Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
86
Gender
Male
Birthday
February 07, 1946 ( 65 years old )
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
Pete Postlethwaite
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.
Known For
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997-05-23Romeo + Juliet
1996-11-01Bandyta
1997-11-07The Usual Suspects
1995-07-19When Saturday Comes
1996-03-01The Omen
2006-06-06Animal Farm
1999-10-03James and the Giant Peach
1996-04-12The Constant Gardener
2005-08-31The Shipping News
2001-12-18