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Robert William "Bob" Hoskins, Jr. (born 26 October 1942 – 29 April 2014) is 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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An Accidental Studio (2019)
As: Himself (archive footage)
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 Harrison.
Directed by: Bill Jones | Kim Leggatt | Ben Timlett
Stars: Helen Mirren | Bob Hoskins | Michael Palin | Richard E. Grant | George Harrison
Super Mario Bros: This Ain't No Video Game (2014)
As: (archive footage)
A documentary about the making of the live-action Super Mario Bros. movie.
Runtime: 56 min.
Directed by: David Gregory
Stars: John Leguizamo | Annabel Jankel | Rocky Morton | Roland Joffé | Parker Bennett
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
As: Muir
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. Almost a decade later, a grown Snow White is still in the clutches of the Queen. In order to obtain immortality, The Evil Queen needs the heart of Snow White. After Snow escapes the castle, the Queen sends the Huntsman to find her in the Dark Forest.
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Rupert Sanders
Stars: Kristen Stewart | Ian McShane | Chris Hemsworth | Charlize Theron | Sam Claflin
Outside Bet (2012)
As: Percy 'Smudge' Smith
A group of print workers in 1980s London club together to buy a race horse.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Sacha Bennett
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Vincent Regan | Jenny Agutter | Calum MacNab | Phil Davis
Her Master's Voice (2012)
As: Himself
Internationally acclaimed ventriloquist Nina Conti, takes the bereaved puppets of her mentor and erstwhile lover Ken Campbell on a pilgrimage to 'Venthaven' the resting place for puppets of dead ventriloquists. She gets to know her latex and wooden travelling partners along the way, and with them deconstructs herself and her lost love in this ventriloquial docu-mocumentary requiem. Ken Campbell was a ...
Runtime: 64 min.
Directed by: Nina Conti
Stars: Jim Broadbent | Nina Conti | Daisy Campbell | Brad Cummings | Nacho Estrada
Neverland (2011)
As: Mr. Smee
Raised on the streets of turn-of-the century London, orphaned Peter and his pals survive by their fearless wits as cunning young pickpockets. Now, they've been rounded up by their mentor Jimmy Hook to snatch a priceless, some believe, magical treasure which transports them to another world. Neverland is a realm of white jungles and legendary mysteries of eternal youth, where unknown friends and enemies ...
Stars: Cas Anvar | Keira Knightley | Anna Friel | Charlie Rowe | Charlotte Atkinson
Will (2011)
As: Davey
Will is an 2012 British sports drama directed by Ellen Perry and starring Damian Lewis, Jane March and Bob Hoskins. .At the start of the film, eleven year-old Liverpool fan Will Brennan is at a boarding school in the south of England, due to his father Gareth's (Lewis) inability to look after him following the death of his mother. Gareth arrives one day out of the blue, with two tickets ...
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Ellen Perry
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Damian Lewis | Rebekah Staton | Perry Eggleton
Made in Dagenham (2010)
As: Albert Passingham
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Nigel Cole
Stars: Sally Hawkins | Geraldine James | Bob Hoskins | Miranda Richardson | Simon Nehan
A Christmas Carol (2009)
As: Fezziwig / Old Joe
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Stars: Gary Oldman | Daryl Sabara | Colin Firth | Jim Carrey | Steve Valentine
Pinocchio (2008)
As: Geppetto
The enchanted story of Pinocchio.
Runtime: 179 min.
Directed by: Alberto Sironi
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Robbie Kay | Violante Placido | Alessandro Gassman | Joss Ackland
Doomsday (2008)
As: Bill Nelson
A lethal virus spreads throughout the British isles,infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. To contain the threat, acting authorities brutally quarantine the country as it succumbs to fear and chaos. The quarantine is successful. Three decades later, the Reaper virus violently resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country ...
