Date of birth: 1946-02-07
Place of birth: Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
Known for: Acting
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
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.
1997-05-23
Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond
1996-11-01
In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues
1997-11-07
Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but als
1995-07-19
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lo
1996-03-01
Jimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working down
1999-10-03
Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. How
1996-04-12
When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possess
2005-08-31
Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not c
2001-12-18
An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to rec
1975-11-22
Presumed lost after its initial broadcast in 1975, Thwum features a young Pete Postlethwaite in his
2010-09-15
Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance t
2002-07-26
Two British conmen in Chicago are mistaken for hired hitmen by mobsters wanting to rub out a rival g
1993-12-12
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along wi
1997-12-10
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads th
1992-05-22
After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a priso
2005-11-30
400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except one
2009-09-21
Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at ol
2004-04-22
Two 'very straight' old timers have to learn how to pass as a loving gay couple after falsely claimi
1996-05-31
In an ancient time when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, a knight named Bowen comes
2005-07-08
Dahlia Williams and her daughter Cecelia move into a rundown apartment on New York's Roosevelt Islan
1996-11-01
A Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their Gri
1992-05-01
In a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner an
2006-01-10
The Constant Gardener featurette.
1992-08-26
In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native
2010-07-15
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his target
2009-12-23
A nomadic 16th century warrior, condemned to hell for his brutal past, seeks redemption by renouncin
2007-09-14
During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with
1988-11-16
Siblings Maisie and Tony, along with their mother, gather for their sister Eileen's wedding. It is a
1983-01-01
Influential, cult classic, UK buddy road movie about two friends, one white and one black, who bond
2002-08-30
Three women confront their pasts which changes their futures.
1988-09-07
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.
2005-05-13
Three young Muslim men, part of a terror cell, are making a bomb in a London flat, when they get a c
1994-11-24
After an argument and fight with a wealthy one night stand in a posh hotel, young hustler Chris find
2010-03-26
Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus is helpless to save his family from Hades, vengeful god o
2007-04-05
A widowed newlywed stays on her deceased husband's South African farm, then bears a child who seems
1985-07-26
As incomparable in swordplay and wordplay as he is, the gallant soldier, philosopher, and poet Cyran
2011-04-01
The true story of Neil and Ivan McCormick, two Irish brothers who attempt to become rock stars but c
2002-09-03
"Cowboy Up" is a celebration of the risk-taking, daredevil personalities of modern rodeo. In the wor
1994-05-25
Spain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from Sharpe's pa
1994-06-01
Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe's old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have captured t
1984-11-09
In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince
1998-06-24
A manager hires Ray, off the books, to paint all the power towers in a 15-mile stretch of high-tensi
1996-08-01
The star of a TV crime reenactment show becomes caught up in the mind of the killer he is playing.
1988-12-16
In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 1
2003-12-26
A nightingale sings for a lovesick student. The student is pining for a girl who will only dance wit
1992-08-21
The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment
2004-12-28
An undercover drug agent (Claire Forlani) has been "in" too long. the line between her job and her a
1993-09-10
A 16th-century peasant becomes transfixed by a statue of the Virgin Mary, and petitions to be walled
2006-04-24
When a fatal kidnapping ignites a firestorm of suspicion and rage in idyllic 1933 San Jose, Californ
2000-10-06
After a night of drinking Guiness at the local watering hole, an ordinary, working-class, family man
2005-12-26
1999-01-01
When Draper Doyle’s father drops dead two days after his birthday, Draper realises that he his memor
1987-01-04
Two guys meet, one American, a deserter from the US army, one Brit, and they are drawn together by t
1999-01-03
Deric Longden and his wife, Aileen, come to terms with the fact that his mother, Annie, is getting t
1991-01-20
When plucky Corporal Pru Merriman reports to her superiors Monk and Bob for driving duty, she finds
1992-01-19
The Grass Arena is based on the autobiography of John Healy. Raised in an strongly religious family,
1981-01-13
Danny Duggan runs a failing building contractors, and resorts to sub-gangster thuggery to keep the b
1999-01-01
Narrated by Connick himself in a candid look at his own life and career, the program features interv
1994-05-18
A male nurse in a mental hospital witnesses one patient killing another, but struggles with his loya
1976-04-05
Johnny has joined the army because he likes canoeing, but ends up in a war-torn city and is compromi
1990-09-12
Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmaris
1976-01-01
Bill Nighy, Pete Postlewaite and (briefly) Julie Walters, then all of the Everyman Theatre Company,
1978-12-16
A series of pink forms has Doris and Doreen fearing for their cushy jobs.
1979-02-03
Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. T
2000-12-25
The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.
1990-10-02
Keef owns a small seaside café. His comfortable routine with regular customer Wayne is disrupted by
1990-10-09
A moving and unusual film about a young man who returns to his Liverpool roots for his father's fune
1990-12-19
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne,
1997-10-13
Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn r
2009-01-01
Some summer days last forever… A poignant short film starring Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlethwai
1999-02-28
Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets charact
1988-05-29
The film centers on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC, an officer of the Scots Guards during the
1990-01-22
Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies
2008-10-03
The story of a claustrophobic relationship between a single mother and her piano prodigy son. Arrivi
2000-06-26
Fact-based story about Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton, who invaded the Irish und
1999-09-20
Former fashion photographer Randall Harris debuts with this gritty drama about justice and redemptio
1997-05-08
Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of director Steven Spielberg's 1997 film "The Lost Wo
2009-03-25
30 years since his first European Cup success, 15 years since his retirement and 5 years after his d
2011-02-05
A multi-part documentary about the making of the Jurassic Park trilogy. Each part walks through the
1977-08-31
In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel
1997-05-14
A man sends a young architect to build an extravagant garden to bankrupt the husband of the woman he
1981-12-18
British TV Movie drama/documentary detailing the birth of Poland's Solidarity union
2006-06-06
A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror f
2009-06-21
An exploration of how the once taboo art form has become socially acceptable.
1988-10-23
Miss Barwick is 90 years old. She has lived peacefully in the same house all her life - until a youn
2003-03-30
Friends, colleagues and fans, including Julie Walters, Jonathan Ross, Norman Wisdom, Keith Barron an
1985-08-06
A comedy about injustice set in St Petersburg in 1839. The Tsar has tightened up security and mounte