Pete Postlethwaite

Pete Postlethwaite

Birthday: 1946-02-07

Deathday: 2011-01-02

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

imdb_id: nm0000592

Biography:

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.

Played in movies:

Needle

Score: 10.0

Inception

Score: 8.4

The Usual Suspects

Score: 8.2

The Grass Arena

Score: 8.0

Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water'

Score: 8.0

In the Name of the Father

Score: 7.9

The Last of the Mohicans

Score: 7.4

The Duellists

Score: 7.3

The Town

Score: 7.2

The Constant Gardener

Score: 7.0

Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'

Score: 7.0

The Muscle Market

Score: 7.0

Lost for Words

Score: 7.0

Brassed Off

Score: 7.0

Amistad

Score: 7.0

Sharpe's Enemy

Score: 7.0

The Making of 'The Lost World'

Score: 6.8

Distant Voices, Still Lives

Score: 6.8

Romeo + Juliet

Score: 6.8

Sharpe's Company

Score: 6.7

Hamlet

Score: 6.6

Treasure Island

Score: 6.6

Return to Jurassic Park

Score: 6.6

James and the Giant Peach

Score: 6.6

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Score: 6.6

DragonHeart

Score: 6.5

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

Score: 6.5

The Age of Stupid

Score: 6.5

The Shipping News

Score: 6.4

Waterland

Score: 6.4

Alien³

Score: 6.4

A Private Function

Score: 6.4

Killing Bono

Score: 6.3

Alice in Wonderland

Score: 6.2

Closing the Ring

Score: 6.1

Rat

Score: 6.1

Sharpe: The Legend

Score: 6.0

Coast to Coast

Score: 6.0

Valley of the Heart's Delight

Score: 6.0

Anchoress

Score: 6.0

Suite 16

Score: 6.0

Solomon Kane

Score: 6.0

Between Strangers

Score: 5.9

Cowboy Up

Score: 5.9

To Kill a Priest

Score: 5.9

Clash of the Titans

Score: 5.9

Split Second

Score: 5.9

Strange Bedfellows

Score: 5.8

Bandyta

Score: 5.8

When Saturday Comes

Score: 5.7

Dark Water

Score: 5.7

Animal Farm

Score: 5.7

The Omen

Score: 5.6

Æon Flux

Score: 5.6

Tumbledown

Score: 5.6

Cyrano de Bergerac

Score: 5.5

The Serpent's Kiss

Score: 5.4

When the Sky Falls

Score: 5.0

Among Giants

Score: 5.0

Triggermen

Score: 4.6

Ghost Son

Score: 4.5

The Limit

Score: 4.0

The Dressmaker

Score: 4.0

Crimetime

Score: 4.0

Red Mercury

Score: 4.0

Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener

Score: 4.0

Wayward Son

Score: 3.0

Criminal Justice

Score: 0.0

Thora Hird Tribute

Score: 0.0

Number 27

Score: 0.0

Tattoos: A Scarred History

Score: 0.0

Strike: The Birth of Solidarity

Score: 0.0

Clough: The Brian Clough Story

Score: 0.0

Player

Score: 0.0

Mel Gibson Goes Back to School

Score: 0.0

Waving at Trains

Score: 0.0

A Box of Swan

Score: 0.0

Kingdom Come

Score: 0.0

Afternoon Off

Score: 0.0

Doris and Doreen

Score: 0.0

Occupy!

Score: 0.0

The Paradise Run

Score: 0.0

Sin Bin

Score: 0.0

The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.

Score: 0.0

They Never Slept

Score: 0.0

The Divine Ryans

Score: 0.0

Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose

Score: 0.0

Fords on Water

Score: 0.0

Thwum

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The BAFTA Awards

Score: 10.0

Pie in the Sky

Score: 8.3

Sharpe

Score: 8.0

Martin Chuzzlewit

Score: 8.0

Going Straight

Score: 7.7

Criminal Justice

Score: 7.6

Lovejoy

Score: 7.4

Zorro

Score: 7.1

Last of the Summer Wine

Score: 7.1

The Oscars

Score: 7.0

Screen Two

Score: 6.8

Screen Two

Score: 6.8

Screen Two

Score: 6.8

Screen Two

Score: 6.8

Minder

Score: 6.8

Minder

Score: 6.8

Play for Today

Score: 6.3

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

Score: 6.3

Casualty

Score: 6.1

Casualty

Score: 6.1

Between the Lines

Score: 5.6

Mitch

Score: 5.0

The One Show

Score: 4.6

Richard & Judy

Score: 2.9

Sins

Score: 0.5

El C.I.D.

Score: 0.0

Butterfly Collectors

Score: 0.0

Tales of Sherwood Forest

Score: 0.0