The world lost a true badass today and is just that much less deviant :(
Now, which ridiculously awesome movie shall I watch tonight in his honor?
*still haven't seen the Town yet, need to.
Sad news indeed; he's long been one of my favorite actors. R.I.P.
:'(
RIP Pete
my favorite film that he stared in was Brassed Off
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He turned in an excellent performance in The Town...excellent character actor and a sad loss
I liked his performance in Usual Suspects as Mr Kobayashi....but looking over his career, I forgot he was in Split Second....man that was a great film!!!
RIP Pete. :'(
He was one of my favourites.
I'll have to watch In the Name of the Father again.
Quote from: geoffduc on January 03, 2011, 12:11:50 PM
RIP Pete
my favorite film that he stared in was Brassed Off
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+1. Brassed Off was a good one too. The brass band music gave me shivers.
Some remarkable performances.... the highlight for mine.... In The Name of the Father.
:'( RIP
:(
Superb Actor, Little known Role I always loved him in was the Father/Priest in Dragon Heart.
RIP Sir. :'(
Dragonheart Trailer *good quality* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSYThEfy9PU#normal)
RIP :(
His most memorable role, to me, was in The Omen...
After checking IMDB?
Dragon Heart (the scribe was a great character)
The Usual Suspects (Srsly, great movie)
brassed off meant a great deal to me. I remember the pit closures in the old country, and the distress it caused. That was a really good prortrayal in that movie of how to kill a town and demoralize its inhabitants,. Look at Newcastle, leeds, Sunderland, Liverpool, Sheffield Birmingham..... these were the great manufacturing centers of Britian. Coal, Steel and Iron, Shipbuilding. All gone now. In 100 years China will be a big wasteland just like the industrial heartlands of Britian and America.
RIP Sir, Congratulations on a job well done. [thumbsup]
:-\
RIP sire. A fantastic actor that brightened any film he was in. Though most famous for his character parts, among his lead roles like Brassed Off (brilliant) was a favorite of mine, Among Giants.
Pete Postlethwaite's name anywhere on a movie usually means it's worth watching, even if his role is small.
I've just been watching on BBC tv a program about Pete and how a young film producer had an idea for a short film about an old guy who has flash backs to his childhood and he thought that Pete would be prefect for the role but couldn't afford him, well a chance meeting in a manchester pub lead to Pete doing the film for free. The name of the film is "Waving at Trains" so if you can try and watch it because I certainly will.
As has been said Brassed Off was really true to life at that time over her in the UK and it was to my mind the start of what I call the police state and the decline of the working class.
Yet again R.I.P. Pete