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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/friends-remember-pete-postlethwaite.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Pete Postlethwaite has been remembered at a memorial service in London" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-friends-remember-pete-postlethwaite.jpg" alt="Pete Postlethwaite has been remembered at a memorial service in London"/></a></p>
<p>Family and friends including Oscar-winners Daniel Day Lewis and Kevin Spacey have celebrated the life of actor Pete Postlethwaite at a memorial service.</p>
<p>Day Lewis, who appeared alongside his friend in the Guildford Four movie In the Name of the Father, led the addresses &#8211; and sang to his widow Jacqui.</p>
<p>He told guests at the service: &#8220;My great good fortune was to serve an apprenticeship under Pete Postlethwaite.&#8221;</p>
<p>Grimethorpe Colliery Band, the brass ensemble conducted by Postlethwaite as bandleader Danny in the movie Brassed Off, performed a rousing Danny Boy.</p>
<p>And the actor&#8217;s own words rang out around the church in Shoreditch, east London, with a recording from AE Housman&#8217;s A Shropshire Lad.</p>
<p>Postlethwaite, acknowledged as one of the finest actors in the world by director Steven Spielberg, died in January after a lengthy fight with cancer. He is understood to have been diagnosed first in the early 1990s.</p>
<p>His films included The Usual Suspects, The Shipping News, Inception and Romeo + Juliet. Shropshire-based Postlethwaite landed an Oscar nomination for his performance as Guiseppe Conlon in In The Name Of The Father, about the men wrongfully imprisoned for a notorious IRA bomb attack.</p>
<p>The memorial service took place at St Leonard&#8217;s Church in Shoreditch, where among guests were a number of leading figures from the movie world, including Spacey, who played Verbal to Postlethwaite&#8217;s Kobayashi in The Usual Suspects.</p>
<p>Day Lewis, who spoke without notes, talked of Postlethwaite&#8217;s peerless ability as an actor and spoke of their days training together at the Old Vic Theatre School in Bristol.</p>
<p>Day Lewis&#8217;s first professional assignment was as his friend&#8217;s understudy and their paths crossed many times in later years including 1992&#8217;s The Last Of The Mohicans. During his address, Day Lewis sang a traditional song to Postlethwaite&#8217;s widow, Jacqui Morrish.</p>
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