Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Bob Hoskins' 17 Best And Strangest Roles

The actor, who died Monday at 71, was an Oscar nominee who wasn’t afraid to play a video game plumber. Here’s a look at some of the greatest and oddest roles in his long career.


Pennies from Heaven (1978)


Pennies from Heaven (1978)


Hoskins originated the role of traveling sheet music salesman Arthur in the acclaimed TV version of Dennis Potter's dark musical, only for Steve Martin to take over in the starrier American movie remake a few years later.


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The Long Good Friday (1980)


The Long Good Friday (1980)


Hoskins' film breakthrough was as Harold Shand, a London gangster trying to go straight while slowly losing control of his criminal empire, with no less than Helen Mirren at his side as his high-class gun moll Victoria.


Embassy Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection


Pink Floyd The Wall (1982)


Pink Floyd The Wall (1982)


As the manager of morose rock star Pink (Bob Geldof) in Alan Parker's trippy film based on the Pink Floyd album, Hoskins wasn't above drugging his client in order to get him on stage.


Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Via youtube.com


Brazil (1985)


Brazil (1985)


In Terry Gilliam's surreal portrait of a totalitarian, bureaucratic nightmare state, Hoskins was firmly on the side of the man as Spoor, one of two Central Services workers making the life of protagonist Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) more difficult.


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