Bob Hoskins movies

(born October 26, 1942) is an English Academy Award-nominated actor best known for playing Cockney rough diamonds and gangsters, and for his performances in family films such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Hook (1991). He has two children with his current wife, and two children from a previous marriage.
After beginning his acting career on the London stage in the late 1960s, Hoskins performances in British films such as The Long Good Friday (1980) and Mona Lisa (1986) won him the wider approval of the critics and, in the case of the latter, an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. He also delivered comic turns in Terry Gilliams Brazil (1985), Super Mario Bros.

(1993) and Mrs Henderson Presents (2005)?for which he received a Golden Globe nomination (Best Supporting Actor). During the late 1980s and early 1990s he appeared in advertising for the recently privatised companies of British Gas and British Telecom (now BT Group).He played Nikita Khrushchev in the movie Enemy at the Gates (2001). Khrushchev was shown in his political commissar days during the Battle of Stalingrad.Hoskins made a cameo appearance as a rock bands manager in the Pink Floyd film The Wall, with a two-word expletive spoken part. He has also directed films. He was slated to be a last-minute replacement in the film The Untouchables if star Robert DeNiro had not decided to play Al Capone. When DeNiro took the part, director Brian DePalma mailed Hoskins a cheque for US$ 200,000 with a Thank You note, which prompted Hoskins to call up DePalma and ask him if there were any more movies he didnt want him to be in.Some of Hoskins other notable appearances include playing the fallen-on-hard-times detective Eddie Valiant in the classic animation/live action film Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), playing opposite Cher in Mermaids (1990), bosun Smee to Captain Hook in Hook (1991), and Uncle Bart, the violent "owner" of Jet Li in Unleashed.

Bob Hoskins Movies

All movies starring Bob Hoskins.

• A Room for Romeo Brass
• Beyond the Sea
• Brazil
• Doomsday
• Enemy at the Gates
• Hollywoodland
• Hook
• Last Orders
• Maid in Manhattan
• Mermaids
• Michael
• Mrs Henderson Presents
• Nixon
• Outlaw