roles.
The Adventures of Huck Finn is a 1993 American adventure film written and directed by Stephen Sommers, distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and Buena Vista Pictures, and starring Elijah Wood, Courtney B. Vance, Jason Robards and Robbie Coltrane; it is based on Mark Twain's novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and focuses on at least three-fourths of the book.
 The film follows a boy named Huckleberry Finn and an escaped slave named Jim, who travel the Mississippi River together and overcome various obstacles along the way.
Rubeus Hagrid is a fictional character in the "Harry Potter" book series written by J. K. Rowling.
 He is introduced in "Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone" as a half-giant and half-human who is the gamekeeper and Keeper of Keys and Grounds of Hogwarts, the primary setting for the first six novels.
 In the third novel "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", Hagrid is promoted to Care of Magical Creatures teacher, and is later revealed to be a member of the Order of the Phoenix.

Question: Robbie Coltrane is known for his film roles as a fictional character based on a book series written by who?
Answer: J. K. Rowling