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Neil Marshall
Stars: David O'Hara | Rhona Mitra | Bob Hoskins | Alexander Siddig | Malcolm McDowell
Sparkle (2007)
As: Vince
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 estranged daughter, too.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Neil Hunter | Tom Hunsinger
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Stockard Channing | Lesley Manville | Shaun Evans | Anthony Stewart Head
Go Go Tales (2007)
As: The Baron
A financial struggle between owners of a go-go club threatens its future.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Abel Ferrara
Stars: Riccardo Scamarcio | Bob Hoskins | Willem Dafoe | Matthew Modine | Asia Argento
Ruby Blue (2007)
As: Jack
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.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Jan Dunn
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Josiane Balasko | Josef Altin | Jody Latham | Jessica Stewart
Outlaw (2007)
As: Walter Lewis
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 see as the wrongs of society.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Nick Love
Stars: Lennie James | Sean Bean | Rupert Friend | Danny Dyer | Sean Harris
The Wind in the Willows (2006)
As: Badger
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 within yet another version of Kenneth Grahame's classic book.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Rachel Talalay
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Matt Lucas | Jim Carter | Imelda Staunton | Lee Ingleby
Hollywoodland (2006)
As: Eddie Mannix
The complicated life and controversial suicide of George Reeves is investigated by a fictional private detective who finds that there are reasons to suspect that Reeves may not have killed himself after all. The detective also finds that there is a little of George Reeves in himself, and maybe, each of us.
Runtime: 126 min.
Directed by: Allen Coulter
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Lois Smith | Adrien Brody | Diane Lane | Ben Affleck
Paris, je t'aime (2006)
As: Bob (Pigalle)
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Isabel Coixet | Wes Craven | Sylvain Chomet | Gurinder Chadha | Frédéric Auburtin | Olivier Assayas | Alfonso Cuarón | Gérard Depardieu | Christopher Doyle | Richard LaGravenese | Vincenzo Natali | Alexander Payne | Walter Salles | Oliver Schmitz | Nobuhiro Suwa | Daniela Thomas | Tom Tykwer | Gus Van Sant | Ethan Coen | Joel Coen | Bruno Podalydès
Stars: Maggie Gyllenhaal | Natalie Portman | Willem Dafoe | Steve Buscemi | Axel Kiener
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006)
As: Winston
Garfield is back and this time Garfield and his canine sidekick Odie follows their owner, Jon Arbuckle, to England, the U.K. may never recover, as Garfield is mistaken for a look-alike, regal cat who has inherited a castle.
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Tim Hill
Stars: Bill Murray | Ian Abercrombie | Billy Connolly | Jennifer Love Hewitt | Breckin Meyer
Stay (2005)
As: Dr. Leon Patterson
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 also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his parents. As reality starts to contradict fact, Sam spirals into an unstable mental state. Then he finds a clue as to how and when Henry may try to kill himself, and races ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Marc Forster
Stars: Ewan McGregor | Kate Burton | Elizabeth Reaser | Naomi Watts | Ryan Gosling
Mrs Henderson Presents (2005)
As: Vivian Van Damm
Eccentric 70-year-old widow purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. After starting an innovative continuous variety review, which is copied by other theaters, they begin to lose money. Mrs Henderson suggests they add female nudity similar to the Moulin Rouge in Paris
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Stephen Frears
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Kelly Reilly | Christopher Guest | Judi Dench | Will Young
Unleashed (2005)
As: Bart
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 with a collar so they can make money in fight clubs, where Danny is the main contender. When Bart's crew is in a car accident, Danny escapes and meets a blind, kindhearted piano tuner who takes him in and uses music to free the fighter's long-buried heart.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Louis Leterrier
Stars: Morgan Freeman | Bob Hoskins | Jet Li | Vincent Regan | Dylan Brown
Son of the Mask (2005)
As: Odin
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 "born of the mask", he discovers just how looney child raising can be.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Lawrence Guterman
Stars: Alan Cumming | Jamie Kennedy | Steven Wright | Kal Penn | Traylor Howard
Beyond the Sea (2004)
As: Charlie Cassotto Maffia
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 tale of his remarkable life. Kevin Spacey did his own singing for Beyond the Sea, recreating Bobby Darin's vocal style with uncanny accuracy.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Kevin Spacey
Stars: Kevin Spacey | Bob Hoskins | Kate Bosworth | John Goodman | Brenda Blethyn
Vanity Fair (2004)
As: Sir Pitt Crawley
Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any means possible. A mere ascension into the heights of society is simply not enough. So Becky finds a patron in the powerful Marquess of Steyne whose whims ...
