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He could have stayed in teaching. That's what his parents
wanted: it was the safe, secure route for a young man with
working-class roots and a face few would describe as handsome.
But Pete Postlethwaite wanted more. He wanted to pursue his
passion for acting and, at 24, he left teaching to train at the
Bristol Old Vic theater. His parents remained skeptical, but
when he was introduced to Queen Elizabeth II after a stellar
1980s performance with the Royal Shakespeare Company, even his
mother was convinced he would make his mark.  It was an
incredible ascent for Postlethwaite, a distinguished character
actor with a remarkably craggy, timeworn face whose death at age
64 was confirmed Monday by Andrew Richardson, a long