The great grizzled British character actor Pete Postlethwaite has died, too young to go at the age 64.
Cinema audiences last caught a whiff of his menace in “The Town,” playing The Florist, the aged mobster who set up robberies and sent Ben Affleck, Jeremy Renner and company off to take the risks while he ran his underworld from the cozy confines of a florist shop. He was in “Clash of the Titans,” and of course, “Inception,” and earlier, brilliantly,”The Usual Suspects,” “Amistad,” “Hamlet,” a very long list of pretty darned good credits.
There he was in “The Last of the Mohicans,” which I was watching on BluRay just last weekend. He classed up and working classed up many a film, mainly from the UK, from “In the Name of the Father” to “Brassed Off,” a film whose release afforded me the opportunity to catch up with him as he passed through Atlanta, promoting it.
