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Respected British character actor Pete Postlethwaite has died at the age of 64, it was announced today; he was suffering from cancer. He had graduated from theatre to supporting roles on television to cinema throughout the seventies and eighties, becoming a distinctive face in such movies as A Private Function, The Dressmaker and Distant Voices Still Lives, when stardom beckoned in the nineties.
In films like Split Second, Alien 3, Last of the Mohicans, In the Name of the Father (which offered him an Oscar nomination), The Usual Suspects, Romeo + Juliet, Brassed Off and The Lost World (he was a favourite of Steven Spielberg), he found himself much in demand. The following decade saw him in lower profile works, but no less busy, turning up in Dark Water, Aeon Flux and Solomon Kane until he ended his career in blockbusters like Clash of the Titans and Inception. Always memorable, he will be missed. |
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