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  • Hoskins: 'Roger Rabbit drove me mad' - 28 October 2009
    -Actor Bob Hoskins was driven to the brink of insanity by his role in 1988 movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit - he spent months suffering hallucinations of cartoon characters from the film.- -The movie combined animation with real-life action and saw Hoskins acting alongs


  • Hoskins' height dilemma - 3 July 2009
    -Actor Bob Hoskins had to risk his safety and turn stunt-man in his latest TV show - after blundering bosses hired a double who was a foot taller than him.- -The Mrs Henderson Presents star stands at just five feet six inches (1.67 metres), and often has a stunt doub

Bob Hoskins - what members say


  • Pink Floyd - The Wall
  • Pink Floyd - The Wall review by from
    Rated - 5 stars A trip to the other side!! 22 June 2005
    ... leading role with the soundtrack in second place and even a suprise cameo from Bob Hoskins! The extras are insightful and extremely well presented and well worth a loo...  
  • A Room For Romeo Brass
  • A Room For Romeo Brass review by from Edinburgh, Scotland
    Rated - 4 stars Brass In Pocket 26 May 2007
    ...h the notion of ordinary young lives being turned upside down, either for good (Bob Hoskins in '24-7') or bad ('Combo' in 'This Is England') by the interference/influence ...  
  • Mermaids
  • Mermaids review by A customer from London
    Rated - 4 stars Totally enjoyable film 31 March 2005
    ...upurb as the sexy mum, Winona Ryder is brilliant as the weird teenage daughter, Bob Hoskins comes across as sweet and cheeky and a young Christianna Ricci is so cute! Such...  

