Bob Hoskins
Birthday: 1942-10-26
Place of Birth: Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, UK
Biography: Robert William "Bob" Hoskins, Jr. (October 26, 1942 – April 29, 2014) was an English actor, known for playing Cockney rough diamonds, psychopaths and gangsters, in films such as The Long Good Friday (1980), and Mona Lisa (1986), and lighter roles in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Hook (1991).
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Brazil
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydr...
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Enemy at the Gates
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII....
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the stu...
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Hook
The boy who wasn't supposed to grow up—Peter Pan—does just that, becoming a soulless corporate lawye...
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Hollywoodland
When Hollywood superstar George Reeves dies in his home, private detective Louis Simo is hired to in...
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Shattered
Dan Merrick comes out from a shattering car accident with amnesia. He finds that he is married to Ju...
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The Cotton Club
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of en...
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Mona Lisa
George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Re...
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The Lost World
This Lost World is a splendid BBC TV dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous adventure stor...
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Unleashed
Raised as a slave, Danny is used to fighting for his survival. In fact, his "master," Bart, thinks o...
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Paris Je T'aime
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished director...
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Michael
Tabloid reporters are sent by their editor to investigate after the paper recieves a letter from a w...
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Mrs. Henderson Presents
Eccentric 70-year-old widow purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. Afte...
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Mermaids
Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town an...
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Nixon
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while bat...
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Balto
An outcast half-wolf risks his life to prevent a deadly epidemic from ravaging Nome, Alaska....
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Beyond the Sea
Based on the life and career of legendary entertainer, Bobby Darin, the biopic moves back and forth ...
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TwentyFourSeven
In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in g...
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A Room for Romeo Brass
Two twelve-year-old boys, Romeo and Gavin, undergo an extraordinary test of character and friendship...
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Maid in Manhattan
Marisa Ventura is a struggling single mom who works at a posh Manhattan hotel and dreams of a better...
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Spice World
World famous pop group the Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double decker tour bus h...
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Vanity Fair
In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the positio...
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Stay
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to dia...
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Pink Floyd: The Wall
A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from ev...
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Inserts
A young, once-great Hollywood film director refuses to accept changing times during the early 1930s,...
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Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
Jon and Garfield visit the United Kingdom, where a case of mistaken cat identity finds Garfield ruli...
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The Sleeping Dictionary
A young Englishman is dispatched to Sarawak to become part of the British colonial government. He en...
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Super Mario Bros.
Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dino...
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A Prayer for the Dying
Martin, an I.R.A. hitman, is seen by a Catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He grows a bond wit...
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Outlaw
A group of people who feel betrayed by their government and let down by their police force form a mo...
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Doomsday
The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousa...
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The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She mak...
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The Wind in the Willows
Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved To...
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Heart Condition
Racist police officer Jack Moony has a vendetta against Napoleon Stone, a charismatic black lawyer w...
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American Virgin
When your father is a pornographer, what can you do to shock him? If you're Katrina Bartalotti, you ...
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Last Orders
Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he...
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The Long Good Friday
In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate propert...
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Sparkle
Liverpool chancer Sam moves to London with his aspiring chanteuse mum and begins an affair with a PR...
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Passed Away
Thrown for a loop by the unexpected news that Dad has suddenly gone to his reward, the grieving ecce...
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Made in Dagenham
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out i...
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Blue Ice
An ex-British spy (Michael Caine) helps a U.S. diplomat's wife (Sean Young) and blows the lid off a ...
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The Secret Agent
In 1880s London, pornographic bookseller Verloc is a double agent for the Russian government, provid...
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Den of Lions
A Hungarian gypsy working for a Russian mobster becomes a double agent for the FBI....
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A Christmas Carol
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable e...
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Felicia's Journey
Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Jo...
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Up the Front
In Frankie Howerd's third Up... film it's World War I and he plays Lurk, an absolute cowerd, er cowa...
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The White River Kid
Two con men are traveling through the American South when they are held hostage by a serial killer w...
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Sweet Liberty
Michael Burgess is an academic who has written a scholarly book on the American Revolution which Hol...
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Zulu Dawn
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership....
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Ding Dong
Door to Door Make Overs...Madness...Murder!!! Ding Dong is the story of two women in love. They are ...
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The Honorary Consul
Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and h...
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Cousin Bette
In 19th century Paris, Bette Fischer, a poor and homely spinster, forms an alliance with the seducti...
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Ruby Blue
An elderly man's innocent friendship with an eight year old girl is tarnished by the assumptions of ...
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The Inner Circle
Life changes for a Moscow worker when he's made Stalin's personal film projectionist but cannot tell...
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Captain Jack
Rebellious and irreverent, Captain Jack is a man on a mission. Come hell or high water, he's determi...
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Will
Brennan is Liverpool's number one fan, able to recite facts ad infinitum about the club and at a pub...
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Lassiter
A handsome jewel thief is arrested and in order to avoid prison, must break into the heavily guarded...
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Where Eskimos Live
Sharkey, part of the sinister world of child trade, picks up Vlado, an orphan of war, dreaming of fr...
