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Films starring Pete Postlethwaite
With features seemingly hewn out of stone actor Pete Postlethwaite was born to be a character actor. But out of this distinctive facial canvas came a potent acting talent that could bend those features to playing almost any role with an understated dignity.
Such was this emotive quality to his craft that his turn as the band leader in ... show more >
With features seemingly hewn out of stone actor Pete Postlethwaite was born to be a character actor. But out of this distinctive facial canvas came a potent acting talent that could bend those features to playing almost any role with an understated dignity.
Such was this emotive quality to his craft that his turn as the band leader in a Northern mining town facing pit closure in Brassed Off (1996) was credited by former UK Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott as actively influencing government policy at the time.
Born in Warrington in Cheshire, Postlethwaite first trained to be a teacher before training at the Bristol Old Vic theatre school and working his apprenticeship at the Liverpool Everyman Theatre during its 1970s heyday. His contemporaries at the Everyman included future talents like Bill Nighy, Jonathan Pryce, Julie Walters and Antony Sher.
Postlethwaite became best known on screen for two deeply humane performances in the late 1980s and early 1990s. First as the abusive father who somehow loved his children in Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) and later as the wrongly imprisoned IRA suspect Patrick "Guiseppe" Conlon in In the Name of the Father (1993).
Firmly placing his name on the lists of casting agents on both sides of the Atlantic he was then just as likely to turn up in a Hollywood blockbuster as he was in a low budget British film or on television. Memorable big budget outings included The Usual Suspects (1995) and Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World (1997). Back home though he could turn up on BBC period dramas like Martin Chuzzlewit (1994) or the environmental documentary The Age of Stupid (2009). < show less
2009,
Franny Armstrong, DVD
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Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking back at ‘...
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1993,
Jim Sheridan, DVD
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A well played-out drama based on the Guildford pub bombings in which Gerry Conlon...
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1988,
Terence Davies, DVD
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The second film in Terence Davies' autobiographical series (Trilogy, The Long Day...
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2005,
Fernando Meirelles, DVD
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Based on John Le Carre's bestselling novel, The Constant Gardener is an exciting mix of romance a...
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1999,
Alan Bell, DVD
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A funny and tender account of a mother's decline. Thora Hird plays Annie Longden, an eccentric OA...
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1999,
John Stephenson, DVD
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George Orwell's classic political allegory is brought to the screen with the help of state-of...
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1993,
Chris Newby, DVD
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A visually arresting story of religious conflict set in medieval England, where a peasant girl is...
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1996,
Baz Luhrmann, DVD
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Back in 1996, several critics reckoned this was really Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Jul...
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1984,
Malcolm Mowbray, DVD
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Classic Alan Bennett comedy starring a host of familiar faces. It's 1947 and Great Britain is in ...
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2000,
Simon Curtis, Sallie Aprahamian, DVD
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Bank robber Len Green (Pete Postlethwaite) has just finished a four-and-a-half year stretch in pr...
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1993,
Jim Sheridan, DVD
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A well played-out drama based on the Guildford pub bombings in which Gerry Conlon...
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1997,
Philippe Rousselot, DVD
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England, 1699. The flamboyant Meneer Chrome (MacGregor) is employed by wealthy landowner Thomas S...
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1996,
Mark Herman, DVD
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Determined to rise above the misery of industrial decline and smashed dreams, the Grimley Collier...
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2007,
Richard Attenborough, DVD
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A young man searches for the owner of a ring that belonged to a US WWII bomber pilot who crashed ...
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2009,
Franny Armstrong, DVD
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Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking back at ‘...
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2011,
Nick Hamm, DVD
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Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais adapt journalist Neil McCormick's autobiography for the big scree...
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2002,
Edoardo Ponti, DVD
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Starring Gerard Depardieu and Sophia Loren, Between Strangers (directed by Loren's son) focuses o...
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2008,
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Brand new gritty BBC crime drama starring Ben Wishaw and Pete Postlewaite.
Ben Coulter is an a...
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1996,
Baz Luhrmann, Blu-ray
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Back in 1996, several critics reckoned this was really Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Jul...
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2005,
Fernando Meirelles, Blu-ray
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Based on John Le Carre's bestselling novel, The Constant Gardener is an exciting ...
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2005,
Karyn Kusama, Blu-ray
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Big-budget, live-action adaptation of the cult MTV animated series, starring Charlize Theron as t...
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2005,
Karyn Kusama, DVD
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Big-budget, live-action adaptation of the cult MTV animated series, starring Charlize Theron as t...
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2009,
Various (TV), DVD
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The complete first and second series of Criminal Justice, featuring two cases, tw...
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