Pete Postlethwaite
Acting
Born 1946-02-07
Died 2011-01-02
Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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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
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Inception
Play for Today
Casualty
Minder
Screen Two
Last of the Summer Wine
Alien³
The Oscars
The Usual Suspects
TFI Friday
Romeo + Juliet
Clash of the Titans
The Town
Richard & Judy
Sharpe
The BAFTA Awards
Lovejoy
Pie in the Sky
The Last of the Mohicans
Between the Lines
Æon Flux
ScreenPlay
Zorro
DragonHeart
In the Name of the Father
Solomon Kane
The Omen
Dark Water
Second City Firsts
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
James and the Giant Peach
The Constant Gardener
Treasure Island
Criminal Justice
Split Second
Martin Chuzzlewit
Brassed Off
Alice in Wonderland
The Duellists
Animal Farm
Hamlet
Sharpe: The Legend
Closing the Ring
The Shipping News
Mitch
Triggermen
Going Straight
El C.I.D.
Plays for Britain
The Sins
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Sharpe's Company
Rat
Killing Bono
Return to Jurassic Park
Sharpe's Enemy
Anchoress
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Cowboy Up
Waterland
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