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Bob Hoskins

1942 - 2014

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Robert William "Bob" Hoskins (26 October 1942 – 29 April 2014) was an English actor. His work included lead roles in Pennies from Heaven (1978), The Long Good Friday (1980), Mona Lisa (1986), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Mermaids (1990), and Super Mario Bros. (1993), and supporting performances in Brazil (1985), Hook (1991), Nixon (1995), Enemy at the Gates (2001), Mrs Henderson Presents (2005), A Christmas Carol (2009), Made in Dagenham (2010), and Snow White and the Huntsman (2012). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bob Hoskins has received more than 4,203,037 page views. His biography is available in 81 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 79 in 2019). Bob Hoskins is the 368th most popular actor (down from 356th in 2019), the 534th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 537th in 2019) and the 55th most popular British Actor.

Bob Hoskins is most famous for his role as the bumbling detective, Eddie Valiant, in the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 72.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 81

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Bob Hoskins ranks 368 out of 10,030. Before him are Sammo Hung, Charlize Theron, Ginger Rogers, Oona O'Neill, Juliette Gréco, and Asta Nielsen. After him are Jeff Goldblum, Chow Yun-fat, Monica Vitti, Carole Lombard, Danny Glover, and Charles Laughton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Bob Hoskins ranks 44. Before him are Wen Jiabao, John Irving, Javier Solana, Jacques Rogge, Frank Williams, and Michel Mayor. After him are Arto Paasilinna, Giancarlo Giannini, Tobin Bell, Vicente Fox, Tony Buzan, and Michael Crichton. Among people deceased in 2014, Bob Hoskins ranks 31. Before him are Jack Brabham, Queen Fabiola of Belgium, Gary Becker, Martin Lewis Perl, H. R. Giger, and Virna Lisi. After him are Adolfo Suárez, Chespirito, Masaru Emoto, Richard Møller Nielsen, Maya Angelou, and Lorin Maazel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Bob Hoskins ranks 534 out of 6,924. Before him are James Clark Ross (1800), Nigel Mansell (1953), Gordon Banks (1937), James III of Scotland (1451), Edmund Ironside (993), and A. S. Neill (1883). After him are Alice Liddell (1852), Tony Scott (1944), Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844), John Bunyan (1628), Charles Laughton (1899), and Richard Branson (1950).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Bob Hoskins ranks 55. Before him are Sam Neill (1947), Emma Thompson (1959), Wentworth Miller (1972), John Cleese (1939), Daniel Craig (1968), and Kate Winslet (1975). After him are Charles Laughton (1899), Charles Dance (1946), Jonathan Pryce (1947), Helena Bonham Carter (1966), Catherine Zeta-Jones (1969), and Jean Simmons (1929).

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