A British teenage actor playing a minor role in the upcoming Harry Potter film was stabbed to death outside a Kent nightclub in London on Saturday.18-year-old Harry Potter actor Robert Knox was trying to defend his younger brother from a man with a knife.
Knox plays Ravenclaw student Marcus Belby in the upcoming film “Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince”, the sixth installment of the Harry Potter series set for release in November.
Warner Bros., the studio that is producing the film, said it was shocked by the news.
His father have spoken out about the popular youngster described by his father as “an angel on Earth without wings”.
Sally and Colin Knox said they hope Robert’s screen profile – he appears in the new Harry Potter flick – will help highlight the increase in knife crime. “If it serves that purpose, then Robert will have done something else exceptional in his short life,” says Colin.