Pete Postlethwaite
Known for: Acting
Born: February 7, 1946
Died: January 2, 2011
Place of birth: Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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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Filmography
89 movies · 27 TV shows, newest first
6.2
Killing Bono
2011
6.6
Return to Jurassic Park
2011
7.2
The Town
2010
8.4
Inception
2010
5.9
Clash of the Titans
2010
6.0
Solomon Kane
2009
6.6
The Age of Stupid
2009
NR
Tattoos: A Scarred History
2009
NR
Clough: The Brian Clough Story
2009NR
Waving at Trains
2009NR
Player
2008
7.6
Criminal Justice
2008
6.2
Closing the Ring
2007
4.5
Ghost Son
2007
5.6
The Omen
2006
7.3
Valley of the Heart's Delight
2006
4.0
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
20068.3
Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water'
2005
5.6
Æon Flux
2005
7.0
The Constant Gardener
2005
5.7
Dark Water
2005
5.3
Red Mercury
2005
5.9
The Limit
2004
5.8
Strange Bedfellows
2004
NR
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
2003
NR
Thora Hird Tribute
2003
5.9
Cowboy Up
2002
5.6
Between Strangers
2002
4.8
Triggermen
2002
6.4
The Shipping News
2001
3.4
Richard & Judy
2001
7.0
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
5.3
The Sins
2000
6.0
Rat
2000
4.7
When the Sky Falls
2000
5.7
Animal Farm
1999
4.4
Wayward Son
1999
7.0
Butterfly Collectors
1999
6.2
Alice in Wonderland
1999
6.5
Lost for Words
1999
10.0
The Divine Ryans
1999
NR
The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.
1999
5.1
Among Giants
1998
7.0
Amistad
1997
5.7
Brute
1997
6.1
Sharpe: The Legend
1997
6.6
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997
5.4
The Serpent's Kiss
1997
6.9
The Making of 'The Lost World'
1997
6.8
Romeo + Juliet
1996
7.0
Brassed Off
1996
4.3
Crimetime
1996
6.6
DragonHeart
1996
6.6
James and the Giant Peach
1996
5.8
When Saturday Comes
1996
7.1
TFI Friday
1996
8.2
The Usual Suspects
1995
5.8
Suite 16
1994
8.4
Martin Chuzzlewit
1994
6.8
Sharpe's Enemy
1994
6.7
Sharpe's Company
1994
9.0
Sin Bin
1994
8.3
Pie in the Sky
1994
7.9
In the Name of the Father
1993
5.9
Anchoress
1993
8.0
Sharpe
1993
6.4
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992
5.5
Between the Lines
1992
7.4
The Last of the Mohicans
1992
6.3
Waterland
1992
6.4
Alien³
1992
6.0
Split Second
1992
NR
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1992
8.5
The Grass Arena
1992
NR
They Never Slept
1991
6.6
Hamlet
1990NR
A Box of Swan
1990NR
Kingdom Come
1990
10.0
Needle
1990NR
Debut on Two
1990
6.7
Treasure Island
199010.0
El C.I.D.
1990
7.1
Zorro
1990NR
Tales of Sherwood Forest
1989
4.6
The Dressmaker
1988
6.9
Distant Voices, Still Lives
1988
9.0
Number 27
1988
6.2
To Kill a Priest
1988
5.7
Tumbledown
1988
7.0
Coast to Coast
1987
6.2
Casualty
1986
6.0
ScreenPlay
1986
7.4
Lovejoy
1986
NR
A Crack in the Ice
19856.6
Cyrano de Bergerac
1985
7.1
Screen Two
1985
6.4
A Private Function
1984
5.0
Mitch
1984
9.0
Fords on Water
1983
NR
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
1981
7.0
The Muscle Market
1981
7.1
Minder
1979
NR
Afternoon Off
1979
6.5
Doris and Doreen
1978
7.7
Going Straight
1978
7.2
The Duellists
1977
6.0
Plays for Britain
1976
NR
The Paradise Run
1976
10.0
Occupy!
1976
NR
Thwum
1975
NR
The Racer
1975NR
Second City Firsts
1973
7.2
Last of the Summer Wine
1973
6.6
Play for Today
1970
7.0
The Oscars
1953
10.0
The BAFTA Awards
1949