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Bob Hoskins

Actor / Film Director / Screenwriter / Film Producer / Character Actor / Comedian | * 10/26/1942 († 71, 04/29/2014) | Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England (United Kingdom (UK))
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Robert William Hoskins (26 October 1942 – 29 April 2014) was an English actor and film director. Known for his intense but sensitive portrayals of "tough guy" characters, he began his career on stage before making his screen breakthrough playing Arthur Parker on the 1978 BBC Television serial Pennies from Heaven. He subsequently played acclaimed lead roles in the films The Long Good Friday (1980), Mona Lisa (1986), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), and Mermaids (1990). Hoskins had supporting roles in Pink Floyd The Wall (1982), The Honorary Consul (1983), The Cotton Club (1984), ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Romance / Love

Known for these Movies & Shows

In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area o ...

The Long Good Friday

Certification unknown

1980 | 3.6/5 | 1h 54min
Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Drama
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'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acm ...

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Certification unknown

1988 | 3.8/5 | 1h 44min
Fantasy, Animation, Comedy, Crime
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George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks h ...

Mona Lisa

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1986 | 3.4/5 | 1h 45min
Crime, Drama, Romance / Love, Thriller
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Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only hope to save our universe from invasion by the dino ...

Super Mario Bros.

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1993 | 2.1/5 | 1h 44min
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction
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Awards & Nominations for Bob Hoskins

Donostia Award European Film Award for Best Actor BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Academy Award for Best Actor 2x European Film Award for Best Actor
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Movies with Bob Hoskins as Actor(98)

as Self (archive footage)2019 An Accidental Studio
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)2018 Nothing Like a Dame
as Self (archive footage)2014 Super Mario Bros: This Ain't No Video Game
as Muir2012 Snow White and the Huntsman
as Percy 'Smudge' Smith2012 Outside Bet
as himself2012 Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice
as Davey2011 Will
as Albert Passingham2010 Made in Dagenham
as Eddie Valiant (archive footage)2009 Waking Sleeping Beauty
as Fezziwig / Old Joe (voice)2009 A Christmas Carol
as Geppetto2009 Pinocchio
as Bill Nelson2008 Doomsday
as Jack2007 Ruby Blue
as Walter Lewis2007 Outlaw
as The Baron2007 Go Go Tales
as Vince2007 Sparkle
as Badger2006 The Wind in the Willows
as Winston (voice)2006 Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
as himself2006 Bloody Business: Making The Long Good Friday
as Bob (Pigalle)2006 Paris Je T'aime
as Eddie Mannix2006 Hollywoodland
as Dr. Leon Patterson2005 Stay
as Odin2005 Son of the Mask
as Bart2005 Unleashed
as Vivian Van Damm2005 Mrs. Henderson Presents
as Sir Pitt Crawley2004 Vanity Fair
as Charlie Cassotto Maffia2004 Beyond the Sea
as Darius Paskevic2003 Den of Lions
as Angelo Roncalli / Pope John XXIII2003 The Good Pope
as Henry2003 The Sleeping Dictionary
as Sharkey2002 Where Eskimos Live
as Lionel Bloch2002 Maid in Manhattan
as Nikita Khrushchev2001 Enemy at the Gates
as Prof. Challenger2001 The Lost World
as Ray2001 Last Orders
as Joey2000 American Virgin
as Manuel Noriega2000 Noriega: God's Favorite
as Sancho Panza2000 Don Quixote
as Gerd Layton1999 Parting Shots
as Jack Armistead1999 Captain Jack
as Joe Hilditch1999 Felicia's Journey
1999 The White River Kid
as himself1999 From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic
as Steven Laws1999 A Room for Romeo Brass
as Peter1998 Let the Good Times Roll
as Cesar Crevel1998 Cousin Bette
as Alan Darcy1997 TwentyFourSeven
as himself1997 Spice World
as Verloc1996 The Secret Agent
as Vartan Malt1996 Michael
as Frank Bailey1996 Rainbow
as himself1995 Ding Dong
as Boris the Goose (voice)1995 Balto
as J. Edgar Hoover1995 Nixon
as Teddy (voice)1995 The Forgotten Toys
as himself1994 Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
as Sidney, plumber's mate1993 The Big Freeze
as De Flores1993 The Changeling
as Mario Mario1993 Super Mario Bros.
as Johnny Scanlan1992 Passed Away
as Sam Garcia1992 Blue Ice
as Beria1991 The Inner Circle
as Smee1991 Hook
as Gus Klein1991 Shattered
as Louis Aubinard1991 The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish
as Lou Landsky1990 Mermaids
as Jack Moony1990 Heart Condition
as Eddie Valiant (voice) (uncredited)1989 Tummy Trouble
as Darky1988 The Raggedy Rawney
as Self (uncredited)1988 One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
as Eddie Valiant1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit
as Father Michael Da Costa1987 A Prayer for the Dying
as James Madden1987 The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
as The Secret Policeman (voice)1987 The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball
as George1986 Mona Lisa
as Stanley Gould1986 Sweet Liberty
as Benito Mussolini1985 Mussolini and I
as Morrie Mendellsohn1985 The Dunera Boys
as George1985 The Woman Who Married Clark Gable
as Spoor1985 Brazil
as Owney Madden1984 The Cotton Club
as Inspector John Becker1984 Lassiter
as Colonel Perez1983 The Honorary Consul
as Rock and Roll Manager1982 Pink Floyd: The Wall
as Iago1981 Othello
1981 An Audience with Dudley Moore
as Harold Shand1980 The Long Good Friday
1979 Brecht and Co
as C.S.M. Williams1979 Zulu Dawn
as Big Mac1976 Inserts
1975 Kill Two Birds
as Police Constable1975 Royal Flash
as Blake (Tom's Boss)1974 Schmoedipus
as The Sexton1974 If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them
as Woodbine1973 Her Majesty's Pleasure
as Foster1973 The National Health
as Taxi driver1972 The Bankrupt
as Recruiting Sergeant1972 Up the Front

