Posted on 01/03/2011 3:03:26 PM PST by Germanicus Cretorian
A longtime friend of actor Pete Postlethwaite has told the British press that the 64-year-old actor has died in a hospital in Shropshire, central England, while receiving treatment for cancer.
Postlethwaite was a greatly respected actor in the industry, having received an Oscar nomination for his supporting role in Jim Sheridan's In the Name of the Father. He'll probably best be remembered for his role as Kobayashi in Bryan Singer's The Usual Suspects, but he also appeared in Steven Spielberg's The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, David Fincher's Alien 3, The Last of the Mohicans and dozens of other films.
Last year alone, Postlethwaite appeared in three of Warner Bros.' biggest films, the remake of Clash of the Titans (playing Sam Worthington's adopted father), Christopher Nolan's Inception (playing Cillian Murphy's dying father), and in Ben Affleck's The Town as "The Florist."
He's survived by his wife Jackie and their two children
:-(
The life expectency for a lot of folks in the Uk is pretty low. Many 1970s UK rockers are often dead while Alice Cooper starts a new tour.
I’ve seen very few - if any - of the movies mentioned in the article, yet he looks so familiar. He must play in a lot of BBC movies, of which I watch a lot.
Really liked Dragonheart with Dennis Quaid and Sean Connery's voice. Rest in peace Mr. Postlethwaite
I wonder if Kaiser Sose will show up at the funeral ...
Big deal, he was just an actor.
I remember him as the evil white hunter in a Jurassic park movie.
Gee, even "John Does" get an obit
shame, i just saw him in some movie on the net with the aflack guy... RIP
absolutely ... a great performance ...
“Clever Girl...”
He was great in “The Town” (not a bad movie if you can stomach Ben Affleck).
Oops, maybe that was Jurassic Park II.
Unfortunately the “search” function has become a lost art.
Short and homely, Peter Postlethwaite nevertheless became a respected and successful stage and screen actor through skill and hard work. Through talent in small roles, he often overshadowed more prominent colleagues. I cannot recall any instance in which his work as an actor was wanting.
"This band behind me'll tell you that that trophy means more to me than owt else in the whole world. But they'd be wrong! Truth is, I THOUGHT it mattered. I thought that MUSIC mattered. But does it bollocks? Not compared to how people matter. Us winning this trophy won't mean bugger-all to most people. But us refusing it - like what we're going to do now - well, then it becomes news, doesn't it?"
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