Pete Postlethwaite Dies

[filkertom]

Sadness. Character actor Pete Postlethwaite has passed away at the age of 64. I hadn't even heard he was ill....

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Noooo!

[stone-bitch.livejournal.com]

O, I'm so sad to hear this. We're tremendous fans in this household. Damn, how very tragic. :(

[orangemike.livejournal.com]

Best known at our house as the guy Terry Pratchett said is the model (somatically) for a certain Watch Commander.

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

I was trying to remember where I'd seen him before, and that'd be lots of places. He worked with Sean Bean in Sharpe's Rifles and the other Sharpes ITV series, for instance--very convincing about playing a narsty piece a' bidness, if I do say so myself...

[susan-the-rogue.livejournal.com]

I absolutely adored him as Brother Gilbert in "Dragonheart"....massive amounts of sympathy for his family and friends. :(

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

Who will be Keyser Soze now?

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

I was too busy with the barber shop quartet to ask

More sadness

[alverant.livejournal.com]

Gerry Rafferty has passed on. He wrote "Stuck in the middle with you".

http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/05/obit.gerry.rafferty/index.html?hpt=T2

[violinsontv.livejournal.com]

Damn, damn, damn.

So much good stuff. I have a special soft spot for him as the bandleader in "Brassed Off," though.

[debber5.livejournal.com]

I had to look up his credits before remembering who he was. I remember a few of his roles. So sad to hear.