Pete Postlethwaite
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- AnimationJames and the Giant Peach
- HorrorThe Omen
- ActionDragonHeart
- DramaThe Constant Gardener
- DramaThe Shipping News
- DramaAmistad
- CrimeThe Town
- DramaRomeo + Juliet
- DocumentaryThe Age of Stupid
- RomanceAmong Giants
- DramaValley of the Heart's Delight
- ActionSolomon Kane
- DramaIn the Name of the Father
- DramaDistant Voices, Still Lives
- HorrorCrimetime
- DramaClosing the Ring
- ComedyStrange Bedfellows
- ActionThe Lost World: Jurassic Park
- DramaThe Dressmaker
- DramaBetween Strangers
- CrimeGone Dark / The Limit
- DramaDark Water
- ComedyAnimal Farm
- DramaThe Serpent's Kiss
- CrimeThe Usual Suspects
- ActionÆon Flux
- ActionSplit Second
- CrimeTriggermen
- DramaWaterland
- ActionClash of the Titans
- ActionTreasure Island
- ActionInception
- DramaCowboy Up
- ComedyA Private Function
- ActionThe Last of the Mohicans
- AdventureAlice in Wonderland
- DramaHamlet
- DramaThe Duellists
- DramaThe Duellists
- ComedyBrassed Off
- DramaThe Sins
- DramaSuite 16
- ComedyTales of Sherwood Forest
- CrimeRed Mercury
- DramaLost for Words
- DramaThe Muscle Market
- DramaThe Grass Arena
- DramaPlayer
- DramaWayward Son
- Science FictionThwum
- DramaWaving at Trains
- TV MovieSin Bin
- ComedyKilling Bono
- DramaGhost Son
- DocumentaryClough: The Brian Clough Story
- CrimeWhen the Sky Falls
- DramaNeedle
- ComedyThe Divine Ryans
- ActionSharpe's Enemy
- DramaWhen Saturday Comes
- DramaDoris and Doreen
- DramaAnchoress
- DramaCyrano de Bergerac
- ActionSharpe's Company
- DramaBandyta
- DramaTo Kill a Priest
- ComedyRat
- DramaCoast to Coast
- TV MovieThey Never Slept
- DocumentaryAnatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
- DocumentaryBeneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water'
- DramaMartin Chuzzlewit
- DocumentaryOccupy!
- TV MovieAfternoon Off
- DocumentaryThe Making of 'The Lost World'
- DramaThe Paradise Run
- DocumentaryReturn to Jurassic Park
- DocumentaryThe Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.
- movieA Midsummer Night's Dream
- DramaTumbledown
- ComedyFords on Water
- DocumentaryRound Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'
- ComedyVictoria Wood with All the Trimmings
- CrimeButterfly Collectors
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Pete Postlethwaite
Actor
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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- Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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