Yeah terrible news, I grew up with Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Hook...

You mean Unleashed (Danny the Dog)? I actually enjoyed it quite a bit, why do think it was awful?

So very true.which of current crop will be remembered as wonderful actors in the years to come? can't think of any right now....

RIP Bob thanks for the memories

I watched Hook and Roger Rabbit so many hundreds of times as a kid that he was pretty much my babysitter.
I think my favorite of his performances was Nikita Khrushchev in Enemy at the Gates. Oh yeah! I totally forgot about that. That was a great cameo.

He was an awesome Eddie Valliant - managed to be as memorable, or more, as the gimmick f/x rabbit himself, and made it really an Eddie Valliant story more than a Roger Rabbit one. But he was a weird choice for the prof Challenger.

Still, he was very enjoyable in each one of his appearances. And, well... This is unhappy news.

Bob Hoskins gruff, wise-cracking, hard-drinking Eddie Valiant was one of my formative childhood icons of masculinity . I loved Roger Rabbit and basically committed that movie's script to memory as a kid. His most creepy, chillingly effective role had to be the fastidious, lonely chef preying on young, prospect-less women in Atom Egoyan's Felicity's Journey.

He was great in supporting roles as well. I'm thinking in particular J. Edgar Hoover in Nixon, Eddie Mannix (Hoskins had a knack for roles named Eddie) in Hollywoodland and that loopy plumber Spoor in Terry Gilliam's Brazil. Even in a small, throwaway role in mediocre films like Beyond the Sea and Vanity Fair he was the best thing about it.

RIP, 'ol Bob. They don't make heavies the way they used to.

Reminds me when Raul Julia died and all they seemed to talk of was his Street Fighter movie work. What a shame. Anyways sad to see another legend go. Believe it or not, ive never seen the Super Mario Bros Movie, I just remember it looking very bad on cover art and previews I stayed away, lol.

Rest In Peace, Bob Hoskins... (-_-)