Bob Hoskins

Robert William "Bob" Hoskins was an English actor and film director, known for playing Cockney rough diamonds, psychopaths, and gangsters in films. He was best known for his role as George in the 1986 British neo-noir mystery film (in which he was nominated for an ). His other well-known roles included voicing Boris the Russian snow goose in the 1995 animated film , Winston the bulldog in , and for portraying Louis "Lou" Landsky in , Nikita Khurshchev in the war film , and Captain Hook's first mate Mr. Smee in Steven Spielberg's .
For Disney, he portrayed Eddie Valiant in the 1988 Touchstone Pictures film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, J. Edgar Hoover in Nixon, Johnny Scanlan in Passed Away, Mario in 1993 Hollywood Pictures film Super Mario Bros., and Eddie Mannix in the 2006 Miramax film . He also voiced Fezziwig and Old Joe in the 2009 animated film A Christmas Carol, where he once again collaborated with director Robert Zemeckis.
Hoskins was born in Bury St. Edmunds, the son of Elsie (née Hopkins), a cook and nursery school teacher, and Robert Hoskins, a bookkeeper and lorry driver. One of his grandmothers was Romani. From two weeks old, he was brought up in the Finsbury Park area of London. He attended Stroud Green Secondary School, where he was written off as "stupid" on account of his dyslexia. He left school at age 15 with a single O-Level and worked as a porter, lorry driver, plumber, and window cleaner. He started but did not complete a three-year accountancy course. He spent six months on a kibbutz in Israel and two years tending to the camels of a Bedouin tribe in Syria.
Hoskins officially retired from show business in 2012 due to an ongoing battle with Parkinson's disease. He died of pneumonia in 2014 at the age of 71 and was survived by his wife and four children.
==Roles==
Eddievalientinfobox.png|Eddie Valiant(Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
Fezziwigdisney.jpg|Fezziwig(A Christmas Carol)
Oldjoedisney.jpg|Old Joe(A Christmas Carol)
==Gallery==
Bob Hoskins Christmas Carol premiere.jpg|Bob Hoskins at the A Christmas Carol premiere in November 2009.
Bob, Roger and Robert together.jpg|Bob Hoskins as Eddie Valiant with Roger Rabbit and Robert Zemeckis at the shooting of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
WFRR - Roger, Eddie, Jessica publicity photo.jpg|Bob Hoskins as Eddie with Roger and Jessica in a publicity photo.
Roger,Jessica and Eddie.jpg
==Trivia==
*In 1989, he was nominated for the for his role in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but lost to Tom Hanks who won for .Bob Hoskins - Golden Globes
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