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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
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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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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1946-02-07
- event Death Date 2011-01-02
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 13.9
- info Birth Place Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Pete Postlethwaite
6.6
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997-05-23
6.8
Romeo + Juliet
1996-11-01
5.8
Bandyta
1997-11-07
8.2
The Usual Suspects
1995-07-19
5.7
When Saturday Comes
1996-03-01
5.7
The Omen
2006-06-06
5.7
Animal Farm
1999-10-03
6.6
James and the Giant Peach
1996-04-12
7
The Constant Gardener
2005-08-31
6.4
The Shipping News
2001-12-18
0
Thwum
1975-11-22
7.2
The Town
2010-09-15
4.8
Triggermen
2002-07-26
8
In the Name of the Father
1993-12-12
7.1
Amistad
1997-12-10
6.4
Alien³
1992-05-22
5.7
Æon Flux
2005-11-30
6.4
The Age of Stupid
2009-09-21
6.6
DragonHeart
1996-05-31
5.8
Strange Bedfellows
2004-04-22
5.7
Dark Water
2005-07-08
7.1
Brassed Off
1996-11-01
5.9
Split Second
1992-05-01
7.4
The Last of the Mohicans
1992-08-26
4
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
2006-01-10
8.4
Inception
2010-07-15
6
Solomon Kane
2009-09-16
6.2
Closing the Ring
2007-09-14
6.9
Distant Voices, Still Lives
1988-11-16
0
Fords on Water
1983-01-01
6.3
Between Strangers
2002-08-30
6
To Kill a Priest
1988-09-07
4
Red Mercury
2005-05-13
6
Suite 16
1994-11-24
6
Clash of the Titans
2010-03-26
4.9
Ghost Son
2007-04-05
5.5
Cyrano de Bergerac
1985-07-26
6.3
Killing Bono
2011-04-01
6.2
Cowboy Up
2002-09-03
6.9
Sharpe's Company
1994-05-25
7
Sharpe's Enemy
1994-06-01
6.3
A Private Function
1984-11-09
5
Among Giants
1998-06-24
4.1
Crimetime
1996-08-01
4
The Dressmaker
1988-12-16
0
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
2003-12-26
6.1
Waterland
1992-08-21
3.7
The Limit
2004-12-28
5.7
Anchoress
1993-09-10
7
Valley of the Heart's Delight
2006-04-24
6.3
Rat
2001-04-01
8
Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water'
2005-12-26
0
The Divine Ryans
1999-01-01
6
Coast to Coast
1987-01-04
0
Lost for Words
1999-01-03
0
They Never Slept
1991-01-20
8
The Grass Arena
1992-01-19
7
The Muscle Market
1981-01-13
0
The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.
1999-01-01
0
Sin Bin
1994-05-18
0
The Paradise Run
1976-04-05
10
Needle
1990-09-12
0
Occupy!
1976-01-01
0
Doris and Doreen
1978-12-16
0
Afternoon Off
1979-02-03
7
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000-12-25
0
Kingdom Come
1990-10-02
0
A Box of Swan
1990-10-09
6.6
Hamlet
1990-12-19
6
Sharpe: The Legend
1997-10-13
0
Waving at Trains
2009-01-01
0
Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
1991-01-01
6.3
Alice in Wonderland
1999-02-28
5.9
Tumbledown
1988-05-29
6.5
Treasure Island
1990-01-22
0
Player
2008-10-03
5
When the Sky Falls
2000-06-26
4
Wayward Son
1999-09-20
6.9
The Making of 'The Lost World'
1997-05-08
7
Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'
2002-04-02
0
Clough: The Brian Clough Story
2009-03-25
6.7
Return to Jurassic Park
2011-02-05
7.3
The Duellists
1977-08-31
5.4
The Serpent's Kiss
1997-05-14
7.8
Sharpe
1993-05-05
4.7
The One Show
2006-08-14
7.7
Going Straight
1978-02-24
6.7
Minder
1979-10-29
5.6
Between the Lines
1992-09-04
3.1
Richard & Judy
2001-11-26
7.2
Last of the Summer Wine
1973-01-04
7.4
Lovejoy
1986-01-10
7.5
Criminal Justice
2008-06-30
7
The Oscars
1953-03-19
0
Tales of Sherwood Forest
1989-06-11
0.5
Sins
2000-10-24
0
Butterfly Collectors
1999-04-19
5
Mitch
1984-08-31
6
Casualty
1986-09-06
6
Casualty
1986-09-06
6.7
Minder
1979-10-29
8.4
Pie in the Sky
1994-03-13
7.5
Martin Chuzzlewit
1994-11-07
6.9
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992-11-09
6.8
Screen Two
1985-01-06