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The gentleman had produced his passport and pièces d’identité, showing him to be a retired manufacturer of the name Postlethwaite, living at Kew.
The Unpleasantness At The Belladonna Club Sayers, Dorothy L.Lord Peter 05 1928
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(After the film, Bassett told a story about how they got a pig cadaver and had at it with various weapons to try and get a feel for what real weapon brutality would be like.) Pete Postlethwaite, Max Von Sydow, and other notables fill out the cast.
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Another familiar element in The Town is that of the criminal reluctantly embarking on one last robbery before starting on a new life, and there's a formidable performance by Pete Postlethwaite as the superficially charming Irish florist Fergus Colm, a brutal manipulator, drug dealer and heist planner who forces Doug into a final raid.
The Town Philip French 2010
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Postlethwaite kept from being trampled by dropping his camera and diving headfirst into a ditch.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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Amid this …. clash, an orphaned baby is found by a kindly fisherman (Pete Postlethwaite) and raised as his own child.
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This too features a fantastic cast, with such pros as Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Tim Roth, Dougray Scott, Pete Postlethwaite, and Camryn Manheim grounding this spook story in a reality that is as frightening as any ghost.
Scott Mendelson: Just in Time for Halloween: 10 of the Scariest Horror Films of the Last 20 Years. Scott Mendelson 2010
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This too features a fantastic cast, with such pros as Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Tim Roth, Dougray Scott, Pete Postlethwaite, and Camryn Manheim grounding this spook story in a reality that is as frightening as any ghost.
Scott Mendelson: Just in Time for Halloween: 10 of the Scariest Horror Films of the Last 20 Years. Scott Mendelson 2010
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Postlethwaite died peacefully Sunday in a hospital in Shropshire, England, where he had been receiving treatment for cancer, according to longtime friend Andrew Richardson.
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This too features a fantastic cast, with such pros as Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Tim Roth, Dougray Scott, Pete Postlethwaite, and Camryn Manheim grounding this spook story in a reality that is as frightening as any ghost.
Scott Mendelson: Just in Time for Halloween: 10 of the Scariest Horror Films of the Last 20 Years. Scott Mendelson 2010
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Postlethwaite, who received an OBE in 2004, was also well known for his role as Sergeant Obadiah in the British television series Sharpe.
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