Why The Hell Dennis Hopper Did That Mario Movie [Hollywood]
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Kotaku - Found Nov. 7, 2008 It's much worse than that. Actor Bob Hoskins, who played Mario, has called the movie "the worst" thing he did. |
Harry Potter: Weigh in on 'Half-Blood Prince' trailer
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Entertainment Weekly Online - Found 18 hours ago Slughorn (played by Jim Broadbent, a pretty great piece of casting even if I personally was pulling for Bob Hoskins in the role), the new... Harry Potter's Not Opening, and They're Not Over It - E! Online The Harry Potter Shuffle: How 'Half-Blood Prince' Delay Affected ... - Hartford Courant New ´Harry Potter´ trailer depicts romance, hidden secrets - Planet Bollywood Harry Potter VI - Sky News Explore All |
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Laura Linney to host "Masterpiece Classic"
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Orlando Sentinel - Found Nov. 18, 2008 March 15, 22: Replay of 'David Copperfield' with Daniel Radcliffe of 'Harry Potter,' Bob Hoskins and Ian McKellen starring in the miniseries. |
Anakin Drives a Hooker
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FilmForce - Found Nov. 17, 2008 Bob Hoskins. ScreenDailyreports that Christensen is in talks to star in an Americanized remake of the 1986 British film Mona Lisa. Bob Hoskins... |
Paris, je t'aime [Blu-ray]
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MovieWeb - Found Nov. 16, 2008 Richard LaGravanese's 'Pigalle' finds a long-married man (Bob Hoskins) turning to a prostitute for advice on pleasing his wife (Fanny Ardant). |
Television movies for the week of Nov. 16 (Today)
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Found Nov. 16, 2008 (R) (2:00) MAX: Sat. 12:50 A.M. (CC) ? The Astronaut Farmer '07. Billy Bob Thornton. |
Will Young, Newcastle City Hall
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What's On North East - Found Nov. 14, 2008 Will also won plaudits for his 2005 film debut with Bob Hoskins and Judi Dench in Mrs Henderson Presents and last year starred in a critically... |
Local scenes: Movie news and notes: Offbeat festival films add spice ...
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The Detroit Free Press - Found Nov. 13, 2008 Other highlights include Bob Hoskins in 'Ruby Blue' (5 p.m. Friday), free screenings for kids at noon Saturday and the annual Saturday... |
Offbeat festival films add spice to weekend
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The Detroit Free Press - Found Nov. 13, 2008 Other highlights include Bob Hoskins in 'Ruby Blue' (5 p.m. Friday), free screenings for kids at noon Saturday and the annual Saturday... |
Weekly Ketchup: Jack Black to star in Gulliver's Travels
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Rotten Tomatoes - Found Nov. 9, 2008 In the original, Bob Hoskins played an ex-con taxi driver who forms a bond with a prostitute passenger. |
Bob Hoskins Biography
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Bob Hoskins
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Robert William "Bob" Hoskins, Jr. (born 26 October 1942) is an English actor, known for playing Cockney rough diamonds and gangsters, and for his performances in family films such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Hook (1991).
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Early life
Hoskins was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, the son of Elsie Lillian (née Hopkins), a cook and nursery-school teacher, and Robert William Hoskins, Sr., a bookkeeper and lorry driver.12 One of Hoskins' grandmothers was a Romani.3 In 1967, while aged 25, he spent a short period in kibbutz Zikim in Israel.
Career
According to the production notes on the Special Edition of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, his acting career started when he was sitting in a pub enjoying a beer when someone came up to him and told him to go upstairs to audition for a play. So he did and actually got the role. Before that day a career in acting was the last thing he ever thought he'd have.
After beginning his acting career on the London stage in the late 1960s, Hoskins first gained wide attention in the original BBC television serial version of Dennis Potter's Pennies from Heaven as sheet music salesman Arthur Parker and On the Move (both 1978), an educational series intended to tackle adult illiteracy. Later, he played Iago in Jonathan Miller's BBC Television Shakespeare production of Othello.
Hoskins' performances in British films such as The Long Good Friday (1980) and Mona Lisa (1986) won him the wider approval of the critics and, in the case of the latter, a Cannes Award, Best Actor Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. He also delivered comic turns in Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985) and Super Mario Bros. (1993). Hoskins was not initially aware that Super Mario Bros. was based on the popular video game of the same name. His son had asked him what film he was working on, and recognizing it, showed Hoskins the video game on the Nintendo video game console. In a 2007 interview, he revealed that he was not happy with the film or his experiences making it, referring to it as the "worst thing I ever did".2 During the late 1980s and early 1990s he appeared in advertising for the recently privatised companies of British Gas and British Telecom (now BT Group).
Hoskins made a cameo appearance as a rock band's manager in the Pink Floyd film The Wall, with a two-word expletive spoken part. He has also directed films. He was slated to be a last-minute replacement in the film The Untouchables if star Robert De Niro had not decided to play Al Capone. When De Niro took the part, director Brian De Palma mailed Hoskins a cheque for US$ 200,000 with a Thank You note, which prompted Hoskins to call up De Palma and ask him if there were any more movies he didn't want him to be in.citation needed
Hoskins' first appearance to mainstream American audiences was in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, for which he received a second Golden Globe nomination. Some of Hoskins' other notable appearances include playing opposite Cher in Mermaids (1990), boatswain Smee to Captain Hook in Hook (1991), and Uncle Bart, the violent "owner" of Jet Li in Unleashed. He has also performed in several television productions for the BBC, including Dennis Potter's Pennies From Heaven, Flickers, David Copperfield, and Wind in the Willows. He played Nikita Khrushchev in the movie Enemy at the Gates (2001). Khrushchev was shown in his political commissar days during the Battle of Stalingrad. He received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Mrs Henderson Presents.
Hoskins has done some of the voice-overs on advertisements for Tesco and more recently Argos. He recently starred in the music video for Jamie T's Sheila, playing the eponymous girl's father and lip-syncing to the music.
Personal life
Hoskins has two children with his current wife, and two children from a previous marriage.
Filmography
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References
- ^ Bob Hoskins Biography (1942-)
- ^ a b 'The Method? Living it out? Cobblers!' | Interviews | guardian.co.uk Film
- ^ Moline, Karen (1988). Bob Hoskins: An Unlikely Hero. Michigan: Sidgwick & Jackson, 201. ISBN0283995084.
External links
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