Pete Postlethwaite

Acting · 1.9 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: February 7, 1946 – January 2, 2011
From: 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.

Works

89 films

Inception

20108.4

The Usual Suspects

19958.2

Alien³

19926.4

The Town

20107.2

Romeo + Juliet

19966.8

Clash of the Titans

20105.9

The Last of the Mohicans

19927.4

Æon Flux

20055.6

In the Name of the Father

19937.9

DragonHeart

19966.6

Dark Water

20055.7

Solomon Kane

20096.0

The Omen

20065.7

James and the Giant Peach

19966.6

The Constant Gardener

20057.0

Split Second

19925.9

Alice in Wonderland

19996.2

Treasure Island

19906.6

Brassed Off

19967.0

Animal Farm

19995.7

The Duellists

19777.2

Hamlet

19906.6

The Shipping News

20016.4

Closing the Ring

20076.2

Triggermen

20024.8

Sharpe: The Legend

19976.1

Occupy!

197610.0

Sharpe's Company

19946.8

Rat

20006.0

A Private Function

19846.4

Tattoos: A Scarred History

2009

Distant Voices, Still Lives

19886.8

Return to Jurassic Park

20116.6

Anchoress

19935.9

Killing Bono

20116.2

Sharpe's Enemy

19946.8

The Making of 'The Lost World'

19976.9

Valley of the Heart's Delight

20067.3

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

20007.0

Cowboy Up

20025.9

To Kill a Priest

19886.1

Between Strangers

20025.6

Suite 16

19945.8

The Age of Stupid

20096.6

The Limit

20045.9

Waterland

19926.3

Strange Bedfellows

20045.8

Tumbledown

19885.7

Ghost Son

20074.5

Player

2008

The Serpent's Kiss

19975.5

Amistad

19977.0

Strike: The Birth of Solidarity

1981

Wayward Son

19994.4

Among Giants

19985.1

Brute

19975.7

When the Sky Falls

20004.7

When Saturday Comes

19965.7

Kingdom Come

1990

Crimetime

19964.3

They Never Slept

1991

The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.

1999

The Dressmaker

19884.6

Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water'

20058.3

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

19976.6

Afternoon Off

1979

Red Mercury

20055.3

Doris and Doreen

19786.5

Sin Bin

19949.0

Lost for Words

19996.5

Thwum

1975

Number 27

19889.0

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1992

Cyrano de Bergerac

19856.6

A Crack in the Ice

1985

Clough: The Brian Clough Story

2009

The Divine Ryans

199910.0

Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener

20064.0

The Paradise Run

1976

The Grass Arena

19928.5

The Racer

1975

Coast to Coast

19877.0

Fords on Water

19839.0

Needle

199010.0

Thora Hird Tribute

2003

A Box of Swan

1990

The Muscle Market

19817.0

Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose

2003

Waving at Trains

2009