Runtime: 141 min.
Directed by: Mira Nair
Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Gabriel Byrne | Reese Witherspoon | Romola Garai | James Purefoy
Den of Lions (2003)
A Hungarian gypsy working for a Russian mobster becomes a double agent for the FBI.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: James Bruce
Stars: David O'Hara | Bob Hoskins | Stephen Dorff | Ian Hart | Laura Fraser
The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)
As: Henry
A young Englishman is dispatched to Sarawak to become part of the British colonial government. He encounters some unorthodox local traditions, and finds himself faced with tough decisions of the heart involving the beautiful Selima, the unwitting object of his affections.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Guy Jenkin
Stars: Jessica Alba | Emily Mortimer | Hugh Dancy | Brenda Blethyn | Christopher Ling Lee Ian
The Good Pope: Pope John XXIII (2003)
As: Angelo Roncalli / Pope John XXIII
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 his life. When he feels a need to serve God, Angelo goes to study theology in Bergamo, and in Apollinare School (Rome) and becomes a priest. During his studies, he gets to know his two dearest friends, Mattia and Nicola. Very soon, most people see marvelous ...
Runtime: 180 min.
Directed by: Ricky Tognazzi
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Roberto Citran | Carlo Cecchi | Sergio Bini Bustric | Fabrizio Vidale
Maid in Manhattan (2002)
As: Lionel Bloch
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, hotel guest and senatorial candidate Christopher Marshall meets Marisa and mistakes her for a wealthy socialite. After an enchanting evening together, the two fall madly in love. But when Marisa's true identity is revealed, issues of class and social status ...
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Wayne Wang
Stars: Stanley Tucci | Ralph Fiennes | Jennifer Lopez | Natasha Richardson | Tyler Posey
Where Eskimos Live (2002)
As: Sharkey
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 strange and enlightening journey through war torn Bosnia. As they struggle to get out of the country and fight to stay alive, they find a special love and compassion from which emerges their ultimate moral and spiritual redemption.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Tomasz Wiszniewski
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Andrzej Chyra | Krzysztof Majchrzak | Sergiusz Żymełka | Mirosław Baka
The Lost World (2001)
As: Prof. Challenger
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 Challenger, far less of a bully than Doyle's character, but his slightly stereotyped companions are nicely filled out by a solid cast. James Fox is Challenger's more timid but still covertly adventurous rival, Tom Ward is the moustachioed big game hunter who ...
Runtime: 150 min.
Directed by: Stuart Orme
Stars: Matthew Rhys | Bob Hoskins | James Fox | Elaine Cassidy | Tom Ward
Last Orders (2001)
As: Ray
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 watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final request, 'Last Orders', that his ashes be scattered in the sea at Margate. The movie follows his mates, Ray, Lenny and Vic and his foster son Vince as they journey ...
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Fred Schepisi
Stars: Michael Caine | David Hemmings | Helen Mirren | Bob Hoskins | Tom Courtenay
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
As: Nikita Khrushchev
Enemy at the Gates is a war film from Jean-Jacques Annaud from 2001 that takes place during the battle of Stalingard in World War II between the Russians and the Germans.
Runtime: 131 min.
Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Stars: Ed Harris | Bob Hoskins | Jude Law | Rachel Weisz | Joseph Fiennes
Don Quixote (2000)
As: Sancho Panza
The classic tale of a man's dream, his epic journey, and one true love.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Peter Yates
Stars: Lambert Wilson | Bob Hoskins | Isabella Rossellini | John Lithgow | Vanessa Williams
Felicia's Journey (1999)
As: Joe Hilditch
A solitary middle-aged bachelor and a naive Irish teenager transform one another's lives to arrive at a place of recognition, redemption and wisdom in Atom Egoyan's adaptation of William Trevor's celebrated 1994 novel. Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a helpful catering manager whose kindness masks a ...
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Atom Egoyan
Stars: Gerard McSorley | Bob Hoskins | Arsinée Khanjian | Peter McDonald | Elaine Cassidy
A Room for Romeo Brass (1999)
As: Steven Laws
Two twelve-year-old boys, Romeo and Gavin, undergo an extraordinary test of character and friendship when Morell, a naive but eccentric and dangerous stranger, comes between them. Morell befriends with the two boys and later asks them to help him pursue Romeo's beautiful elder sister. He gradually becomes more violent after she rejects him.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Shane Meadows
Stars: Frank Harper | Paddy Considine | Johann Myers | Andrew Shim | Vicky McClure
Captain Jack (1999)
As: Jack Armistead
A sea captain with a vessel not deemed sea worthy by the ship inspectors assembles a motley crew to sail along the path of Captain Scoresby, a sea captain who sailed from Whitby in northern England to the Arctic in 1791. His crew includes bickering sisters, an Australian hitchhiker who is hiding from his girl friends, and the seaman's confidante who runs a local trailer park. Putting the ship to sea, the ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Robert Young
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Sadie Frost | Gemma Jones | Anna Massey | Peter McDonald
Parting Shots (1999)
As: Gerd Layton
Harry Sterndale, a failed photographer, is told that he has only three months to live due to him getting cancer. After thinking things over he decides that since he is dying anyway that he will kill or destroy all the people that has ever crossed or hurt him during his entire life. So Parting Shots becomes literally the shots fired by Harry when he knows he is parting this earth. After all, he will be dead ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Michael Winner
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Ben Kingsley | John Cleese | Felicity Kendal | Chris Rea
American Virgin (1999)
As: Joey
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 -- live on the Internet, for the whole world to see.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Marois
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Octavia Spencer | Sally Kellerman | Mena Suvari | Ira Israel
The White River Kid (1999)
Two con men are traveling through the American South when they are held hostage by a serial killer, who is running from the authorities.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Arne Glimcher
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Ellen Barkin | Antonio Banderas | Wes Bentley | Kim Dickens
Cousin Bette (1998)
As: Cesar Crevel
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 brother-in-law, Baron Hulot, and her niece, Hortense Hulot. Failing to do so, she instead finds solace and company in a handsome young sculptor she saves from starvation. But the aspiring artist soon finds love in the arms of another ...
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Des McAnuff
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Elisabeth Shue | Jessica Lange | Kelly Macdonald | Hugh Laurie
Spice World (1997)
As: Himself
The film follows the Spice Girls and their entourage (mostly fictional characters) - manager Clifford, his assistant Deborah, filmmaker Piers (who is trying to shoot a documentary on "the real Spice Girls") and others in their everyday life.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Bob Spiers
Stars: Geri Halliwell | Melanie Brown | Emma Bunton | Victoria Beckham | Melanie Chisholm
24 7: Twenty Four Seven (1997)
As: Alan Darcy
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 with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in: Boxing. Darcy opens a boxing club, aiming to bring the rival gangs together.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Shane Meadows
Stars: Frank Harper | Bob Hoskins | Bruce Jones | Annette Badland | Danny Nussbaum
Michael (1996)
As: Vartan Malt
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.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Nora Ephron
Stars: Bob Hoskins | William Hurt | Andie MacDowell | John Travolta | Jean Stapleton
The Secret Agent (1996)
As: Verloe
In 1880s London, pornographic bookseller Verloc is a double agent for the Russian government, providing information to Chief Inspector Heat about a lazy anarchist organization. In order for the anarchists to be arrested, an act of terrorism must occur. So Verloc decides to set up bombs – which leads to tragedy – not only for himself but also for his family, including wife Winnie and brother-in-law, ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Christopher Hampton
Stars: Christian Bale | Bob Hoskins | Gérard Depardieu | Patricia Arquette | Jim Broadbent
Rainbow (1996)
As: Frank Bailey
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 belief, they achieve the impossible, finding and riding the multicolored arc.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Bob Hoskins
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Jacob Tierney | Willy Lavendel | Jonathan Schuman | Eleanor Misrahi
Balto (1995)
As: Boris the Goose (voice)
An outcast half-wolf risks his life to prevent a deadly epidemic from ravaging Nome, Alaska.
