Pete Postlethwaite
1946-02-07 ( 79 years old ) in Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK

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.

Movies

Killing Bono 2011-04-01
The Town 2010-09-15
Inception 2010-07-15
Solomon Kane 2009-09-16
Player 2008-10-03
Ghost Son 2007-04-05
The Omen 2006-06-06
Æon Flux 2005-11-30
Dark Water 2005-07-08
Red Mercury 2005-05-13
The Limit 2004-12-28
Cowboy Up 2002-09-03
Triggermen 2002-07-26
Rat 2001-04-01
Animal Farm 1999-10-03
Wayward Son 1999-09-20
Lost for Words 1999-01-03
Among Giants 1998-06-24
Amistad 1997-12-10
Bandyta 1997-11-07
Romeo + Juliet 1996-11-01
Brassed Off 1996-11-01
Crimetime 1996-08-01
DragonHeart 1996-05-31
Suite 16 1994-11-24
Sharpe's Enemy 1994-06-01
Sin Bin 1994-05-18
Anchoress 1993-09-10
Waterland 1992-08-21
Alien³ 1992-05-22
Split Second 1992-05-01
Hamlet 1990-12-19
A Box of Swan 1990-10-09
Kingdom Come 1990-10-02
Needle 1990-09-12
The Dressmaker 1988-12-16
Tumbledown 1988-05-29
Coast to Coast 1987-01-04
Fords on Water 1983-01-01
Afternoon Off 1979-02-03
The Duellists 1977-08-31
Occupy! 1976-01-01
Thwum 1975-11-22