Pete Postlethwaite
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.515 |
| Birthday | 1946-02-07 |
| Place of Birth | Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Peter William Postlethwaite, Peter Postlethwaite, Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE, Пит Постлетуэйт, 彼得·威廉·波斯尔思韦特, 皮特·波斯尔思韦特, |
1997
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
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1996
Romeo + Juliet
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Bandyta
5.8/24
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The Usual Suspects
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When Saturday Comes
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Animal Farm
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James and the Giant Peach
6.6/1335
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The Constant Gardener
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2001
The Shipping News
6.377/381
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1975
Thwum
0/0
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The Town
7.218/5126
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2002
Triggermen
4.9/15
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In the Name of the Father
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1997
Amistad
7/1305
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1992
Alien³
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2005
Æon Flux
5.6/2258
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The Age of Stupid
6.4/67
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DragonHeart
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Strange Bedfellows
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Dark Water
5.7/1028
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Brassed Off
7/277
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Split Second
5.9/320
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The Last of the Mohicans
7.4/3136
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Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
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Inception
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Solomon Kane
6/1405
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Closing the Ring
6.1/97
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Distant Voices, Still Lives
6.9/121
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Fords on Water
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Between Strangers
6.3/15
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To Kill a Priest
6/26
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Red Mercury
4/2
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1994
Suite 16
6/12
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Clash of the Titans
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2007
Ghost Son
4.9/18
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Cyrano de Bergerac
5.5/3
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2011
Killing Bono
6.3/104
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Cowboy Up
6.2/21
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1994
Sharpe's Company
6.8/31
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1994
Sharpe's Enemy
6.9/29
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1984
A Private Function
6.3/52
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1998
Among Giants
5/6
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Crimetime
4.1/9
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The Dressmaker
4/3
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Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
0/0
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Waterland
6.3/36
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2004
The Limit
3.7/3
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1993
Anchoress
6/11
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Valley of the Heart's Delight
7/1
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Rat
6.1/25
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2005
Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water'
8/2
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The Divine Ryans
0/0
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Coast to Coast
6/2
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1999
Lost for Words
7/1
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They Never Slept
0/0
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The Grass Arena
8/1
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The Muscle Market
7/2
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The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.
0/0
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Sin Bin
0/0
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1976
The Paradise Run
0/0
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1990
Needle
10/1
Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmarish descent into intravenous heroin use and AIDS and...
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1976
Occupy!
0/0
Bill Nighy, Pete Postlewaite and (briefly) Julie Walters, then all of the Everyman Theatre Company, feature in this potent reportage/dramatisation hyb...
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1978
Doris and Doreen
0/0
A series of pink forms has Doris and Doreen fearing for their cushy jobs.
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1979
Afternoon Off
0/0
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2000
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
6.5/6
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1990
Kingdom Come
0/0
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1990
A Box of Swan
0/0
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A Box of Swan
1990
Hamlet
6.591/407
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1997
Sharpe: The Legend
6/4
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2009
Waving at Trains
0/0
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1991
Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
0/0
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Alice in Wonderland
6.3/346
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1988
Tumbledown
5.9/14
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1990
Treasure Island
6.493/135
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2008
Player
0/0
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2000
When the Sky Falls
5/7
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1999
Wayward Son
4/2
Former fashion photographer Randall Harris debuts with this gritty drama about justice and redemption in rural Georgia during the Great Depression. Je...
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The Making of 'The Lost World'
6.8/6
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2002
Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'
7/2
Documentary that includes interviews with Singer as well as the rest of the cast - mainly Spacey. There is no "plot" or "promotional" elements to this...
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2009
Clough: The Brian Clough Story
0/0
30 years since his first European Cup success, 15 years since his retirement and 5 years after his death; Brian Clough continues to fascinate. The Aft...
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2011
Return to Jurassic Park
6.6/838
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1977
The Duellists
7.3/564
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1997
The Serpent's Kiss
5.4/21
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Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
0/0
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2006
The Omen
5.619/1084
A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror film of the same name from 1976.
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2009
Tattoos: A Scarred History
0/0
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