Runtime: 78 min.
Directed by: Simon Wells
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Kevin Bacon | Jim Cummings | Bridget Fonda | Phil Collins
Nixon (1995)
As: J. Edgar Hoover
An all-star cast powers this epic look at American President Richard M. Nixon, a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within. Spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end his presidency.
Runtime: 192 min.
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Stars: Ed Harris | Powers Boothe | Bob Hoskins | Anthony Hopkins | Joan Allen
The Forgotten Toys (1995)
As: Teddy
A festive tale about two lost toys searching for a new home.
Runtime: 25 min.
Directed by: Graham Ralph
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Joanna Lumley | Andrew Sachs
The Big Freeze (1993)
As: Sidney, plumber's mate
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. Everything that can go wrong for these plumbers goes wrong.
Runtime: 45 min.
Directed by: Eric Sykes
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Donald Pleasence | Eila Roine | Eric Sykes | Raija Laakso
Super Mario Bros. (1993)
As: Mario Mario
Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only hope to save our universe from invasion by the dino dictator, Koopa.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Annabel Jankel | Rocky Morton
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Samantha Mathis | John Leguizamo | Fisher Stevens | Dennis Hopper
Blue Ice (1992)
As: Sam Garcia
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.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Russell Mulcahy
Stars: Michael Caine | Ian Holm | Bob Hoskins | Sean Young | Todd Boyce
Passed Away (1992)
As: Johnny Scanlan
A bunch of eccentric relatives gather for their patriarch's funeral.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Charlie Peters
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Tim Curry | Frances McDormand | William Petersen | Blair Brown
The Inner Circle (1991)
As: Beria
The true story of Ivan Sanchin, the KGB officer who was Stalin's private film projectionist from 1939 until the dictator's death. Told from Sanchin's view, the sympathetic but tragically flawed hero maintains unwavering faith in his "Master" despite the arrest of his neighbors and his involvement with their daughter, his wife's affair with the chilling State Security chief Lavrentii Beria and her ...
Runtime: 137 min.
Directed by: Andrei Konchalovsky
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Tom Hulce | Lolita Davidovich | Aleksandr Zbruev | Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
Hook (1991)
As: Smee
The boy who wasn't supposed to grow up—Peter Pan—did just that, becoming a soulless corporate lawyer whose workaholism could cost him his wife and kids. But a trip to see Granny Wendy in London, where the vengeful Capt. Hook kidnaps Peter's kids and forces Peter to return to Neverland, could lead to a chance at redemption, in this family-oriented fantasy from director Steven Spielberg.
Runtime: 142 min.
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Maggie Smith | Julia Roberts | Robin Williams | Dustin Hoffman
Shattered (1991)
As: Gus Klein
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 again. He keeps getting flashbacks about events and places that he can't remember. He meets pet shop owner and part time private detective Gus Klein who is supposedly done some work for him prior to the accident. Klein helps Merrick to find out more...
