British actor Bob Hoskins, who came to fame as the star of the television series Pennies from Heaven in the late 1970s, has died at the age of 71.
Hoskins, star of films including Who Framed Roger Rabbit and The Long Good Friday, died in hospital on Tuesday night after a bout of pneumonia.
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The short, stocky Londoner rose to fame in British gangster movies in the 1980s and went on to have a long career as a Hollywood character actor.
Hoskins, who was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe for playing a petty criminal in Mona Lisa in 1986, retired in 2012 after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
Hoskins' last acting role was one of the seven dwarves in the film Snow White and the Huntsman, starring Twilight actress Kristen Stewart.
RIP, Bob Hoskins. This clip from Roger Rabbit w/out animation really shows how great his acting was. http://t.co/hBELloMjA1
— Blank on Blank (@blankonblank) April 30, 2014
Writing about the lessons he taught her, his daughter Rosa said “my darling Dad has died. I loved him to the ends of the earth and he loved me back just the same”, the Mirror reports.
