Monday, January 03, 2011

Actor Pete Postlethwaite Dead at 64



From worstpreviews, Actor Pete Postlethwaite, who has been receiving treatment for cancer in central England, has died at the age of 64.

Postlethwaite worked with director Steven Spielberg on "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" and "Amistad." Spielberg described him as being "the best actor in the world."

The actor also played Kobayashi in "The Usual Suspects" and recently starred in Christopher Nolan's "Inception," Ben Affleck's "The Town" and Louis Leterrier's "Clash of the Titans."

4 comments:

Catfreeek said...

Aaaaw, I liked him.

Lisa said...

I loved him in In the Name of the Father but he was great in every movie he ever did, whether the film was good or not. He was the best thing in The Lost World (under-appreciated movie btw), I loved his Achab-like Roland.

JPX said...

I just caught him in The Town; loved the film and he was terrific.

Octopunk said...

Yeah, he was one of the good ones. That's too bad.

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