Bob Hoskins
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).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.431 |
| Birthday | 1942-10-26 |
| Place of Birth | Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Robert William Hoskins, Jr., Боб Хоскинс, |
1985
Brazil
7.665/3364
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautif...
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Brazil
2001
Enemy at the Gates
7.412/3691
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
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Enemy at the Gates
1988
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
7.5/5798
'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....
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1991
Hook
6.833/5358
The boy who wasn't supposed to grow up—Peter Pan—does just that, becoming a soulless corporate lawyer whose workaholism could cost him his wife and ki...
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Hook
2006
Hollywoodland
6.098/409
When Hollywood superstar George Reeves dies in his home, private detective Louis Simo is hired to investigate his death and gets caught in a web of li...
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Hollywoodland
1991
Shattered
6.2/197
Dan Merrick comes out from a shattering car accident with amnesia. He finds that he is married to Judith who is trying to help him start his life agai...
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Shattered
1984
The Cotton Club
6.5/407
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
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The Cotton Club
1986
Mona Lisa
6.9/257
George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date.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...
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Mona Lisa
2001
The Lost World
6/65
This Lost World is a splendid BBC TV dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous adventure story. Bob Hoskins makes an unusually genial Professor...
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The Lost World
2005
Unleashed
6.92/2018
Raised as a slave, Danny is used to fighting for his survival. In fact, his "master," Bart, thinks of him as a pet and goes as far as leashing him wit...
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Unleashed
2006
Paris Je T'aime
6.767/765
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories,...
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Paris Je T'aime
1996
Michael
5.698/635
Tabloid reporters are sent by their editor to investigate after the paper recieves a letter from a woman claiming an angel is living with her.
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Michael
2005
Mrs. Henderson Presents
6.7/221
Eccentric 70-year-old widow purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. After starting an innovative continuous variety review...
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Mrs. Henderson Presents
1990
Mermaids
6.743/520
Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town any time she feels it is necessary. When they move t...
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Mermaids
1995
Nixon
6.9/371
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spa...
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Nixon
1995
Balto
7.303/2051
An outcast half-wolf risks his life to prevent a deadly epidemic from ravaging Nome, Alaska.
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Balto
2004
Beyond the Sea
6.3/169
Based on the life and career of legendary entertainer, Bobby Darin, the biopic moves back and forth between his childhood and adulthood, to tell the t...
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Beyond the Sea
1998
TwentyFourSeven
6.2/34
In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy, a highly motivated man...
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TwentyFourSeven
1999
A Room for Romeo Brass
6.966/59
Two twelve-year-old boys, Romeo and Gavin, undergo an extraordinary test of character and friendship when Morell, a naive but eccentric and dangerous...
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A Room for Romeo Brass
2002
Maid in Manhattan
6.113/1918
Marisa Ventura is a struggling single mom who works at a posh Manhattan hotel and dreams of a better life for her and her young son. One fateful day,...
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Maid in Manhattan
1997
Spice World
4.852/471
World famous pop group the Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double decker tour bus having various adventures and performing for their...
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Spice World
2004
Vanity Fair
5.8/340
Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a...
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Vanity Fair
2005
Stay
6.6/1346
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and...
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Stay
1982
Pink Floyd: The Wall
8/1510
A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
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Pink Floyd: The Wall
1975
Inserts
6/42
A young, once-great Hollywood film director refuses to accept changing times during the early 1930s, and confines himself to his decaying mansion to m...
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Inserts
2006
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
5.6/2221
Jon and Garfield visit the United Kingdom, where a case of mistaken cat identity finds Garfield ruling over a castle. His reign is soon jeopardized by...
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Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
2003
The Sleeping Dictionary
6.5/164
A young Englishman is dispatched to Sarawak to become part of the British colonial government. He encounters some unorthodox local traditions, and fin...
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The Sleeping Dictionary
1993
Super Mario Bros.
4.438/1332
Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only ho...
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Super Mario Bros.
2009
Pinocchio
6/97
The enchanted story of Pinocchio.
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Pinocchio
1987
A Prayer for the Dying
5.8/98
Martin, an I.R.A. hitman, is seen by a Catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He grows a bond with the priest and his niece. But his past and his f...
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A Prayer for the Dying
2007
Outlaw
5.4/150
A group of people who feel betrayed by their government and let down by their police force form a modern-day outlaw posse in order to right what they...
