
Pete Postlethwaite
Born February 7, 1946 · 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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The Shipping News

Closing the Ring

Brassed Off

Return to Jurassic Park

Animal Farm

Hamlet

To Kill a Priest

Distant Voices, Still Lives

Tattoos: A Scarred History

The Serpent's Kiss

Triggermen

A Private Function

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

The Making of 'The Lost World'

Sharpe's Company

Between Strangers

Killing Bono

Sharpe's Enemy

Sharpe: The Legend

Strange Bedfellows

Waterland

Occupy!

When Saturday Comes

When the Sky Falls

The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.

Rat

Strike: The Birth of Solidarity

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Crack in the Ice

The Dressmaker

Wayward Son

Valley of the Heart's Delight

Ghost Son

Crimetime

Among Giants

The Limit

The Grass Arena

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

Red Mercury

Brute

Coast to Coast

Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose

Tumbledown

Anchoress

Cowboy Up

They Never Slept

The Age of Stupid

Amistad

Suite 16

Afternoon Off

The Muscle Market

Fords on Water

Thora Hird Tribute

Thwum

The Divine Ryans

Number 27

Lost for Words

Needle

The Paradise Run

Sin Bin

Clough: The Brian Clough Story

Doris and Doreen

The Lost World: Jurassic Park










































