Pete Postlethwaite
Birthday: 1946-02-07
Place of Birth: Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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.
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond ...
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Romeo + Juliet
In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues...
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Brute
Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but als...
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The Usual Suspects
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lo...
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When Saturday Comes
Jimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working down...
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Animal Farm
Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. How...
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James and the Giant Peach
When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possess...
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The Constant Gardener
Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not c...
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The Shipping News
An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to rec...
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Thwum
Presumed lost after its initial broadcast in 1975, Thwum features a young Pete Postlethwaite in his ...
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The Town
Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance t...
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Triggermen
Two British conmen in Chicago are mistaken for hired hitmen by mobsters wanting to rub out a rival g...
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In the Name of the Father
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along wi...
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Amistad
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads th...
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Alien³
After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a priso...
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Æon Flux
400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except one ...
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The Age of Stupid
Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at ol...
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Strange Bedfellows
Two 'very straight' old timers have to learn how to pass as a loving gay couple after falsely claimi...
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DragonHeart
In an ancient time when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, a knight named Bowen comes...
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Dark Water
Dahlia Williams and her daughter Cecelia move into a rundown apartment on New York's Roosevelt Islan...
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Brassed Off
A Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their Gri...
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Split Second
In a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner an...
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Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
The Constant Gardener featurette....
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The Last of the Mohicans
In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native...
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Inception
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his target...
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Solomon Kane
A nomadic 16th century warrior, condemned to hell for his brutal past, seeks redemption by renouncin...
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Closing the Ring
During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with ...
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Distant Voices, Still Lives
Siblings Maisie and Tony, along with their mother, gather for their sister Eileen's wedding. It is a...
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Fords on Water
Influential, cult classic, UK buddy road movie about two friends, one white and one black, who bond ...
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To Kill a Priest
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it....
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Red Mercury
Three young Muslim men, part of a terror cell, are making a bomb in a London flat, when they get a c...
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Suite 16
After an argument and fight with a wealthy one night stand in a posh hotel, young hustler Chris find...
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Clash of the Titans
Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus is helpless to save his family from Hades, vengeful god o...
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Ghost Son
A widowed newlywed stays on her deceased husband's South African farm, then bears a child who seems ...
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Cyrano de Bergerac
As incomparable in swordplay and wordplay as he is, the gallant soldier, philosopher, and poet Cyran...
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Killing Bono
The true story of Neil and Ivan McCormick, two Irish brothers who attempt to become rock stars but c...
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Cowboy Up
"Cowboy Up" is a celebration of the risk-taking, daredevil personalities of modern rodeo. In the wor...
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Sharpe's Company
Spain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from Sharpe's pa...
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Sharpe's Enemy
Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe's old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have captured t...
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A Private Function
In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince ...
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Among Giants
A manager hires Ray, off the books, to paint all the power towers in a 15-mile stretch of high-tensi...
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Crimetime
The star of a TV crime reenactment show becomes caught up in the mind of the killer he is playing....
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The Dressmaker
In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 1...
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Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
A nightingale sings for a lovesick student. The student is pining for a girl who will only dance wit...
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Waterland
The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment ...
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The Limit
An undercover drug agent (Claire Forlani) has been "in" too long. the line between her job and her a...
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Anchoress
A 14th-century peasant becomes transfixed by a statue of the Virgin Mary, and petitions to be walled...
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Valley of the Heart's Delight
When a fatal kidnapping ignites a firestorm of suspicion and rage in idyllic 1933 San Jose, Californ...
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Rat
After a night of drinking Guiness at the local watering hole, an ordinary, working-class, family man...
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The Divine Ryans
When Draper Doyle’s father drops dead two days after his birthday, Draper realises that he his memor...
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Coast to Coast
Two guys meet, one American, a deserter from the US army, one Brit, and they are drawn together by t...
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Lost for Words
Deric Longden and his wife, Aileen, come to terms with the fact that his mother, Annie, is getting t...
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They Never Slept
When plucky Corporal Pru Merriman reports to her superiors Monk and Bob for driving duty, she finds ...
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The Grass Arena
The Grass Arena is based on the autobiography of John Healy. Raised in an strongly religious family,...
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The Muscle Market
Danny Duggan runs a failing building contractors, and resorts to sub-gangster thuggery to keep the b...
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The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.
Narrated by Connick himself in a candid look at his own life and career, the program features interv...
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Sin Bin
A male nurse in a mental hospital witnesses one patient killing another, but struggles with his loya...
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The Paradise Run
Johnny has joined the army because he likes canoeing, but ends up in a war-torn city and is compromi...
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Needle
Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmaris...
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Occupy!
Bill Nighy, Pete Postlewaite and (briefly) Julie Walters, then all of the Everyman Theatre Company, ...
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Doris and Doreen
A series of pink forms has Doris and Doreen fearing for their cushy jobs....
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Afternoon Off
Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. T...
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Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests....
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Kingdom Come
Keef owns a small seaside café. His comfortable routine with regular customer Wayne is disrupted by ...
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A Box of Swan
A moving and unusual film about a young man who returns to his Liverpool roots for his father's fune...
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Hamlet
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne,...
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Sharpe: The Legend
Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn r...
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Waving at Trains
Some summer days last forever… A poignant short film starring Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlethwai...
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Alice in Wonderland
Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets charact...
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Tumbledown
The film centers on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC, an officer of the Scots Guards during the...
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Treasure Island
Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies...
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Player
The story of a claustrophobic relationship between a single mother and her piano prodigy son. Arrivi...
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When the Sky Falls
Fact-based story about Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton, who invaded the Irish und...
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Wayward Son
Former fashion photographer Randall Harris debuts with this gritty drama about justice and redemptio...
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The Making of 'The Lost World'
Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of director Steven Spielberg's 1997 film "The Lost Wo...
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Clough: The Brian Clough Story
30 years since his first European Cup success, 15 years since his retirement and 5 years after his d...
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Return to Jurassic Park
A multi-part documentary about the making of the Jurassic Park trilogy. Each part walks through the ...
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The Duellists
In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel...
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The Serpent's Kiss
A man sends a young architect to build an extravagant garden to bankrupt the husband of the woman he...
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Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
British TV Movie drama/documentary detailing the birth of Poland's Solidarity union...
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The Omen
A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror f...
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Tattoos: A Scarred History
An exploration of how the once taboo art form has become socially acceptable....
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Number 27
Miss Barwick is 90 years old. She has lived peacefully in the same house all her life - until a youn...
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Thora Hird Tribute
Friends, colleagues and fans, including Julie Walters, Jonathan Ross, Norman Wisdom, Keith Barron an...
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A Crack in the Ice
A comedy about injustice set in St Petersburg in 1839. The Tsar has tightened up security and mounte...
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The Racer
The protagonist spends his time in tunnels and caverns chased by Fascist thugs and having dream-like...
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