Bob Hoskins - filmography


  • Street, The - Series 3 - Complete (2 discs) on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Timothy Spall,  Anna Friel,  Bob Hoskins
    Director: David Blair
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    From acclaimed writer Jimmy McGovern (Cracker, Hillsborough, Priest) The Street follows the lives and passions of neighbours in a North of England street. This BAFTA, RTS and International Emmy award winning drama sees Timothy Spall reprise his role and will be joined by an all new cast ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 77% from 33 members
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  • Ruby Blue (2008)
    Starring: Bob Hoskins,  Josiane Balasko,  Jody Latham
    Director: Jan Dunn
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 10 members
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  • Doomsday on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Rhona Mitra,  Malcolm McDowell,  Bob Hoskins
    Director: Neil Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    From director Neil Marshall (The Descent, Dog Soldiers) and starring Rhona Mitra (Shooter), Bob Hoskins (Outlaw, Nixon) and Malcom McDowell (Heroes, A Clockwork Orange) Doomsday is an action-packed, science-fiction thriller! In Doomsday, a lethal virus spreads throughout a major country and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 15,581 members
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  • Sparkle (2007)
    Starring: Stockard Channing,  Shaun Evans,  Anthony Head
    Director: Tom Hunsinger,  Neil Hunter
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Sam is a charming, young chancer who has ambitions in the glamorous world of public relations when he moves to London. However, his best laid plans suffer a real setback when true love turns his world upside down in the most unexpected of circumstances.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 18 members
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  • Stay on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Ewan McGregor,  Naomi Watts,  Ryan Gosling
    Director: Marc Forster
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor) is a young psychiatrist who is filling in for a colleague on leave. Among his new patients is Henry Letham (Ryan Gosling), a young art student who hears voices and is seriously contemplating suicide. This resonates strongly with Sam, who rescued his painter girlfriend, ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 12,985 members
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  • Unleashed on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Jet Li,  Morgan Freeman,  Bob Hoskins
    Director: Louis Leterrier
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Danny has been raised as a slave by a gangster in order to become a violent fighting machine and to in turn compete at illegal gladiator-style fight clubs. But when Danny meets a blind piano tune, he experiences kindness for the first time in his life and his world is thrown into disarray...
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 25,224 members
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  • Where Eskimos Live on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Bob Hoskins
    Director: Tomasz Wiszniewski
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The great British actor Bob Hoskins (WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT, MERMAIDS) stars in acclaimed director Tomasz Wiszniewski's stirring drama. The story of a man named Sharkey, who sells babies on the black market and his odd yet touching friendship with a young boy named Vlado, whose life has been ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 338 members
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  • The Lost World on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Bob Hoskins,  James Fox,  Matthew Rhys
    Director: Stuart Orme
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    This BBC presentation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's THE LOST WORLD follows an early 20th-century expedition to discover the existence of dinosaurs. Led by Professor George Challenger (Bob Hoskins), the party encounters primitive humans and various dinosaurs. The cast also includes James Fox, Peter ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 381 members
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  • Last Orders on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Michael Caine,  Bob Hoskins,  Tom Courtenay
    Director: Fred Schepisi
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Fred Schepisi's adaptation of Graham Swift's prize-winning novel is a quietly graceful portrait of four working-class Brits, bound by years of friendship, that unites some of England's finest actors in a powerful and deeply moving ensemble production. Michael Caine stars as Jack Dodd, the ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 3,030 members
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  • Live Virgin on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Bob Hoskins,  Mena Suvari,  Robert Loggia
    Director: Jean-Pierre Marois
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Katrina Batoloti dreams of becoming an actress, her father, however, wants her to train as a barrister. To assert herself she sets out to lose her virginity live on the internet and pay-per-view television...
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 37% from 172 members
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  • Parting Shots (1999)
    Starring: Chris Rea,  Felicity Kendal,  Bob Hoskins
    Director: Michael Winner
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Harry only has a short time to live - but the prognosis is even worse for his enemies. An all-star cast shines in this hilarious black comedy about getting even - and getting away with it.
    Rate this: 1.5 stars out of 5 19% from 10 members
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  • Captain Jack on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Bob Hoskins,  Sadie Frost,  Peter McDonald
    Director: Robert Young
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Bob Hoskins stars in this charming high seas adventure as Captain Jack, a tough, aging seaman whose travels are now restricted to ferrying tourists around Whitby Bay. Fed up with his now staid life, Jack to decides to retrace the steps of his hero, Captain Scorseby, who sailed from England to Jan ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 252 members
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  • Cousin Bette (1998)
    Starring: Jessica Lange,  Elisabeth Shue,  Bob Hoskins
    Director: Des McAnuff
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A spinster, thinks that she takes second place to her cousin Adeline, but she expects to become Lady Hulot on her death and hopes for a marriage proposal from Hector Hulot. But she finds herself offered the post of housekeeper. Deeply upset she leaves for Paris where she plots with Mayor Crevel.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 42% from 18 members
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  • The Secret Agent (1996)
    Starring: Bob Hoskins,  Patricia Arquette,  Gerard Depardieu
    Director: Christopher Hampton
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The life of an undercover Russian agent, posing as a quiet shopkeeper in London in order to infiltrate a ring of anarchists, is thrown into turmoil when his employers order him to plant a bomb at the Greenwich Observatory. Based on the novel by Joseph Conrad.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 35% from 20 members
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  • Nixon on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Joan Allen,  James Woods
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A surprisingly sympathetic account of the life of Richard Nixon from Oliver Stone, NIXON stars Anthony Hopkins as the former American president. Told out of chronological order, the film traces Nixon's life from his strict Quaker upbringing, through his rise in the Republican party, to his wounding ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 2,925 members
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  • Balto on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Kevin Bacon,  Bridget Fonda,  Phil Collins
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Based on the true adventure of an Alaskan sled dog named Balto who trekked across the frozen tundra to deliver a serum to a remote village in 1925, BALTO is a heartwarming animated film that features the voices of Kevin Bacon and Bridget Fonda. Balto, who is half wolf and half dog and therefore an ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 985 members
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  • Shattered (1991)
    Starring: Tom Berenger,  Bob Hoskins,  Greta Scacchi
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A wealthy and powerful architect is left with a completely disfigured face and amnesia after his car plummets off a cliff. As he struggles to reconstruct his life, he experiences strange flashbacks of nightmarish and erotic memories that don't match the story he has been told.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 20 members
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  • Hook on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Dustin Hoffman,  Julia Roberts,  Bob Hoskins
    Director: Steven Spielberg
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Director Steven Spielberg brings J.M. Barrie's PETER PAN to the screen with a delightfully modernized twist. Forty-year-old Peter (Robin Williams) has grown up to be a workaholic lawyer with more affection for his cell phone than his wife and two children. When the family travels to England to ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 11,745 members
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  • Mermaids on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Cher,  Bob Hoskins,  Winona Ryder
    Director: Richard Benjamin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    MERMAIDS is the story of the turbulent relationship between a flamboyant, outrageous mom (Cher) and her two daughters (Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci) who just want a normal, stable life. Socially rebellious and provocative, the mother is reluctant to settle down, even at the request of her two ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 3,150 members
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  • The Raggedy Rawney on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Bob Hoskins,  Dexter Fletcher,  Ian Dury
    Director: Bob Hoskins
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    After deserting his army post in war-torn Europe, Tom goes on the run and meets up with a girl who disguises him as a woman. Later, he encounters a band of gypsies who think he is female but Jesse, the gypsy leaders's daughter, knows Tom's secret. The situation gets even more complex when she ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 25 members
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  • The Dunera Boys (2 discs) on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Bob Hoskins
    Director: Ben Lewin
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Tells the true story of a group of Jewish refugees who were sent to Australia by the British as they feared that they were in fact German spies.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 35 members
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  • Mona Lisa on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Bob Hoskins,  Cathy Tyson,  Robbie Coltrane
    Director: Neil Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In Neil Jordan's MONA LISA, ex-con George (Bob Hoskins), expecting to be repaid after taking a fall for his crime boss, is reduced to driving classy call girl Simone (Cathy Tyson) to her jobs at London's finer hotels. Despite their differences--he's a poorly-educated, unattractive, and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 4,016 members
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  • Pennies From Heaven (3 discs) on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Bob Hoskins,  Cheryl Campbell
    Director: Piers Haggard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Dennis Potter's popular and highly acclaimed TV drama--it won the BAFTA for Outstanding Drama when it first aired in 1978--follows the life of sheet-music salesman Arthur Parker in 1930s Britain. Bob Hoskins plays Parker, a man with a passion for the ladies, and his product, who leads a frustrated ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 855 members
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  • Othello on DVD
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Bob Hoskins
    Director: Colin Lowrey
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Shakespearean drama of jealousy and paranoia, covetousness and intrigue. This is the tragic tale of Othello the Moor and his bride Desdemona, driven to jealousy and death by the malicious plotting of those closest to them. 1978 Jonathan Miller production from the BBC which maintains a close loyalty ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 172 members
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Bob Hoskins - watch online


