
Pete Postlethwaite
Known for ActingBorn 1946-02-07Died 2011-01-02Warrington, 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.Read more
Movies & web series
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The Divine Ryans
1999 · Movie
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Needle
1990 · Movie
El C.I.D.
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El C.I.D.
1990 · Series
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Occupy!
1976 · Movie
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The BAFTA Awards
1949 · Series
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Sin Bin
1994 · Movie
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Number 27
1988 · Movie
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Fords on Water
1983 · Movie
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Inception
2010 · Movie
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The Grass Arena
1992 · Movie
Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water'
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Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water'
2005 · Movie
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Martin Chuzzlewit
1994 · Series
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Pie in the Sky
1994 · Series
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The Usual Suspects
1995 · Movie
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Sharpe
1993 · Series
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In the Name of the Father
1993 · Movie
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Criminal Justice
2008 · Series
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Going Straight
1978 · Series
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Valley of the Heart's Delight
2006 · Movie
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The Town
2010 · Movie
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The Last of the Mohicans
1992 · Movie
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Lovejoy
1986 · Series
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The Constant Gardener
2005 · Movie
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The Duellists
1977 · Movie
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Zorro
1990 · Series
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Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000 · Movie
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Screen Two
1985 · Series
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Butterfly Collectors
1999 · Series
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Amistad
1997 · Movie
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Brassed Off
1996 · Movie
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Minder
1979 · Series
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Coast to Coast
1987 · Movie
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The Making of 'The Lost World'
1997 · Movie
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Last of the Summer Wine
1973 · Series
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The Muscle Market
1981 · Movie
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Romeo + Juliet
1996 · Movie
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Sharpe's Enemy
1994 · Movie
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Sharpe's Company
1994 · Movie
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Return to Jurassic Park
2011 · Movie
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Distant Voices, Still Lives
1988 · Movie
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The Age of Stupid
2009 · Movie
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James and the Giant Peach
1996 · Movie
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997 · Movie
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The Oscars
1953 · Series
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DragonHeart
1996 · Movie
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Hamlet
1990 · Movie
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Treasure Island
1990 · Movie
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Lost for Words
1999 · Movie