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Pete Postlethwaite
🎂 Feb 7, 1946 — 🕯️ Jan 2, 2011 (64 years)
Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK 1.7 popularity
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.
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Pete Postlethwaite (80 years old), from Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, has appeared in 58 movies and 16 TV shows over a 62-year career. Notable performances include Inception, The Usual Suspects, The Town.
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Inception
2010
The Usual Suspects
1995
The Town
2010
Alien³
1992
Clash of the Titans
2010
Romeo + Juliet
1996
The Last of the Mohicans
1992
Æon Flux
2005
Closing the Ring
2007
The Constant Gardener
2005
The Shipping News
2001
James and the Giant Peach
1996
DragonHeart
1996
In the Name of the Father
1993
Solomon Kane
2009
The Omen
2006
Alice in Wonderland
1999
Dark Water
2005
Brassed Off
1996
The Duellists
1977
Hamlet
1990
Split Second
1992
Animal Farm
1999
Rat
2000
Waterland
1992
The Dressmaker
1988
When Saturday Comes
1996
Crimetime
1996
A Private Function
1984
Between Strangers
2002
Anchoress
1993
When the Sky Falls
2000
Triggermen
2002
Brute
1997
The Limit
2004
To Kill a Priest
1988
Amistad
1997
Among Giants
1998
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
The Serpent's Kiss
1997
Cowboy Up
2002
Killing Bono
2011
Wayward Son
1999
Ghost Son
2007
Distant Voices, Still Lives
1988
Strange Bedfellows
2004
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997
Suite 16
1994
TV Shows
The Sins
2000
Criminal Justice
2008
Martin Chuzzlewit
1994
Sharpe
1993
Butterfly Collectors
1999
Going Straight
1978
Minder
1979
Between the Lines
1992
Last of the Summer Wine
1973
Lovejoy
1986
Mitch
1984
Pie in the Sky
1994
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992
Screen Two
1985
Zorro
1990
Play for Today
1970
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Pete Postlethwaite
1946-02-07 · Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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.