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen
Stars: Tom Berenger | Bob Hoskins | Corbin Bernsen | Greta Scacchi | Joanne Whalley
The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish (1991)
As: Louis Aubinard
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 himself doing a voice track for a porno movie with Natasha Richardson. Hoskins finds his model for Jesus in Jeff Goldblum and a romantic triangle begins in which Goldblum finds adoring crowds believing him to be Jesus and then begins to believe it himself.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Ben Lewin
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Jeff Goldblum | Michel Blanc | Natasha Richardson | Carlos Kloster
Mermaids (1990)
As: Lou Landsky
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 to a small Massachusetts town and Mrs. Flax begins dating a shopkeeper, Charlotte and her 9-year-old sister, Kate, hope that they can finally settle down. But when Charlotte's attraction to an older man gets in the way, the family must learn to accept each ...
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Richard Benjamin
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Christina Ricci | Winona Ryder | Cher | Michael Schoeffling
Heart Condition (1990)
As: Jack Moony
A bigoted policeman is given the heart of a slain black defense lawyer,who returns as a ghost to ask the cop to help take down the men who murdered him
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: James D. Parriott
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Denzel Washington | Ray Baker | Chloe Webb | Ja'net DuBois
Tummy Trouble (1989)
As: Eddie Valiant
Roger Rabbit once again is chosen for the dangerous task of babysitting Baby Herman and everything is going to be just fine.
Runtime: 7 min.
Directed by: Rob Minkoff | Frank Marshall
Stars: Corey Burton | Charles Fleischer | Kathleen Turner | Lou Hirsch | April Winchell
The Raggedy Rawney (1988)
As: Darky
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 escape. The young man, now very emotionally distraught, dresses in women's clothes and eventually joins a passing gypsy caravan, who think him a young girl... as well as a kind of seer, or 'rawney'. In time, however, he regains ...
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Bob Hoskins
Stars: Dexter Fletcher | Bob Hoskins | Zoë Wanamaker | Zoë Nathenson | Timmy Lang
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
As: Eddie Valiant
'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. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Christopher Lloyd | Charles Fleischer | Stubby Kaye | Joanna Cassidy
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
As: James Madden
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 of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to open.
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Jack Clayton
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Maggie Smith | Ian McNeice | Wendy Hiller | Marie Kean
A Prayer for the Dying (1987)
As: Father Michael Da Costa
Jack Higgins' straightforward thriller about a guilt-ridden IRA bomber forced into "one last job"
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Mike Hodges
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Mickey Rourke | Christopher Fulford | Alan Bates | Sammi Davis
The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball (1987)
As: The Secret Policeman (voice)
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 growing number of rock musicians supporting Amnesty. Instead of the live show being primarily a comedy show with a few musical cameos, the event made a point of giving equal emphasis to the comedy and the music.
Runtime: 96 min.
Stars: John Cleese | Robbie Coltrane | Jackson Browne | Chet Atkins | Ben Elton
Mona Lisa (1986)
As: George
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 call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King's Cross days. That's when George's troubles just start.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Neil Jordan
Stars: Michael Caine | Clarke Peters | Bob Hoskins | Cathy Tyson | Robbie Coltrane
Sweet Liberty (1986)
As: Stanley Gould
Michael has written a schollarly book on the revolutionary war. He has sold the film rights. The arrival of the film crew seriously disrupts him as actors want to change their characters, directors want to re-stage battles, and he becomes very infatuated with Faith who will play the female lead in the movie. At the same time, he is fighting with his crazy mother who thinks the Devil lives in her kitchen, ...
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Alan Alda
Stars: Michael Caine | Bob Hoskins | Michelle Pfeiffer | Alan Alda | Lillian Gish
Mussolini and I (1985)
As: Benito Mussolini
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 betrayal of his son-in-law and untimely demise.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Alberto Negrin
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Susan Sarandon | Anthony Hopkins | Annie Girardot | Barbara De Rossi
Brazil (1985)
As: Spoor
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 beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of ...
Runtime: 132 min.
