Pete Postlethwaite
- Interprétation
- 7 février 1946 · Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
- 2 janvier 2011
Biographie
Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE (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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Filmographie
- Killing Bono · Karl
- Return to Jurassic Park · En personne
- The Town · Fergus "Fergie" Colm
- Inception · Maurice Fischer
- Le Choc des Titans · Spyros
- Solomon Kane · William Crowthorn
- L'âge de la stupidité · The Archivist
- Tattoos: A Scarred History · En personne
- Clough: The Brian Clough Story · Narrator
- Waving at Trains · Douglas Warren
- Player · Colin
- Criminal Justice · Hooch
- War And Destiny · Quinlan
- Ghost Son · Doc
- 666, La Malédiction · Father Brennan
- Valley of the Heart's Delight · Albion Munson
- Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener · En personne
- Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water' · En personne
- Æon Flux · Keeper
- The Constant Gardener · Lorbeer
- Dark Water · Veeck
- Red Mercury · Gold Commander
- The Limit · Gale
- Tout ou rien · Russell McKenzie (taxman)
- Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose · Arthur (Voix)
- Thora Hird Tribute · Deric Longden (archive footage, uncredited)
- Cowboy Up · Reid Braxton
- Cœurs inconnus · John
- Triggermen, petites arnaques entre amis · Ben Cutler
- Terre neuve · Tert Card
- Richard & Judy · En personne
- Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings · Various Characters
- The Sins · Len Green
- Rat · Hubert Flynn
- When the Sky Falls · Martin Shaughnessy
- La Ferme des Animaux · Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones
- Wayward Son · Ben Alexander
- Butterfly Collectors · DI John McKeown
- Alice au Pays des Merveilles · Carpenter
- Lost for Words · Deric Longden
- The Divine Ryans · Uncle Reg Ryan
- The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr. · En personne
- Les Géants · Ray
- Amistad · Holabird
- Bandyta · Sincai
- Sharpe: The Legend · Hakeswill
- Le monde perdu : Jurassic Park · Roland Tembo
- Le Baiser du serpent · Thomas Smith
- The Making of 'The Lost World' · En personne
- Roméo + Juliette · Father Laurence
- Les virtuoses · Danny
- Crime Time · Sidney
- Cœur de dragon · Gilbert
- James et la Pêche géante · The Magic Man
- When Saturday Comes · Ken Jackson
- TFI Friday
- Usual Suspects · Kobayashi
- Suite 16 · Glover
- Martin Chuzzlewit · Montague Tigg
- Sharpe's Enemy · Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill
- Sharpe's Company · Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill
- Sin Bin · Mitch
- Pie in the Sky · Kevin Tasker
- Au nom du père · Giuseppe Conlon
- Anchoress · William Carpenter
- Sharpe · Obadiah Hakeswill
- Shakespeare: The Animated Tales · Quince (Voix)
- Between the Lines · Ch. Supt. Jameson
- Le Dernier des Mohicans · Captain Beams
- Waterland · Henry Crick
- Alien³ · David
- Killer Instinct · Paulsen
- A Midsummer Night's Dream · Quince (Voix)
- The Grass Arena · The Dipper
- They Never Slept · Panter
- Hamlet · Player King
- A Box of Swan · Tony
- Kingdom Come · Keef
- Needle · Paula's Father
- Debut on Two · Keef, Tony