Overview

Know for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
07 Feb, 1946 (79 years old)

Pete Postlethwaite

Biography

Pete Postlethwaite (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.

Known For

Killing Bono
HD
115 min 2011

Killing Bono

Comedy
The Age of Stupid
HD
92 min 2009

The Age of Stupid

War
Solomon Kane
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104 min 2009

Solomon Kane

Adventure
Strange Bedfellows
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100 min 2004

Strange Bedfellows

Comedy
Sins
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2000

Sins

Drama
When the Sky Falls
HD
107 min 2000

When the Sky Falls

Drama

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