Bob hoskins

“Bob died peacefully last night in the hospital surrounded by his family after pneumonia. We ask for respect and privacy at this time and we appreciate your messages of love and support,” explains the note signed by his wife Linda and their children Alex, Sarah, Rosa and Jack.

He prepared very thoroughly for his roles, and critics hailed him as one of the best British actors of all time. Bob Hoskins played the most diverse characters on the screen.

Born on October 26, 1942, in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk (in the south-east of Great Britain), Robert William Hoskins Jr. belonged to a family that just at that moment had been forced to leave London due to aviation bombing. Nazi.

He took his first professional steps in the London theater at the end of the 1960s. He began to attract attention in British cinema, with The Long Good Friday and especially Mona Lisa , with which he won the Best Actor award at Cannes, the Golden Globe, BAFTA and an Oscar nomination. The film marked his passport to Hollywood, where he rocked the role of a priest advising the terrorist played by Mickey Rourke in Requiem for Those Who Will Die .

His American accent was so worked up that critics there assumed he was their compatriot, when they saw him in titles like Who Framed Roger Rabbit? , Mermaids or Hook: Captain Hook . In his filmography, El viaje de Felicia stands out especially , and he also did a good job as a real character, Nikita Kruschchev, in the film Enemy at the gates .

His ability to interpret was almost always surprising, as when he played the protagonist of The Holy Father John XXIII , but on occasion he gave in to the temptation of collecting a huge check for participating in blockbusters of dubious interest, especially when he played Super Mario on the screen. Bros , bizarre adaptation of the adventures of the video game character.

In 2002 he was awarded the Donostia Award at the 50th edition of the San Sebastián International Film Festival.