Bob Hoskins

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National Health, The (1973): Dir. Jack Gold
Feat. Lynn Redgrave, Colin Blakely, Eleanor Bron…; Riotous black comedy focusing on the appalling conditions at an under–funded National Health Service hospital, based on the acclaimed 1969 play…
Inserts (1975): Dir. John Byrum
Feat. Richard Dreyfuss, Jessica Harper, Bob Hoskins…; Talky, tawdry film–within–a–film about a washed–up director (Dreyfuss) who inserts SUSPIRIA's Jessica Harper as a body double…
Pennies From Heaven (Mini Series) (1978): Dir. Piers Haggard
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Cheryl Campbell, Gemma Craven…; The original television version of Dennis Potter's acclaimed and much–remembered musical drama, set around philandering sheet–music…
Zulu Dawn (1979): Dir. Douglas Hickox
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole, Phil Daniels…; Prequel to ZULU is a vivid recreation of the Battle of Isandhlwana.
Long Good Friday, The (1980): Dir. John Mackenzie
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren; Electrifying, influential account of hoodlum rivalry in contemporary London with Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren matching an intelligent, gritty script.
Othello (1981): Dir. Jonathan Miller
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Bob Hoskins; Part of the BBC's excellent series of Shakespeare productions, filmed in a 'theatrical' TV environment utilising the best of English acting talent.
Cotton Club, The (1984): Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Gregory Hines…; Richard Gere heads the ensemble for Coppola's glossy musical melodrama set in the thick of New York's glitzy gangster culture of the 1930s.
Brazil (1985): Dir. Terry Gilliam
Feat. Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Ian Holm…; Daydreaming bureaucrat Jonathan Pryce becomes unwittingly involved with an underground superhero and a mystery woman before falling victim to his own…
Dunera Boys, The (Mini-series) (1985): Dir. Ben Lewin
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Warren Mitchell, Julia Blake; WW2 set mini–series following a group of suspected Jewish spies sent from England to a POW camp in NSW, Australia. Nicely balanced historical…
Mussolini and I (1985): Dir. Alberto Negrin
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Anthony Hopkins, Susan Sarandon…; The last days of Il Duce as embodied by Bob Hoskins in this strong Italian miniseries.
Mona Lisa (1986): Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Michael Caine; Gritty British crime thriller, with Bob Hoskins in great form as a crim fresh out of prison.
Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987): Dir. Jack Clayton
Feat. Maggie Smith, Bob Hoskins; An anguished spinster pins romantic hopes on a sweet–talking business man who has other intentions. Melancholy fare, remarkably acted by Maggie…
Prayer for the Dying (1987): Dir. Mike Hodges
Feat. Mickey Rourke, Bob Hoskins, Alan Bates…; Adaptation of Jack Higgins' novel in which Mickey Rourke plays a retired IRA hitman who is enticed into one final killing, with disasterous…
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1989): Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy…; A staggering blend of live–action and brillaint animation conjures up a believable world where people and cartoons…
Mermaids (1990): Dir. Richard Benjamin
Feat. Cher, Winona Ryder, Christina Ricci…; Cher plays the sexpot mom of square daughter Winona Ryder who aspires to be a nun. Slight but affecting tale set in small town '60s America, with Bob…
Inner Circle, The (1991): Dir. Andrei Konchalovsky
Feat. Tom Hulce, Bob Hoskins, Lolita Davidovich; A naive Muscovite (Tom Hulce) is initiated into a world of privilege as Stalin's projectionist. True–life saga of Soviet life under iron rule…
Shattered (1991): Dir. Wolfgang Petersen
Feat. Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Greta Scacchi…; Tom Berenger plays an amnesia victim perturbed with the fragments of his former life and the suspicious antics of his friends. An innocent victim or…
Hook (1991): Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts…; Spielberg's big–budget rendition of the magical fairy tale. Robin Williams stars as a grown–up Peter Pan enticed to Neverland to reclaim…
Favour, The Watch and the Very Big Fish, The (1992): Dir. Ben Lewin
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Jeff Goldblum, Natasha Richardson…; In gay Paris, Bob Hoskins plays a frustrated photographer whose life complicates after friend Jeff Goldblum asks a most unusual favour.
Super Mario Brothers (1993): Dir. Rocky Morton, Annabel Jankel
Feat. Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Samantha Mathis…; Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo are incarnated as the vid–game characters – plumbers who slip in saving the world between odd jobs. Will…
Nixon (1995): Dir. Oliver Stone
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Ed Harris…; With almost Shakespearian gravitas, Anthony Hopkins portrays a flawed but fully–rounded Richard Nixon. Instead of the anticipated whitewash,…
Balto (1995): Dir. Simon Wells
Feat. Kevin Bacon, Bob Hoskins, Bridget Fonda…; When diptheria threatens the children of an Alaskan village, a sled–dog team are called in to supply the serum. Balto, the outcast…
Michael (1996): Dir. Nora Ephron
Feat. John Travolta, William Hurt, Andie MacDowell…; Not even the star presence of John Travolta, William Hurt, and Andie MacDowell can revive this abysmal comic–fantasy about a cynical tabloid…
Secret Agent, The (1996): Dir. Christopher Hampton
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Gerard Depardieu, Patricia Arquette…; Faithful period adaptation of Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel concerning political intrigues in Edwardian London. Russian spy Bob Hoskins is ordered out…
Twentyfour Seven (1997): Dir. Shane Meadows
Feat. Bob Hoskins; The cockney director of low–budget miracle SMALL TIME, enters the ring with a few more bob and a larger cast, delivering a warm, yet…
Parting Shots (1998): Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Chris Rea, Bob Hoskins, Ben Kingsley…; Once–fashionable photographer Chris Rea finds out he only has months to live, and decides to get his own back at those that have made his life…
Felicia's Journey (1999): Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Elaine Cassidy, Arsinee Khanjian; Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan takes a sideways step to adapt the Birmingham–set novel by William Trevor, a portrait of a serial killer of the…
David Copperfield (Mini-series) (2000): Dir. Simon Curtis
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, Ian McKellen…; Charles Dicken's semi–autobiographical novel (and his own personal favourite) of an aspiring young lad, gets adapted by the BBC, with an…
Enemy at the Gates (2001): Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud
Feat. Jude Law, Ed Harris, Rachel Weisz…; A big–budget recreation of the crucial WWII battle of Stalingrad, in which Germans and Russians fought it out till there was a toll of over 1…
Last Orders (2001): Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, David Hemmings…; A gentle, affecting road trip into mutual nostalgia among a group of Cockney mates, gathered to scatter the ashes of recently deceased friend Michael…

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