Pete Postlethwaite
Acting
- Born:
- 1946-02-07
- Died:
- 2011-01-02
- Place of birth:
- Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Killing Bono
Return to Jurassic Park
The Town
Inception
Clash of the Titans
Solomon Kane
The Age of Stupid
Tattoos: A Scarred History
Clough: The Brian Clough Story
Waving at Trains
Player
Criminal Justice
Closing the Ring
Ghost Son
The Omen
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
Strange Bedfellows
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
Thora Hird Tribute
Cowboy Up
Between Strangers
Triggermen
The Shipping News
Richard & Judy
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
The Sins
Rat
When the Sky Falls
Animal Farm
Wayward Son
Butterfly Collectors
Alice in Wonderland
Lost for Words
The Divine Ryans
The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.
Among Giants
Amistad
Brute
Sharpe: The Legend
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
The Serpent's Kiss
The Making of 'The Lost World'
Romeo + Juliet
Brassed Off
Crimetime
DragonHeart
James and the Giant Peach
When Saturday Comes
TFI Friday
The Usual Suspects
Suite 16
Martin Chuzzlewit
Sharpe's Enemy
Sharpe's Company
Sin Bin
Pie in the Sky
In the Name of the Father
Anchoress
Sharpe
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Between the Lines
The Last of the Mohicans
Waterland
Alien³
Split Second
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Grass Arena
They Never Slept
Hamlet
A Box of Swan
Kingdom Come
Needle
Debut on Two
Treasure Island
El C.I.D.
Zorro
Tales of Sherwood Forest
The Dressmaker
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Number 27
To Kill a Priest
Tumbledown
Coast to Coast
Casualty
ScreenPlay
Boon
Lovejoy
A Crack in the Ice
Cyrano de Bergerac
Screen Two
A Private Function
Mitch
Fords on Water
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
The Muscle Market
Minder
Afternoon Off
Doris and Doreen
Going Straight
The Duellists
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