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Pete Postlethwaite

Pete Postlethwaite

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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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Killing Bono
Killing Bono
Karl
2011
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The Town
The Town
Fergus "Fergie" Colm
2010
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Inception
Inception
Maurice Fischer
2010
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Clash of the Titans
Clash of the Titans
Spyros
2010
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Solomon Kane
Solomon Kane
William Crowthorn
2009
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Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice
Hooch
2008
TV
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Pete Postlethwaite
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.

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