Pete Postlethwaite
Acting
- Nacimiento:
- 1946-02-07
- Fallecimiento:
- 2011-01-02
- Lugar de nacimiento:
- Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
Biografía
Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE (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.
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Filmografía
Killing Bono
Return to Jurassic Park
The Town: Ciudad de ladrones
Origen
Furia de titanes
Solomon Kane
La era de la estupidez
Tattoos: A Scarred History
Clough: The Brian Clough Story
Waving at Trains
Player
Presunto Culpable
Cerrando el círculo
Ghost Son
La profecía
Valley of the Heart's Delight
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water'
Aeon Flux
El jardinero fiel
Dark Water (La huella)
Red Mercury
The Limit
Strange Bedfellows
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
Thora Hird Tribute
Cowboy Up
Entre extraños
Triggermen (Perseguidos por la Mafia)
Atando cabos
Richard & Judy
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
The Sins
Mi vida como una rata
El valor de la verdad
Rebelión en la granja
Wayward Son
Butterfly Collectors
Alicia en el País de las Maravillas
Lost for Words
The Divine Ryans
The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.
Entre gigantes.
Amistad
Bandyta
Sharpe: The Legend
El mundo perdido: Jurassic Park
El beso de la serpiente
The Making of 'The Lost World'
Romeo + Julieta de William Shakespeare
Tocando el viento
La hora del crimen
Dragonheart (Corazón de dragón)
James y el melocotón gigante
Camino a la gloria
TFI Friday
Sospechosos habituales
Suite 16
Martin Chuzzlewit
Enemigo de Sharpe
La compañia de Sharpe
Sin Bin
Pie in the Sky
En el nombre del padre
Anchoress
Sharpe
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Between the Lines
El último mohicano
El país del agua
Alien III
Segundo sangriento
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Grass Arena
They Never Slept
Hamlet, el honor de la venganza
A Box of Swan
Kingdom Come
Needle
Debut on Two
La isla del tesoro
El C.I.D.
El Zorro
Tales of Sherwood Forest
The Dressmaker
Voces Distantes
Number 27
Conspiración Para Matar A Un Cura
Tumbledown
Coast to Coast
Casualty
ScreenPlay
Boon
Lovejoy
A Crack in the Ice
Cyrano de Bergerac
Screen Two
Función privada
Mitch
Fords on Water
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
The Muscle Market
Minder
Afternoon Off
Doris and Doreen
Going Straight
Los duelistas
Plays for Britain
The Paradise Run
Occupy!
Thwum
The Racer
Second City Firsts
Last of the Summer Wine
Play for Today
The Oscars
The BAFTA Awards