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Outlaw
2008
Doomsday
6/1303
The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarant...
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Doomsday
1987
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
6.7/26
A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident...
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The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
2006
The Wind in the Willows
6.4/8
Matt Lucas as a marvellous Toad, Mark Gatiss as a spiky rat, Lee Ingleby as a nervous Mole, and Bob Hoskins as a grumpy old Badger make a classy cast...
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The Wind in the Willows
1990
Heart Condition
5.5/91
Racist police officer Jack Moony has a vendetta against Napoleon Stone, a charismatic black lawyer who is sleeping with Jack's old flame Crystal Gerri...
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Heart Condition
2000
American Virgin
3.7/11
When your father is a pornographer, what can you do to shock him? If you're Katrina Bartalotti, you announce that you're going to lose your virginity...
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American Virgin
2001
Last Orders
5.979/72
Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watchi...
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Last Orders
1980
The Long Good Friday
7.128/370
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 t...
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The Long Good Friday
2007
Sparkle
5.9/14
Liverpool chancer Sam moves to London with his aspiring chanteuse mum and begins an affair with a PR boss. But problems arise when he falls for her es...
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Sparkle
1992
Passed Away
5.4/14
Thrown for a loop by the unexpected news that Dad has suddenly gone to his reward, the grieving eccentric Scanian clan are drawn together in a test of...
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Passed Away
2010
Made in Dagenham
6.692/305
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
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Made in Dagenham
1992
Blue Ice
5.1/27
An ex-British spy (Michael Caine) helps a U.S. diplomat's wife (Sean Young) and blows the lid off a deadly government cover-up.
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Blue Ice
1996
The Secret Agent
5.3/37
In 1880s London, pornographic bookseller Verloc is a double agent for the Russian government, providing information to Chief Inspector Heat about a la...
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The Secret Agent
2003
Den of Lions
5.8/15
A Hungarian gypsy working for a Russian mobster becomes a double agent for the FBI.
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Den of Lions
2009
A Christmas Carol
6.9/4643
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...
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A Christmas Carol
1999
Felicia's Journey
6.3/105
Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a helpful catering manager...
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Felicia's Journey
1972
Up the Front
4.1/15
In Frankie Howerd's third Up... film it's World War I and he plays Lurk, an absolute cowerd, er coward. He's evading the call-up for all he's worth. B...
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Up the Front
1999
The White River Kid
5/22
Two con men are traveling through the American South when they are held hostage by a serial killer who is running from the authorities.
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The White River Kid
1986
Sweet Liberty
5.556/36
Michael Burgess is an academic who has written a scholarly book on the American Revolution which Hollywood has bought the film rights to. The arrival...
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Sweet Liberty
1979
Zulu Dawn
6.1/103
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
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Zulu Dawn
1995
Ding Dong
0/0
Door to Door Make Overs...Madness...Murder!!! Ding Dong is the story of two women in love. They are successful, popular and beautiful. But they have o...
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Ding Dong
1983
The Honorary Consul
5.7/49
Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr. Eduardo Plarr, who left his home to...
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The Honorary Consul
1998
Cousin Bette
5.7/44
Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her...
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Cousin Bette
2007
Go Go Tales
5.67/50
A financial struggle between owners of a go-go club threatens its future.
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Go Go Tales
2007
Ruby Blue
5.3/6
An elderly man's innocent friendship with an eight year old girl is tarnished by the assumptions of a community when the little girl goes missing.
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Ruby Blue
1992
The Inner Circle
5.8/36
Life changes for a Moscow worker when he's made Stalin's personal film projectionist but cannot tell his bride.
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The Inner Circle
1999
Captain Jack
5/2
Rebellious and irreverent, Captain Jack is a man on a mission. Come hell or high water, he's determined to follow in the footsteps of Whitby's unsung...
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Captain Jack
2011
Will
6.7/58
Brennan is Liverpool's number one fan, able to recite facts ad infinitum about the club and at a public school in the south of England since his fathe...
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Will
1984
Lassiter
5.3/34
A handsome jewel thief is arrested and in order to avoid prison, must break into the heavily guarded German Embassy to steal millions in gems.
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Lassiter
2002
Where Eskimos Live
6.9/8
Sharkey, part of the sinister world of child trade, picks up Vlado, an orphan of war, dreaming of freedom and a better life. They embark upon a strang...
