Pete Postlethwaite
Born February 07, 1946 (Age: 80)
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Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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.
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.
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Filmography
Return to Jurassic Park
2011
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as Self
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Age: 64
The Town
2010
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as Fergus "Fergie" Colm
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Age: 64
Inception
2010
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as Maurice Fischer
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Age: 64
Clash of the Titans
2010
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as Spyros
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Age: 64
Solomon Kane
2009
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as William Crowthorn
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Age: 63
Tattoos: A Scarred History
2009
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as Self
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Age: 63
Clough: The Brian Clough Story
2009
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as Narrator
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Age: 63
No Image
Waving at Trains
2009
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as Douglas Warren
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Age: 62
The Omen
2006
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as Father Brennan
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Age: 60
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
2006
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as Self
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Age: 59
Æon Flux
2005
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as Keeper
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Age: 59
The Constant Gardener
2005
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as Lorbeer
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Age: 59
Dark Water
2005
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as Veeck
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Age: 59
Strange Bedfellows
2004
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as Russell McKenzie (taxman)
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Age: 58
Cowboy Up
2002
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as Reid Braxton
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Age: 56
Between Strangers
2002
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as John
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Age: 56
Triggermen
2002
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as Ben Cutler
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Age: 56
The Shipping News
2001
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as Tert Card
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Age: 55
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
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as Various Characters
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Age: 54
Rat
2000
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as Hubert Flynn
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Age: 54
When the Sky Falls
2000
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as Martin Shaughnessy
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Age: 54
The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.
1999
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as Self
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Age: 52
Among Giants
1998
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as Ray
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Age: 52
Amistad
1997
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as Holabird
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Age: 51
Brute
1997
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as Sincai
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Age: 51
Sharpe: The Legend
1997
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as Hakeswill
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Age: 51
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997
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as Roland Tembo
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Age: 51
The Serpent's Kiss
1997
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as Thomas Smith
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Age: 51
The Making of 'The Lost World'
1997
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as Self
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Age: 51
Romeo + Juliet
1996
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as Father Laurence
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Age: 50
Brassed Off
1996
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as Danny
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Age: 50
Crimetime
1996
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as Sidney
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Age: 50
DragonHeart
1996
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as Gilbert
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Age: 50
James and the Giant Peach
1996
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as The Magic Man
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Age: 50
When Saturday Comes
1996
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as Ken Jackson
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Age: 50
The Usual Suspects
1995
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as Kobayashi
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Age: 49
In the Name of the Father
1993
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as Giuseppe Conlon
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Age: 47
Anchoress
1993
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as William Carpenter
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Age: 47
The Last of the Mohicans
1992
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as Captain Beams
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Age: 46
Waterland
1992
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as Henry Crick
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Age: 46
Alien³
1992
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as David
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Age: 46
Split Second
1992
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as Paulsen
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Age: 46
The Grass Arena
1992
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as The Dipper
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Age: 45
They Never Slept
1991
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as Panter
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Age: 44
Hamlet
1990
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as Player King
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Age: 44
No Image
A Box of Swan
1990
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as Tony
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Age: 44
No Image
Kingdom Come
1990
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as Keef
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Age: 44
Needle
1990
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as Paula's Father
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Age: 44
Treasure Island
1990
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as George Merry
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Age: 43
The Dressmaker
1988
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as Jack
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Age: 42
Distant Voices, Still Lives
1988
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as Father
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Age: 42
Number 27
1988
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as Becket
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Age: 42
To Kill a Priest
1988
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as Josef
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Age: 42
Tumbledown
1988
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as Major (Rehabilitation Centre)
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Age: 42
Coast to Coast
1987
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as Kecks McGuinness
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Age: 40
A Crack in the Ice
1985
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as Painter
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Age: 39
No Image
Cyrano de Bergerac
1985
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as Ragueneau
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Age: 39
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
1981
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as Ireneusz Lesniak
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Age: 35
The Muscle Market
1981
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as Danny Duggan
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Age: 34
Doris and Doreen
1978
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as Mr. Lomax
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Age: 32
Thwum
1975
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as Duffy
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Age: 29
The Racer
1975
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as Ecco
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Age: 28