In the past, such beetle-browed heavyweights as Broderick Crawford, Ernest Borgnine, and Bob Hoskins have played Hoover.

NEWYORKER: The Man in Charge

Also with Maggie Smith, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Dante Basco, Caroline Goodall, Charlie Korsmo, and Amber Scott.

NEWYORKER: Hook

They include comedian Hugh Laurie, and actors Bob Hoskins and Maureen Lipman.

BBC: ET phones home again

Bonham Carter, 44, star of the Harry Potter films, will get the Richard Harris Award, previously won by actors including John Hurt and Bob Hoskins.

BBC: Helena Bonham Carter and Liam Neeson to be honoured

With an apparently endless list of British actors, including Jim Broadbent, Bob Hoskins, Eileen Atkins, Geraldine McEwan, and (struggling with the slippery role of George Osborne) Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

NEWYORKER: Vanity Fair

Laura Henderson (Judi Dench), a fiercely rude and reactionary widow, took over a decrepit London theatre, the Windmill, and hired a Jewish manager-impresario, Vivian Van Damm (Bob Hoskins), to run it.

NEWYORKER: Mrs. Henderson Presents