He could have stayed in teaching. That's what his parents wanted: it was the safe, secure route for a young man with working-class roots and a face few would describe as handsome. But Pete ...

Hosts Robert Siegel and Melissa Block remember British actor Pete Postlethwaite, who died Sunday at age 64 after a long battle with cancer. Postlethwaite became an international film star in 1993, ...

The stage actor could embody both the extremes of human decency and powerful violence; he broke out in Jim Sheridan’s In the Name of the Father in 1994, for which he nabbed an Oscar nomination. Steven ...

When British actor Pete Postlethwaite was studying at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in the 1970s, the head of the school predicted he would fare well as an actor but couldn’t resist telling him ...

Unfortunately, we have sad news to kick-off our return to work in 2011 as Reuters has learned that Oscar nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite has passed away at 64 years old after a long fight with ...

There was no mistaking Pete Postlethwaite for anyone else. Postlethwaite, who died Sunday at age 64, was the kind of character actor who immediately impressed audiences with his distinctive features.

As an actor, Postlethwaite possessed such an edgy, hungry intelligence, expressed in the brusque snap and cut of his rhythms (it was a voice that didn’t have the time, or patience, for anyone else’s ...

When British actor Pete Postlethwaite was studying at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in the 1970s, its head predicted he’d fare well as an actor but couldn’t resist telling him that he had a face ...

Pete Postlethwaite, a classically trained British actor who had a prolific career on-screen, including an Oscar-nominated supporting role in the 1993 film “In the Name of the Father,” died Jan. 2 at a ...

Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite, a craggy-faced British character actor described by director Steven Spielberg as “the best actor in the world,” has died at age 64 after a long battle with ...