Today see's the loss of a truly inspiring and beyond talented actor...Pete Postlthwaite.
among his credits as a performer are some of the most exciting characters the Bard ever wrote about ....
Pete played:
Cornwall, King Lear, Royal Shakespeare Company,Grumio, The Taming of the Shrew, Royal Shakespeare Company, Duke of Exeter, Henry V, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Lord Hastings, Richard III, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Banquo and Macduff in Macbeth, and as Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, both Royal Shakespeare Company, Ulysses in a production of Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida.", Baz Lurhmann's modern take on "William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet", King Lear and Prospero in The Tempest at the Royal Exchange Manchester.....to name but a few!
however my favourite memory of his work is Brassed Off (Northern Angst?...Maybe), here is a video of that famous 'Danny' speech which he does so very well!
LEGEND!
a very sad way to start 2011...
Peace Out
xx
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