My mother and I were watching the "Twilight Zone" marathon on Syfy this weekend, and she wondered how many actors from this show were still alive. The first person who sprang to my mind was Anne Francis, who appeared in the episode "The After Hours," one of my mom's favorites.
The year only just started, and cancer has already claimed two fine people.
knives wrote:I guess I should put those plans to sleep tonight away. Just reading that name here has sent me through a number of emotions. He just had one of those great distinctive faces. Seeing him in a movie was knowing that things were going to be at least entertaining. A true comfort.
Very true. He was one of those actors who always brought his A game to any role he did. I really enjoyed his presence in every movie he was in, specially in In the Name of the Father.
Part of the joy of watching "The Usual Suspects" 10,000+ times since its release is when Pete shows up and delivers like 10 minutes worth of exposition in his two scenes and makes every dang second of his on-screen time entertaining and a stand-out among a cast of stand-outs. R.I.P. Kobayashi. :-(
A friend on a course I was taking at University some ten years ago did a little bit of extra work during the summer holidays and, on coming back, mentioned that she had a tiny walk on part in a TV movie that starred Pete Postlethwaite called Butterfly Collectors. I'll always remember her saying that he was an extremely nice and approachable person on those couple of occasions she saw him - he apparently didn't mind at all her attempts at scene stealing in the background of the shots in a police station by doing things like walking purposefully up and down corridors and shuffling papers around!
He was one of my favourite actors when I first discovered him in 90's and then hadn't seen much of anything with him in it for quite a while (though looking through his filmography I'm seeing I just hadn't seen many of the films he was in during the past decade.) I was then excited to see him in both Inception and The Town recently (and we was fantastic in both) thinking I'd see him in much more, though he did look incredibly gaunt in both. I'm even more saddened by this loss.
Source of conformation of this tragedy. I love his crime films so much. It's really unfortunate that this happened now when it seems his films are gaining in popularity again. One of the few directors who could make a tense action film completely composed of dialouge.
