Pete Postlethwaite
Acting
- Naissance:
- 1946-02-07
- Décès:
- 2011-01-02
- Lieu de naissance:
- Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
Biographie
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.
Connu pour
Filmographie
Killing Bono
Return to Jurassic Park
The Town
Inception
Le Choc des Titans
Solomon Kane
L'âge de la stupidité
Tattoos: A Scarred History
Clough: The Brian Clough Story
Waving at Trains
Player
Criminal Justice
War And Destiny
Ghost Son
666, La Malédiction
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'
Æon Flux
The Constant Gardener
Dark Water
Red Mercury
The Limit
Tout ou rien
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
Thora Hird Tribute
Cowboy Up
Cœurs inconnus
Triggermen, petites arnaques entre amis
Terre neuve
Richard & Judy
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
The Sins
Rat
When the Sky Falls
La Ferme des Animaux
Wayward Son
Butterfly Collectors
Alice au Pays des Merveilles
Lost for Words
The Divine Ryans
The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.
Les Géants
Amistad
Bandyta
Sharpe: The Legend
Le monde perdu : Jurassic Park
Le Baiser du serpent
The Making of 'The Lost World'
Roméo + Juliette
Les virtuoses
Crime Time
Cœur de dragon
James et la Pêche géante
When Saturday Comes
TFI Friday
Usual Suspects
Suite 16
Martin Chuzzlewit
Sharpe's Enemy
Sharpe's Company
Sin Bin
Pie in the Sky
Au nom du père
Anchoress
Sharpe
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Between the Lines
Le Dernier des Mohicans
Waterland
Alien³
Killer Instinct
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Grass Arena
They Never Slept
Hamlet
A Box of Swan
Kingdom Come
Needle
Debut on Two
L'Île au trésor
El C.I.D.
Les Nouvelles Aventures de Zorro
Tales of Sherwood Forest
The Dressmaker
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Number 27
Le Complot
Tumbledown
Coast to Coast
Casualty
ScreenPlay
Boon
Lovejoy
A Crack in the Ice
Cyrano de Bergerac
Screen Two
Porc Royal
Mitch
Fords on Water
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
The Muscle Market
Minder
Afternoon Off
Doris and Doreen
Going Straight
Les Duellistes
Plays for Britain
The Paradise Run
Occupy!
Thwum
The Racer
Second City Firsts
Last of the Summer Wine
Play for Today
Cérémonie des Oscars
The BAFTA Awards