Directed by: Terry Gilliam
Stars: Ian Holm | Robert De Niro | Bob Hoskins | Jonathan Pryce | Katherine Helmond
The Cotton Club (1984)
As: Owney Madden
The story of the people that frequented Harlem's famous nightclubs, 'The Cotton Club', and those that ran it.
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Diane Lane | Richard Gere | Gregory Hines | Lonette McKee
Lassiter (1984)
As: Inspector John Becker
Scotland Yard and the FBI force a thief and his girlfriend to steal Nazi diamonds from a German countess.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Roger Young
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Lauren Hutton | Jane Seymour | Tom Selleck | Joe Regalbuto
The Honorary Consul (1983)
As: Colonel Perez
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 find a better life. Along the way he meets an array of people, including British Consul Charley Fortnum, a representative in Latin America who is trying to keep Revolution from occurring. He is also a remorseful alcoholic. Another person the doctor meets ...
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: John Mackenzie
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Richard Gere | A Martinez | Joaquim de Almeida | Elpidia Carrillo
Pink Floyd - The Wall (1982)
As: Rock and Roll Manager
A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Alan Parker
Stars: James Laurenson | Eleanor David | Bob Geldof | Christine Hargreaves | Alex McAvoy
The Long Good Friday (1980)
As: Harold Shand
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 to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his ...
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: John Mackenzie
Stars: Helen Mirren | Bob Hoskins | Bryan Marshall | Paul Freeman | Dave King
Brecht and Co (1979)
Brecht's company of actors tells the story of Bertolt Brecht: his theatre, plays, poetry and his life.
Runtime: 65 min.
Directed by: Robert Vas
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Freddie Jones | Barry Stanton | Nick Brimble | Emrys James
Zulu Dawn (1979)
As: C.S.M. Williams
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership. Cy Endfield co-wrote the epic prequel Zulu Dawn 15 years after his enormously popular Zulu. Set in 1879, this film depicts the catastrophic Battle of Isandhlwana, which remains the worst defeat of the British army by natives, with the British contingent outnumbered 16-to-1 by the Zulu tribesmen. The film's ...
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: Douglas Hickox
Stars: Bob Hoskins | John Mills | Peter O'Toole | Denholm Elliott | Burt Lancaster
Royal Flash (1975)
As: Police Constable
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 of devious nobles with their own agenda. At their urging, Flashman agrees to re-create himself as a bogus Prussian nobleman to woo a beautiful duchess. But the half-baked plan quickly comes unraveled, and he's soon on the run ...
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Richard Lester
Stars: Oliver Reed | Malcolm McDowell | Florinda Bolkan | Alan Bates | Tom Bell
If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them (1974)
As: The Sexton
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.
Runtime: 60 min.
Directed by: Bill Hays
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Geoffrey Bayldon | Richard Beckinsale | Leonard Rossiter | Ken Wynne
Inserts (1974)
As: Big Mac
A young, once-great Hollywood film director refuses to accept changing times during the early 1930s, and confines himself to his decaying mansion to make silent porn flicks.
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: John Byrum
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Richard Dreyfuss | Veronica Cartwright | Jessica Harper | Stephen Davies
The National Health (1973)
As: Foster
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 contrasts the appalling conditions in a overcrowded London hospital with a soap opera playing on the televisions there. In an ingenious touch, the same actors appear in the "real" story as well as the "TV" one, thus blurring the distinctions ...
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Jack Gold
Stars: Eleanor Bron | Lynn Redgrave | Donald Sinden | Jim Dale | Mervyn Johns
Up the Front (1972)
As: Recruiting Sergeant
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. But one evening he's hypnotised by a drunken hypnotist (Stanley Holloway) into being brave, but he fails to be released from it. So with his yellow streak gone Lurk is down that army office before you can say "titter ye not." Off to war he goes, mingling ...
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Bob Kellett
Stars: Bill Fraser | William Mervyn | Linda Gray | Jonathan Cecil | Frankie Howerd