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Where Eskimos Live
2012
Snow White and the Huntsman
6/7915
After the Evil Queen marries the King, she performs a violent coup in which the King is murdered and his daughter, Snow White, is taken captive. Almos...
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Snow White and the Huntsman
1987
The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball
5/1
When the British Amnesty shows finally resumed in 1987 after a six-year hiatus, the show format was retooled in an effort to take advantage of the gro...
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The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball
2012
Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice
7.4/17
Internationally acclaimed ventriloquist Nina Conti takes the bereaved puppets of her mentor and erstwhile lover Ken Campbell on a pilgrimage to "Venth...
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Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice
2012
Outside Bet
5.6/4
A group of print workers in 1980s London club together to buy a race horse.
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Outside Bet
1991
The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish
6/20
A farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious pictures who searches for a model for Jesus. He does a favor for a friend and finds...
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The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish
1985
Mussolini and I
5.9/7
A compelling drama/documentary chronicling the life and death of Il Duce himself, from his days as a terrorist to his alliance with Hitler to the betr...
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Mussolini and I
1974
Schmoedipus
0/0
Glen, a complete stranger, appears at the door of Elizabeth Carter, a middle-aged woman, and claims to be the illegitimate son she gave away at birth.
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Schmoedipus
2003
The Good Pope
6.3/13
Angelo Roncalli, born in Sotto Il Monte in 1881, is known for his profound spirituality as well as his extraordinary goodness from the young years of...
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The Good Pope
1981
Stainless Steel and the Star Spies
0/0
The Metaliens, alien robots intent on galactic domination, encounter a major setback. Their enormous Space Saucer, 'Compromise', enters a black hole i...
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Stainless Steel and the Star Spies
1988
The Raggedy Rawney
5.9/7
During WWII a youth deserts his country's army after a combat experience, but not before wounding his commanding officer with a knife in order to esca...
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The Raggedy Rawney
1973
The National Health
6.944/9
Peter Nichols adapted his own hit play to the screen, based on his experiences in hospitals. A riotous black comedy that's as timely today as ever, it...
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The National Health
2000
Don Quixote
6.1/31
Adapted from the work of Miguel de Cervantes, this is the story of a hidalgo, fanatic for chivalry novels, who loses his sanity and believing to be a...
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Don Quixote
1974
If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them
0/0
Set in a cemetery, the film tells the story of a young man whom a blind man wrongly imagines to be black, and explores the nature of human prejudice.
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If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them
1995
The Forgotten Toys
7.923/26
A festive tale about two lost toys searching for a new home.
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The Forgotten Toys
1988
Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town
6.2/8
A behind-the-scenes documentary hosted by Joanna Cassidy on the making of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
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Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town
2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty
7.3/108
By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovat...
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Waking Sleeping Beauty
1981
An Audience with Dudley Moore
6/1
Outstanding comedian and musician Dudley Moore regales his spellbound audience in typical fashion with his hilarious edition of the long-running An Au...
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An Audience with Dudley Moore
1993
The Big Freeze
6.2/5
A silent comedy. Two accident-prone plumbers go to fix the plumbing at a home for retired gentle-folk on the coldest day of the year in Finland. Every...
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The Big Freeze
1988
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
0/0
The gloriously glamorous Dame Edna entertains a celebrity audience in this 1988 special.
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One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
1985
An Audience with Billy Connolly
8.4/18
Billy Connolly delivers his special brand of stand-up comedy and abrasive humour in front of a celebrity audience.
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An Audience with Billy Connolly
2008
The Last Word Monologues
0/0
Three contemplative monologues about killing, written by Hugo Blick.
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The Last Word Monologues
1983
The Beggar's Opera
0/0
A historical adaptation of John Gay's 18th Century ballad opera, exuberantly performed for BBC television.
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The Beggar's Opera
2014
Super Mario Bros: This Ain't No Video Game
4.4/8
A documentary about the making of the live-action Super Mario Bros. movie.
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Super Mario Bros: This Ain't No Video Game
1996
Rainbow
4.2/4
Four kids and a dog embark on the adventure of a lifetime -- the search for the end of the Rainbow. With the aid of computers and an irrepressible bel...
