LONDON: British actor Bob Hoskins, the gruff star of films including Who Framed Roger Rabbit and The Long Good Friday, has died at the age of 71 following a bout of pneumonia, his family said Wednesday (Thursday in Manila).

The short, stocky Londoner, who rose to fame in British gangster movies in the 1980s and went on to have a long career as a Hollywood character actor, died in hospital on Tuesday night.

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