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NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
edited January 2011 in Social Entropy++
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Oscar-nominated British actor Pete Postlethwaite has died at the age of 64.

While we may all remember him as "that guy" from various films, I don't think anyone can forget his role as Kobayashi in the film The Usual Suspects.

He also starred in Age of Stupid, Muscle Men, In The Name of the Father and Brassed Off. He had supporting roles in just about every other film, but either way, he was always great.

They are saying he died peacefully following a long fight with cancer.


The guy was always one of my favorite actors. He worked hard and basically knocked every single role he did out of the park.

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  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    aw man

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKx3MUqzCcQ

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Damn it

    Damn it

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  • FrankoFranko Sometimes I really wish I had four feet so I could dance with myself to the drumbeat Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    didn't he play the Shredder in the second Ninja Turtles movie

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2011
    ... :(

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  • EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I just read about this. My response was a very, very sad expletive

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  • smegheadsmeghead Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    2011, you've got some serious fucking work to do. :x

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  • UnbrokenEvaUnbrokenEva HIGH ON THE WIRE BUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Well, fuck.

    Also, having not seen Brassed Off, I had no idea where the sample at the start of Tubthumping came from.

    Well, that's one thing that song has going for it.

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  • AriviaArivia I Like A Challenge Earth-1Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    dammit pete that is not a cool thing to do

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  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    god fucking damn it no

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  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Dang my Mum is gonna be sad...

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  • Josiah_9Josiah_9 Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    great actor, sad to see him go.

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  • PeccaviPeccavi Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    :(

    And when things became the most difficult, Draco's star shown more brightly for all of us who knew where to look.

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    At first I was like "oh boy! A Usual Suspects thread!"

    And then I was like oh noooooooooooooo

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    The picture in the OP should have been of the shattered Kobayashi mug.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Ho! Ho! Ho! Drink Coke!Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    this is the worst thing to wake up to

    Pete Postlethwaite was always one of my favorites, ever since I saw James and the Giant Peach and he handed the kid one thousand long, slimy crocodile tongues.

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  • lessmorelessmore United StatesRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    This is not a good thing to wake up to.

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Peter, if you want me to run your little camping trip, there are two conditions: first, I'm in charge, and when I'm not around, Dieter is. All you have to do is sign the checks, tell us we're doing a good job, and open your case of scotch when we have a good day. Second condition: my fee? You can keep it. All I want in return for my services is the right to hunt one of the tyrannosaurs. A male, a buck only. How and when is my business. Now if you don't like either of those conditions, you're on your own. So go ahead, set up base camp right here, or in a swamp, or in the middle of a Rex nest for all I care. But I've been on too many safaris with rich dentists to listen to any more suicidal ideas, OK?

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  • BerkBerk THE BUDGIE SMUGGLER Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I didn't expect to see a thread for him on here.

    He was a great actor and also he was who Terry Prachett envisioned Vimes looked like from the city watch.

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  • BerkBerk THE BUDGIE SMUGGLER Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    also who remembers him playing Obadiah in Sharpe?

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  • EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Berk wrote: »
    I didn't expect to see a thread for him on here.

    He was a great actor and also he was who Terry Prachett envisioned Vimes looked like from the city watch.

    Oh damn you're right, I remember that interview now

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  • DrIanMalcolmDrIanMalcolm Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Thank you Grey Ghost

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IauEY2XoMR8

    The second deleted scene

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Berk wrote: »
    also who remembers him playing Obadiah in Sharpe?

    I love Sharpe so much

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Berk wrote: »
    I didn't expect to see a thread for him on here.

    He was a great actor and also he was who Terry Prachett envisioned Vimes looked like from the city watch.

    I have not heard this, but damn I can see it now

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    DrIanMalcolm wrote: »
    Thank you Grey Ghost

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IauEY2XoMR8

    The second deleted scene

    Hahaha holy shit
    I'd never seen that

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  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Langly wrote: »
    Berk wrote: »
    also who remembers him playing Obadiah in Sharpe?

    I love Sharpe so much

    Goddammit, I forgot about that.

    Usual Suspects is definitely in my top 10 all time list, if not Top 5, so that's what I always think of first.

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2011
    I always think of Brassed Off and forget that he was in the Usual Suspects. Which is definitely a top-5 movie, yes.

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  • jippeejippee Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    NotASenator wrote: »
    Langly wrote: »
    Berk wrote: »
    also who remembers him playing Obadiah in Sharpe?

    I love Sharpe so much

    Goddammit, I forgot about that.

    Same here.

    It's quite fitting and/or eerie that (probably) his last role was that of the dying father in Inception.

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  • KusuguttaiKusuguttai __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2011
    jippee wrote: »
    NotASenator wrote: »
    Langly wrote: »
    Berk wrote: »
    also who remembers him playing Obadiah in Sharpe?

    I love Sharpe so much

    Goddammit, I forgot about that.

    Same here.

    It's quite fitting and/or eerie that (probably) his last role was that of the dying father in Inception.

    it would be if that was his last role
    but he was in the town, so

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  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Dammit, I have to watch Inception again. I didn't buy it on blu-ray to look pretty on my shelf.

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