TV Shows/Series with Bob Hoskins as Actor(17)

as Damon Ira Chance2008 The Englishman's Boy
as Paddy Gargan2006 The Street
as himself2001 Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
as Winston Churchill1994 World War II: When Lions Roared
as Coach Fuller1993 Frasier
as De Flores1991 Performance
1989 Tales from the Crypt
as Arnie Cole1980 Flickers
as himself1978 An Audience with...
as Arthur Parker1978 Pennies from Heaven
as Jack Dunn1974 Shoulder to Shoulder
as Sammy Draper1973 Thriller
1972 Crown Court
1972 Van der Valk
1970 Play for Today
as Blake1970 Play for Today
as Workman1969 The Main Chance

Movies with Bob Hoskins as Crew(5)

Production/Executive Producer2005 Mrs. Henderson Presents
Directing/Director1999 Tube Tales
Directing/Director1996 Rainbow
Directing/Director1988 The Raggedy Rawney
Writing/Screenplay1988 The Raggedy Rawney

TV Shows/Series with Bob Hoskins as Crew(1)

Directing/Director1989 Tales from the Crypt

Citizenship: United Kingdom (UK)
Born: Monday, 10/26 1942 (October) in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England (United Kingdom (UK))
Died: Tuesday, 04/29 2014 (April) in Bury St Edmunds (aged: 71)
Zodiac sign: Scorpio (Chinese zodiac sign: Horse)
Languages: English (EN)
Spouses (current/former): Jane Livesey, Linda Banwell
Other names for Bob Hoskins (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Robert William Hoskins, Jr."
"Robert William Hoskins"
"Bob" (Nickname)
Bob Hoskins frequently works together with these people:
Helen Mirren (9x, Actress)
Michael Caine (8x, Actor)
Steven Spielberg (6x, Crew)
Robert Zemeckis (6x, Crew)
Shane Meadows (6x, Crew)
Christopher Benjamin (6x, Actor)
Patrick Troughton (6x, Actor)
Michael Winner (6x, Crew)
David Lodge (6x, Actor)
Dexter Fletcher (5x, Actor)
Alan Silvestri (5x, Crew)
Paul Fraser (5x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:712, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 03/31/2024