Pete Postlethwaite - IMDb
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Pete Postlethwaite, an Actor With Broad Range, Dies at 64
Pete Postlethwaite, a lanky, craggy-faced character actor whose range stretched from sweet sentimentality to acid menace and who was nominated for an Academy Award in 1994 for his role as the father of a man unjustly accused of terrorism in “In the Name of the Father,” died on Sunday in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. He was 64 and lived on a farm near Bishop’s Castle, Shropshire.
The cause was cancer, said Andrew Richardson, a friend.
With a broad nose, prominent ears, high cheekbones and hollow cheeks, Mr. Postlethwaite (pronounced POSS-ul-thwayt) was distinctive looking and rawboned, if not exactly classically handsome. His face was an especially suitable one for the rough-hewn working-class men he often (though far from always) played.
He was widely known in England as a stage and television actor before beginning a busy film career in the 1980s — his first significant role was in “A Private Function,” with Michael Palin and Maggie Smith, in 1984 — and in the 1990s he became familiar to American audiences in, among other films, “Alien 3,” “Waterland,” “The Last of the Mohicans” and “The Usual Suspects.”
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My first exposure to Pete's work was "In The Name Of The Father".
Along with Day-Lewis' work in that film, Pete showed me what fine acting was all about.
From that point on, I knew if Pete Postlethwaite was in the film, it had a chance of being good.
You died too soon, good sir.