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Bob Hoskins
Robert William Hoskins 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 in 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 Roge…
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entertainment · English actor (1942–2014) · television actor · film actor · actor · film director · screenwriter · film producer · character actor · comedian · stage actor · musician · also Bob Hoskins, Robert William Hoskins Jr., Robert William Hoskins, Hoskins
Born 26 October 1942 · Died 29 April 2014 · Q211283
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2026· 4 entries
Public attention spiked: 5,570 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.4× the usual 1,639, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 5,679 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.5× the usual 1,639, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 9,145 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.6× the usual 1,639, with 0 article edits.
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2015· 4 entries
The Guardian: Tribute paid to Bob Hoskins at 2015 Oscars
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The Guardian: Bafta defends Bob Hoskins in memoriam omission
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The Guardian: Baftas under fire for forgetting Bob Hoskins's death
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The Guardian: Cathy Tyson: ‘Bob Hoskins helped me be unafraid as an actress’
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2014· 1 entry
Died 2014-04-29.
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2012· 2 entries
Owing to Parkinson's disease after being diagnosed the previous year
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“s disease in 2011. On 29 April 2014, he died of pneumonia at a London hospital, aged 71. He was survived by his wife Linda and his four children. Among the actors who paid tribute at Hoskins”
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2010· 1 entry
For the first time in his life, not to vote for Labour, by then led by Gordon Brown
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2009· 2 entries
Won an International Emmy Award for Best Actor for his appearance on the BBC One drama The Street
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Returned to television for Jimmy McGovern's drama series The Street, playing a publican who opposes a local gangster
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2007· 2 entries
That he regretted starring as Mario in Super Mario Bros
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Hoskins appeared in the music video for Jamie T's single "Sheila"
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Donostia Award (2002).
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1997· 2 entries
Awarded European Film Award for Best Actor for Twenty Four Seven (1997).
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Had a cameo as Ginger Spice's disguise in the Spice Girls' film, Spice World
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1983· 1 entry
Hoskins voiced an advert for Weetabix and, during the late 1980s and early 1990s, he appeared in advertising for British Gas and British Telecom (now BT Group)
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1981· 1 entry
Starred with Helen Mirren in The Duchess of Malfi at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester and the London Roundhouse
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1974· 2 entries
Hoskins co-starred with John Thaw in the sitcom Thick as Thieves for London Weekend Television
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And in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh at the Aldwych Theatre in 1976 as Rocky the bartender, opposite Patrick Stewart
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1968· 1 entry
At the Victoria Theatre in Stoke-on-Trent, in a production of Romeo and Juliet in which he played a servant named Peter
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1942· 1 entry
Born 1942-10-26.
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