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Apr 30, 2014 · 30 April 2014. PA. Stockily built and adept at playing both light and heavy roles, Bob Hoskins became an international star of the cinema after a long career in the theatre. Robert William...
Apr 30, 2014 · Catherine Shoard. Wed 30 Apr 2014 11.01 EDT. The actor Bob Hoskins has died aged 71. His agent said that he died on Tuesday, surrounded by his family, suffering from pneumonia. He retired in...
Apr 30, 2014 · Wed 30 Apr 2014 10.09 EDT. B ob Hoskins was a north London gob-shite made good, the onetime road digger who made himself a star. He was the psycho-gangster in The Long Good Friday, the doleful...
Apr 30, 2014 · Born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, and raised in north London, he was the only child of Robert, a bookkeeper, and Elsie, a teacher and school cook. Bob left school at the age of 15 and took...
Robert William Hoskins (26 October 1942 – 29 April 2014) was an English actor and film director. Known for his intense but sensitive portrayals of "tough guy" characters, he began his career on stage before making his screen breakthrough playing Arthur Parker on the 1978 BBC Television serial Pennies from Heaven.
Apr 30, 2014 · Robert William Hoskins was born on Oct. 26, 1942, in the historic Suffolk town of Bury St. Edmunds, to which his mother, Elsie Lillian, had been evacuated during heavy bombing in World War II....
May 2, 2014 · He was 71 years old. Hoskins, born in London and raised as part of the working class, specialized in playing tough guys with soft underbellies, almost always with his natural Cockney accent. On...
