Pete Postlethwaite

Known for ActingBorn 1946-02-07Died 2011-01-02Warrington, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Divine Ryans

Needle

El C.I.D.

Occupy!

The BAFTA Awards

Sin Bin

Number 27

Fords on Water

Inception

The Grass Arena

Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water'

Martin Chuzzlewit

Pie in the Sky

The Usual Suspects

Sharpe

In the Name of the Father

Criminal Justice

Going Straight

Valley of the Heart's Delight

The Town

The Last of the Mohicans

Lovejoy

The Duellists

TFI Friday

The Constant Gardener

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

Zorro

Minder

Butterfly Collectors

Amistad

Brassed Off

Screen Two

Last of the Summer Wine

Coast to Coast

The Making of 'The Lost World'

The Muscle Market

Distant Voices, Still Lives

Sharpe's Enemy

Romeo + Juliet

Return to Jurassic Park

The Age of Stupid

Sharpe's Company

The Oscars

James and the Giant Peach

Treasure Island

DragonHeart

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Hamlet