Postlethwaite loses long fight with cancer

OSCAR-NOMINATED actor Pete Postlethwaite has died after a long fight with cancer.

Postlethwaite loses long fight with cancer
Tue, 04 Jan, 2011 - 00:00

Journalist and friend, Andrew Richardson, said Postlethwaite passed away peacefully in hospital in Shropshire on Sunday. He was 64.

Julie Walters led tributes to a man equally at home on stage or the set of a Hollywood blockbuster.

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