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Rainbow
2008
Anatomy of Catastrophe: The Making of 'Doomsday'
7/1
The Making of 'Doomsday'
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Anatomy of Catastrophe: The Making of 'Doomsday'
2000
Noriega: God's Favorite
5.4/7
The story of Panamanian dictator, Manuel Noriega.
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Noriega: God's Favorite
2006
Bloody Business: Making The Long Good Friday
6.6/5
A documentary about the making of The Long Good Friday, including interviews with John Mackenzie, stars Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, pro...
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Bloody Business: Making The Long Good Friday
1979
Big Jim and the Figaro Club
0/0
In the early 1950s 'College' comes down from Cambridge to work for the summer with his old mates on the buildings - only to find a seething passion gr...
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Big Jim and the Figaro Club
1989
The Movie Life of George
0/0
When EMI refused to produce Monty Python's Life of Brian, George Harrison founded Handmade Pictures so that he could see the film. This is the story o...
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The Movie Life of George
1999
Parting Shots
6.1/10
Harry Sterndale, a failed photographer, is given a diagnosis of cancer and told that he has only three months to live. After thinking things over, he...
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Parting Shots
1975
Royal Flash
6/25
Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair...
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Royal Flash
1979
Brecht and Co
0/0
Brecht's company of actors tells the story of Bertolt Brecht: his theatre, plays, poetry and his life.
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Brecht and Co
1985
The Woman Who Married Clark Gable
8/1
Period drama. A woman living in Dublin in the late 1930's relieves her humdrum existence with fantasies that her newly-moustachioed husband is her scr...
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The Woman Who Married Clark Gable
1981
Othello
6.4/8
Iago and a comrade-in-arms are outside the Venice home of Desdemona's father, who does not yet know that she has eloped with Othello. Iago confides to...
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Othello
2019
An Accidental Studio
6.444/9
Charts the early years of HandMade Films seen through the eyes of the filmmakers, key personnel, and the man who started it all: former Beatle George...
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An Accidental Studio
1985
The Dunera Boys
6/2
At the start of WWII the British Government decided to arrest all Germans in the UK no matter how long they had been there. Among those arrested were...
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The Dunera Boys
1999
From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic
8.1/9
The incredible evolution of George Lucas' special effects dream factory, including an inside look at "Star Wars: Episode One - The Phantom Menace."
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From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic
2005
Son of the Mask
4.2/1847
Tim Avery, an aspiring cartoonist, finds himself in a predicament when his dog stumbles upon the mask of Loki. Then after conceiving an infant son "bo...
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Son of the Mask
1993
The Changeling
0/0
Just days before her wedding, Beatrice-Joanna has a chance encounter with Alsemero, and realizes that she has met her one true love. To marry the man...
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The Changeling
1998
Let the Good Times Roll
0/0
A short autobiographical film written by Dexter Fletcher.
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Let the Good Times Roll
1972
The Bankrupt
0/0
Ellis Cripper has lost his money and his memory; in different ways he tries to make sense of his situation.
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The Bankrupt
1973
Her Majesty's Pleasure
0/0
They are all 'in' for life so the pleasures are sparse, and strictly of their own making.Their really big event is the Christmas pantomime, only this...
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Her Majesty's Pleasure
2018
Nothing Like a Dame
6.9/54
BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Elieen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen togeth...
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Nothing Like a Dame
1975
Kill Two Birds
0/0
Two female tourists are taken hostage by criminals who are chasing a man recently released from prison who knows the whereabouts of stolen money
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Kill Two Birds
1976
The Story of Pantomime
0/0
This 1976 BBC documentary sees Ken Campbell (and his Roadshow) investigate the origins and the development of the traditional British Christmas pantom...
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The Story of Pantomime
1994
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
0/0
A documentary about actor Michael Caine. Narrated by Caine himself, it includes interviews of his family, friends and colleagues and clips from some o...
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Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
1977
Three Piece Suite
0/0
Miniseries comprising short plays featuring Diana Rigg and guests.
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Three Piece Suite
1991
Rabbit Ears - The Bremen Town Musicians
0/0
Follow the inspiring adventures of a dog, cat, rooster, and donkey who prove it's never too late to start over. Well along in years already—and worrie...
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Rabbit Ears - The Bremen Town Musicians
1994
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
0/0
Documentary focused on the creation of movie and television special effects, hosted by Roy Scheider and Jonathan Brandis, featuring behind the scenes...
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