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Pete Postlethwaite

September 2022

  • A composite image featuring Kenneth Branagh as Hamlet, Meryl Streep as Thatcher and the couple from Brief Encounter

    Darling, you were dreadful! The best (and worst) big-screen performances of all time

    What makes cinema acting great – or awful? As Harry Styles raises eyebrows in two new films, our film critics name the portrayals that really blew them away

September 2021

  • Maxine Peake in The Skriker by Caryl Churchill at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, 2015.

    Made in Manchester: the Royal Exchange theatre at 45 – in pictures

    The Royal Exchange in Manchester opened its doors on on 15 September 1976. Here’s a look back at some of the mighty productions staged in its atmospheric in-the-round space

June 2020

  • Pete Postlethwaite as Macbeth in 1997

    Foul is fair: stunning shots of Shakespeare's Macbeth – in pictures

    As the RSC’s production starring Christopher Eccleston is broadcast on BBC Four, take a look back at some of the most arresting stagings of the ‘Scottish play’

March 2019

  • ‘Lady Macbeth was the first one in’ … Postlethwaite takes a dip before rehearsals.

    'I'm raising demons': Billy Postlethwaite on playing Macbeth in his dad's shadow

    He grew up listening to his father Pete reciting Shakespeare over breakfast. Now Billy Postlethwaite is taking on the part that obsessed them both: Macbeth

August 2018

  • Distant Voices, Still Lives.

    Distant Voices, Still Lives review – vividly present autobiographical masterpiece

    Pete Postlethwaite and Freda Dowie shine in Terence Davies’s remarkable 1988 portrait of a working-class Liverpool family that is as gripping as any thriller

April 2017

  • ‘Ewan and I became like muckers’ … Ewan McGregor and Tara Fitzgerald in Brassed Off.

    How we made
    How we made Brassed Off

    ‘I spent months learning the flugelhorn – and I didn’t even have to play it’

December 2016

  • Chris Pratt and Michael Sheen in Passengers.

    Michael Sheen, Passengers and why Hollywood's hottest leads need a quirky Brit

    How do you make Tom Cruise seem more heroic? Add Simon Pegg. Need Chris Pratt to be more macho? Add Michael Sheen. Why are Britain’s character actors becoming kooky foils to Hollywood smoothies?

October 2016

  • Steven Berkoff in his adaption of Kafka’s Metamorphosis.

    Theatre in the Roundhouse: Berkoff, Warhol and an age of experimentation – in pictures

    London’s Roundhouse is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Revisit some of the theatre that was staged in its first wave of activity, from the late 1960s to the early 80s

July 2016

  • Cyrano de Bergerac, 1997

    The RSC's Swan theatre: 30 years of intimate encounters – in pictures

    The Swan theatre is celebrating its 30th birthday. Take a look at three decades of shows that have graced its distinctive deep-thrust stage, starring actors such as Jeremy Irons, Lydia Leonard, Mark Rylance and Harriet Walter

June 2016

  • Paul Scofield as King Lear.

    King Lear, past and present – in pictures

    Shakespeare’s tragic monarch remains one of the most demanding roles in theatre. Revisit the key portrayals on stage and screen, from Olivier and Scofield to Jonathan Pryce and Geoffrey Rush

January 2015

  • Julie Walters

    Julie Walters: ‘People like me wouldn't get a chance today'

    She was a working-class kid who got her break in the revolutionary 1970s theatre scene. The grande dame of British acting sounds off to Simon Hattenstone about privilege, politics and her drinking days

September 2014

  • Zoe Williams

    The battle between capital and labour is still raging on film

    Zoe Williams
    Zoe Williams: Pride, Billy Elliott and Brassed Off see the crushing of unions for what it was – a new phase in a war that never really went away

April 2013

  • Gary Kempston

    Brassed off at the hymns of praise to Thatcher

    Letters: Pete Postlethwaite's peroration on the enormous ramifications of the destruction of our mining communities should surely be viewed throughout the land

November 2012

  • British cult classics: watch on demand
    Distant Voices, Still Lives and A Zed and Two Noughts: watch the double bill

  • Still from Terence Davies' Distant Voices, Still Lives

    British cult classics: watch on demand
    British cult classics double bill: Distant Voices, Still Lives and A Zed & Two Noughts - video

April 2012

  • Katharine Hepburn

    Critic's notebook
    Michael Billington on actors

    Michael Billington: Actors, I criticise you because I care

July 2011

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    A Spectacle of Dust by Pete Postlethwaite – review

    Vanessa Thorpe is enthralled by the late Pete Postlethwaite's autobiography

June 2011

  • Pete Postlethwaite

    A Spectacle of Dust by Pete Postlethwaite – review

    Peter Bradshaw enjoys Pete Postlethwaite's autobiography

March 2011

  • Killing Bono

    Killing Bono – review

    The real-life story of rivalry over teenage bands – one of which turns out to be U2 – makes for an entertaining, fun movie

January 2011

  • Letter: Pete Postlethwaite obituary

    Phil Penfold writes: I got to know the glorious Pete Postlethwaite (obituary, 4 January) as his "seaside landlord" when he and the RSC visited Tyneside in the early 1980s
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