Actor | Producer
Pete Postlethwaite (February 7, 1946 - January 2, 2011) was an English stage, film and television actor. After minor ...
The Shipping News
... 2001
Æon Flux
... 2005
The Constant Gardener
... 2005
The Town
... 2010
Dark Water
... 2005
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.
Domme
... 2023
Keith
... 2008
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
... 2023
Old
... 2021
Avatar: The Last Airbender
... 2024
Au Revoir les Enfants
... 1987
Notes on a Scandal
... 2006
Clifford the Big Red Dog
... 2021
Mystic Pizza
... 1988