Pete Postlethwaite
Known For
Acting
Born
1946-02-07 in Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
Died
2011-01-02
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.
Most Known For
Inception
as Maurice Fischer
Minder
as Jack Wragg
Minder
as Logie
Casualty
as Ralph Peters
Casualty
as Hank
Play for Today
as Danny Duggan
The Oscars
as Self
Richard & Judy
as Self
The Usual Suspects
as Kobayashi
Last of the Summer Wine
as Man in Cafe
The BAFTA Awards
as Self
The Town
as Fergus "Fergie" Colm
Zorro
as Bandit
The Last of the Mohicans
as Captain Beams
Romeo + Juliet
as Father Laurence
Screen Two
as Panter
Screen Two
as Kecks McGuinness
Screen Two
as The Dipper
Screen Two
as Mitch
Pie in the Sky
as Kevin Tasker