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Pete Postlethwaite

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  • 1945 - 2011

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Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE ( 7 February 1946 – 2 January 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 on 2 January 2011. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pete Postlethwaite, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Birthday: 1945-02-07

Born At: Warrington, UK

Casted In:

The Lost World: Jurassic Park
330
Bandyta
471
The Usual Suspects
629
The Omen
806
Animal Farm
815
When Saturday Comes
1608
The Constant Gardener
1985
The Shipping News
6440
In the Name of the Father
7984
Alien³
8077
Æon Flux
8202
DragonHeart
8840
Dark Water
9009
The Last of the Mohicans
9361
Brassed Off
9450
Hamlet
10264
James and the Giant Peach
10539
Amistad
11831
Split Second
13006
Closing the Ring
13957
Clash of the Titans
18823
The Duellists
19067
The Town
23168
Triggermen
24079
The Age of Stupid
24458
Inception
27205
Alice in Wonderland
30923
Strange Bedfellows
32141
Solomon Kane
32985
Between Strangers
38866
Distant Voices, Still Lives
41799
To Kill a Priest
47493
Red Mercury
47514
Suite 16
47587
Ghost Son
50392
Cyrano de Bergerac
53183
Killing Bono
54093
Cowboy Up
56087
A Private Function
57565
Sharpe's Company
74405
Sharpe's Enemy
75133
When the Sky Falls
99011
Crimetime
99859
Gone Dark
115842
Anchoress
116233
Valley of the Heart's Delight
116584
Rat
118052
Tumbledown
121154
The Dressmaker
123608
Among Giants
125123
Waterland
145066
The Divine Ryans
184787
Coast to Coast
207344
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
211230
The Paradise Run
236629
Lost for Words
241521
The Grass Arena
262734
The Muscle Market
270103
Sin Bin
322835
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
323956
Needle
327206
Occupy!
336217
Rebelión en la Granja
347698
Jurassic park 2 - Le monde perdu
357976
Doris and Doreen
364559
Afternoon Off
364642
Criminal Justice
371496
Alien3: Special Edition
378013
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