Bob Hoskins once told an interviewer that his mother was very pleased when he became an actor, because the consensus in his old neighborhood was that “I’d end up on the gallows.” He beat the odds on that one, starring in one of the biggest movie hits of the ’80s (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?), one of the most critically acclaimed and innovative British TV shows of the ’70s (Dennis Potter’s Pennies From Heaven), and earning an Academy Award nomination, a Golden Globe, several awards from BAFTA, and accolades from the Cannes Film Festival and every film critics’ group under the sun for his performance in the 1986 Mona Lisa. That film, along with the 1981 The Long Good Friday, made Hoskins the face of the modern British crime movie, and he would go on to star in many more. (Most recently, he won an International Emmy Award for his work in the British TV series The Street.)