Pete Postlethwaite

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Acting

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.

Filmography

• 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 (2009)
• Waving at Trains (2009)
• Player (2008)
• Closing the Ring (2007)
• Ghost Son (2007)
• The Omen (2006)
• Valley of the Heart's Delight (2006)
• Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener (2006)
• Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water' (2005)
• Æon Flux (2005)
• The Constant Gardener (2005)
• Dark Water (2005)
• Red Mercury (2005)
• The Limit (2004)
• Strange Bedfellows (2004)
• Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose (2003)
• Thora Hird Tribute (2003)
• Cowboy Up (2002)
• Between Strangers (2002)
• Triggermen (2002)
• The Shipping News (2001)
• Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings (2000)
• Rat (2000)
• When the Sky Falls (2000)
• Animal Farm (1999)
• Wayward Son (1999)
• Alice in Wonderland (1999)
• Lost for Words (1999)
• The Divine Ryans (1999)
• The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr. (1999)
• Among Giants (1998)
• Amistad (1997)
• Brute (1997)
• Sharpe: The Legend (1997)
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
• The Serpent's Kiss (1997)
• The Making of 'The Lost World' (1997)
• Romeo + Juliet (1996)
• Brassed Off (1996)
• Crimetime (1996)
• DragonHeart (1996)
• James and the Giant Peach (1996)
• When Saturday Comes (1996)
• The Usual Suspects (1995)
• Suite 16 (1994)
• Sharpe's Enemy (1994)
• Sharpe's Company (1994)
• Sin Bin (1994)
• In the Name of the Father (1993)
• Anchoress (1993)
• The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
• Waterland (1992)
• Alien³ (1992)
• Split Second (1992)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (1992)
• The Grass Arena (1992)
• They Never Slept (1991)
• Hamlet (1990)
• A Box of Swan (1990)
• Kingdom Come (1990)
• Needle (1990)
• Treasure Island (1990)
• The Dressmaker (1988)
• Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
• Number 27 (1988)
• To Kill a Priest (1988)
• Tumbledown (1988)
• Coast to Coast (1987)
• A Crack in the Ice (1985)
• Cyrano de Bergerac (1985)
• A Private Function (1984)
• Fords on Water (1983)
• Strike: The Birth of Solidarity (1981)
• The Muscle Market (1981)
• Afternoon Off (1979)
• Doris and Doreen (1978)
• The Duellists (1977)
• The Paradise Run (1976)
• Occupy! (1976)
• Thwum (1975)
• The Racer (1975)