Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1946-02-07
Day of Death
2011-01-02
Place of Birth
Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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.
Filmography (89)
Killing Bono
2011
Return to Jurassic Park
2011
The Town
2010
Inception
2010
Clash of the Titans
2010
Solomon Kane
2009
The Age of Stupid
2009
Tattoos: A Scarred History
2009
Clough: The Brian Clough Story
2009Waving at Trains
2009Player
2008
Closing the Ring
2007
Ghost Son
2007
The Omen
2006
