Movies
The new English film “Mona Lisa” confirms that Bob Hoskins is a very, very good and disciplined actor, as was clear from his performance in the original television version of “Pennies From Heaven” and his Iago to Anthony Hopkins’ Othello, and subsequently from “The Long Good Friday,” “The Cotton Club” and “Sweet Liberty.”
June 19, 1986
Obituaries
British actor Bob Hoskins, whose varied career ranged from “Mona Lisa” to “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?”
April 30, 2014
I’ve been missing the wonderfully warm mischief that British character actor Bob Hoskins brought to the big screen since a Parkinson’s diagnosis sidelined him in 2012.
British character actor Bob Hoskins, who has died at age 71, made a career playing tough guys, gangsters and blue-collar blokes with a unique combination of menace and charm.
Entertainment & Arts
Noble romantic stirrings and the ideal of courtly love come down to pure lust in the rarely staged post-Elizabethan tragedy “The Changeling.”
April 16, 1994
Al Capone would have admired Bob Hoskins.
Aug. 31, 1986
Bob Hoskins, who began his film career in edgy independent movies, stars as a tough guy with a heart in Shane Meadows’ low-budget ‘TwentyFourSeven.’
April 25, 1998
British actor Bob Hoskins, whose varied career included “Mona Lisa” and “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” has died at 71.
Bob Hoskins, a British actor whose powerful screen presence earned him a reputation as “the Cockney Cagney” and who, at 5 feet 6 and with a face he likened to a squashed cabbage, gave the short, bald men of the world a reason to swagger, has died.
Movies * The genial English actor plays a man with a sinister secret in his latest film, a role he says ‘could have been me.’
Nov. 19, 1999