
From the New York Times:
Bob Hoskins, the bullet-shaped British film star who brought a singular mix of charm, menace and Cockney accent to a variety of roles, including the bemused live-action hero of the largely animated “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” has died at 71.
His publicist Clair Dobbs released a statement by his family on Wednesday saying that he had died in a hospital, where he had been treated for pneumonia. No other details were given. A much-honored, Oscar-nominated actor, Mr. Hoskins had announced his retirement in August 2012 after learning he had Parkinson’s disease.
Mr. Hoskins, who had virtually stumbled into acting, found early acclaim as the kind of ruthless British gangster he played in 1980 in his startling breakthrough feature, “The Long Good Friday,” and later in Neil Jordan’s 1986 “Mona Lisa,” which earned him an Academy Award nomination for best actor. But his filmography also included more playful roles. He was the pirate Smee in two variations of “Peter Pan” — Steven Spielberg’s 1991 “Hook” and the 2011 British television production “Neverland.” He played Cher’s unlikely love match in “Mermaids” (1990). And he voiced Charles Dickens’s Old Fezziwig in the 2009 animated version of “A Christmas Carol,” directed by Robert Zemeckis.
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Oh, No I really liked him. This is so sad. May he rest in peace.
Yep.
R.I.P. He was a really good actor. I remember him the most for “The Long Good Friday,” “Mona Lisa,” and “TwentyFourSeven.”
I remember him from Who Framed Roger Rabbit and (believe it or not) Super Mario Bros.
R.I.P. Bob Hoskins, I will always admire your talent-especially in fave film of yours “Mermaids” (co-starring Cher, Christina Ricci, and Winona Ryder)!!
P.S. On the “lighter side of news” have you seen this news article about that KKK member caught having sex with a Black. Male.Prostitute!? That’s right! And to top it off, he is the same one who tried to shoot up the Jewish retirement center, oh irony!!
http://guardianlv.com/2014/04/ku-klux-klan-leader-busted-having-sex-with-black-male-prostitute/
*Speechless*
Yeah, I heard about that, too. Geeweev talked about it in a recent video, and Field Negro talked about it on his blog a few days ago. Like Brothawolf, I am “speechless.”
..Yes! If he is not the poster boy for American hypocrisy for the past 400+ years, then I don’t know who is..
You got that right!