  • Last Orders to Watch Now (2001)
    Starring: Michael Caine,  Bob Hoskins,  Helen Mirren
    Director: Fred Schepisi
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 100 minutes
    Four old friends drift towards their favourite watering hole - The Coach and Horses, but this time they seem a little reluctant. Ray , Vic and Lenny have gathered to fulfil the last order of their lifelong friend Jack. The mood is quieter than usual as they raise a glass to Jack for the last time ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 17 members
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Bob Hoskins facts

5 most recent films

Street, The - Series 3 - Complete - 4.0 stars
A Christmas Carol - 3.5 stars
Ruby Blue - 3.0 stars
Doomsday - 3.0 stars
The Last Word Monologues - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Long Good Friday, The - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
A Room For Romeo Brass - 3.5 stars
The Long Good Friday - 3.5 stars
Pennies From Heaven - 3.5 stars
Enemy At The Gates - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Thick As Thieves - The Complete Series - 0.5 stars
Parting Shots - 1.5 stars
When Lions Roared - 2.0 stars
The Secret Agent - 2.0 stars
Cousin Bette - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Helen Mirren - 7 times - show films
Michael Caine - 7 times - show films
Dexter Fletcher - 7 times - show films
Bryan Marshall - 4 times - show films
Maggie Smith - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

John Mackenzie - 5 times - show films
David Blair - 3 times - show films
none - 2 times - show films
Nick Love - 2 times - show films
Shane Meadows - 2 times - show films


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