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Snow White and the Huntsman
After the Evil Queen marries the King, she performs a violent coup in which the King is murdered and...
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The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball
When the British Amnesty shows finally resumed in 1987 after a six-year hiatus, the show format was ...
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Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice
Internationally acclaimed ventriloquist Nina Conti takes the bereaved puppets of her mentor and erst...
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Outside Bet
A group of print workers in 1980s London club together to buy a race horse....
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The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish
A farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious pictures who searches for a model...
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Schmoedipus
Glen, a complete stranger, appears at the door of Elizabeth Carter, a middle-aged woman, and claims ...
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The Good Pope
Angelo Roncalli, born in Sotto Il Monte in 1881, is known for his profound spirituality as well as h...
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Stainless Steel and the Star Spies
The Metaliens, alien robots intent on galactic domination, encounter a major setback. Their enormous...
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The Raggedy Rawney
During WWII a youth deserts his country's army after a combat experience, but not before wounding hi...
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The National Health
Peter Nichols adapted his own hit play to the screen, based on his experiences in hospitals. A rioto...
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Don Quixote
Adapted from the work of Miguel de Cervantes, this is the story of a hidalgo, fanatic for chivalry n...
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If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them
Set in a cemetery, the film tells the story of a young man whom a blind man wrongly imagines to be b...
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Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town
A behind-the-scenes documentary hosted by Joanna Cassidy on the making of Who Framed Roger Rabbit....
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Waking Sleeping Beauty
By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists ...
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An Audience with Dudley Moore
Outstanding comedian and musician Dudley Moore regales his spellbound audience in typical fashion wi...
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The Big Freeze
A silent comedy. Two accident-prone plumbers go to fix the plumbing at a home for retired gentle-fol...
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One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
The gloriously glamorous Dame Edna entertains a celebrity audience in this 1988 special....
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An Audience with Billy Connolly
Billy Connolly delivers his special brand of stand-up comedy and abrasive humour in front of a celeb...
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The Last Word Monologues
Three contemplative monologues about killing, written by Hugo Blick....
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The Beggar's Opera
A historical adaptation of John Gay's 18th Century ballad opera, exuberantly performed for BBC telev...
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Super Mario Bros: This Ain't No Video Game
A documentary about the making of the live-action Super Mario Bros. movie....
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Rainbow
Four kids and a dog embark on the adventure of a lifetime -- the search for the end of the Rainbow. ...
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Noriega: God's Favorite
The story of Panamanian general Manuel Antonio 'Tony' Noriega, whose meteoric career, from utter pov...
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Bloody Business: Making The Long Good Friday
A documentary about the making of The Long Good Friday, including interviews with John Mackenzie, st...
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Big Jim and the Figaro Club
In the early 1950s 'College' comes down from Cambridge to work for the summer with his old mates on ...
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The Movie Life of George
When EMI refused to produce Monty Python's Life of Brian, George Harrison founded Handmade Pictures ...
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Parting Shots
Harry Sterndale, a failed photographer, is given a diagnosis of cancer and told that he has only thr...
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Royal Flash
Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19t...
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Brecht and Co
Brecht's company of actors tells the story of Bertolt Brecht: his theatre, plays, poetry and his lif...
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The Woman Who Married Clark Gable
Period drama. A woman living in Dublin in the late 1930's relieves her humdrum existence with fantas...
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Othello
Iago and a comrade-in-arms are outside the Venice home of Desdemona's father, who does not yet know ...
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An Accidental Studio
Charts the early years of HandMade Films seen through the eyes of the filmmakers, key personnel, and...
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The Dunera Boys
At the start of WWII the British Government decided to arrest all Germans in the UK no matter how lo...
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From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic
The incredible evolution of George Lucas' special effects dream factory, including an inside look at...
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Son of the Mask
Tim Avery, an aspiring cartoonist, finds himself in a predicament when his dog stumbles upon the mas...
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The Changeling
Just days before her wedding, Beatrice-Joanna has a chance encounter with Alsemero, and realizes tha...
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Let the Good Times Roll
This short autobiographical film written by Dexter Fletcher is about a down-on-his-luck man in Londo...
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The Bankrupt
Ellis Cripper has lost his money and his memory; in different ways he tries to make sense of his sit...
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Her Majesty's Pleasure
They are all 'in' for life so the pleasures are sparse, and strictly of their own making.Their reall...
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Nothing Like a Dame
BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Eileen Atki...
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Kill Two Birds
Two female tourists are taken hostage by criminals who are chasing a man recently released from pris...
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The Story of Pantomime
This 1976 BBC documentary sees Ken Campbell (and his Roadshow) investigate the origins and the devel...
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Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
A documentary about actor Michael Caine. Narrated by Caine himself, it includes interviews of his fa...
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Rabbit Ears - The Bremen Town Musicians
Follow the inspiring adventures of a dog, cat, rooster, and donkey who prove it's never too late to ...
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Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
Documentary focused on the creation of movie and television special effects, hosted by Roy Scheider ...
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George
Crime drama told from the perspective of one of the participants of a bank heist....
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Of Mycenae and Men
Historical comedy, showing what happened to Helen of Troy after the Trojan War....
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