Pete Postlethwaite
Biography
Pete Postlethwaite (February 7, 1946 – January 2, 2011) was an English stage, film and television actor. After minor television appearances including in The Professionals, Postlethwaite's first success came with the film Distant Voices, Still Lives in 1988. He played a mysterious lawyer, Mr. Kobayashi, in The Usual Suspects, and he appeared in Alien 3, In the Name of the Father, Amistad, Brassed Off, The Shipping News, The Constant Gardener, The Age of Stupid, Inception, The Town, Romeo + Juliet, and Æon Flux. In television, Postlethwaite's most notable performance was as the villain Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill in the Sharpe television series and television movies opposite actor Sean Bean's character of Richard Sharpe. Postlethwaite was born in Warrington, England in 1946. He trained as a teacher and taught drama before training as an actor. Steven Spielberg called Postlethwaite "the best actor in the world" after working with him on The Lost World: Jurassic Park. He received an Academy Award nomination for his role in In the Name of the Father in 1993, and was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2004 New Year's Honours List. He died of pancreatic cancer.
Acting (81 movies)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997
Romeo + Juliet
1996
Bandyta
1997
The Usual Suspects
1995
When Saturday Comes
1996
Animal Farm
1999
James and the Giant Peach
1996
The Constant Gardener
2005
The Shipping News
2001
Thwum
1975
The Town
2010
Triggermen
2002
In the Name of the Father
1993
Amistad
1997
Alien³
1992
Æon Flux
2005
The Age of Stupid
2009
Strange Bedfellows
2004
DragonHeart
1996
Dark Water
2005
Brassed Off
1996
Split Second
1992
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
2006
The Last of the Mohicans
1992
Inception
2010
Solomon Kane
2009
Closing the Ring
2007
Distant Voices, Still Lives
1988
Fords on Water
1983
Between Strangers
2002
To Kill a Priest
1988
Red Mercury
2005
Suite 16
1994
Clash of the Titans
2010
Ghost Son
2007
Killing Bono
2011
Cowboy Up
2002
Sharpe's Company
1994
Sharpe's Enemy
1994
A Private Function
1984
Among Giants
1998
Crimetime
1996
The Dressmaker
1988
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
2003
Waterland
1992
The Limit
2004
Anchoress
1993
Valley of the Heart's Delight
2006
Rat
2000
The Divine Ryans
1999
Coast to Coast
1987
Lost for Words
1999
They Never Slept
1991
The Grass Arena
1992
The Muscle Market
1981
The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.
1999
Sin Bin
1994
The Paradise Run
1976
Needle
1990
Occupy!
1976
Doris and Doreen
1978
Afternoon Off
1979
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
Hamlet
1990
Sharpe: The Legend
1997
Alice in Wonderland
1999
Tumbledown
1988
Treasure Island
1990
When the Sky Falls
2000
Wayward Son
1999
The Making of 'The Lost World'
1997
Clough: The Brian Clough Story
2009
Return to Jurassic Park
2011
The Duellists
1977
The Serpent's Kiss
1997
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
1981
The Omen
2006
Tattoos: A Scarred History
2009
Number 27
1988
A Crack in the Ice
1985
The Racer
1975
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