RIP Bob Hoskins

[Prospero]

The great british film and stage actor Bob Hoskins has died at the age of 71. Best known for Who Killed Roger Rabbit and the long Good Friday. I first saw him on stage in a national Theatre Production of the classic musical "Guys and Dolls" as Nathan Detroit. He was magic.

RIP Bob..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27224995

[robertlouis]

The great british film and stage actor Bob Hoskins has died at the age of 71. Best known for Who Killed Roger Rabbit and the long Good Friday. I first saw him on stage in a national Theatre Production of the classic musical "Guys and Dolls" as Nathan Detroit. He was magic.

RIP Bob..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27224995

Sad news indeed. A fine actor and by all accounts a very nice man too. I remember him first from the Dennis Potter BBC series "Pennies from Heaven", but most memorably as Harold Shand in "The Long Good Friday", an under-rated and very prophetic film for which he should have received greater recognition. He could exude both menace and tenderness.

[Simon_R]

What a loss :-(

One of my all time favourite actors

[youngblood61]

R.i.p

[GroobySteven]

:-( Enjoyed everything but my favourite by far was Mona Lisa.

[Stavros]

Hoskins was an actor with a diverse range -apart from the working-class types he played, such as the gangster Shand in that mediocre film The Long Good Friday (1980), he was Iago to Anthony Hopkins Othello (1981), played an emerging gangster in the odd and rarely seen film Inserts (1974) about the early days of porn in Hollywood, and Mr Verloc in a filmed version of Conrad's The Secret Agent (1996). He was, I understand, much loved in the theatre but it seems achievements in the theatre if not recorded only live on in reviews and memories. His mother was a Romani from Germany, and before he went into acting he looked after camels in Syria, worked on a Kibbutz in Israel (these items from his entry in IMDB) and thus it might be that his diverse jobs as a young man equipped him for the roles he later player. I admit I have not seen either of the films that he directed, The Raggedy Rawney (1988, and inspired by his mother), and Rainbow (1995). Parkinson's at such a young age, and then pneumonia. A sad end to a career that gave so much.

[maxpower]

I always thought he was great and funny in his small role as Spoor, the Central Services repairman in Terry Gilliam's Brazil.


Brazil (4/10) Movie CLIP - Central Services Pays a Visit (1985) HD - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B61_5sRoBI)


Brazil (9/10) Movie CLIP - Harry Wastes Central Services (1985) HD - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olXUIcb80N0)

[rodinuk]

RIP Bob.

I remember him doing some adult literacy programmes for the Beeb early on

[LibertyHarkness]

wow only 71 ... thats fairly young . sad loss he was a great actor .

[EZWind]

Gotta add to the list one o my favorite roles....as Owney Madden who, along w/ partner Fred Gwyne were the mob guys that ran the Cotton Club. Thanx, Bob, for a stellar career.

[trish]

This took me completely by surprise. I still think of him as a strong and vital hard-ass.