
Pete Postlethwaite
Known for: Acting
Born: February 7, 1946
Died: January 2, 2011
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…
Known for

The Age of Stupid
2009

Red Mercury
2005

Suite 16
1994

Among Giants
1998

Valley of the Heart's Delight
2006

The Muscle Market
1981

Sin Bin
1994
Kingdom Come
1990
Waving at Trains
2009
Player
2008

The Racer
1975

Thwum
1975

In the Name of the Father
1993

Solomon Kane
2009

Distant Voices, Still Lives
1988

Crimetime
1996

Lost for Words
1999

The Grass Arena
1992

Wayward Son
1999

Clough: The Brian Clough Story
2009

The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997

Strange Bedfellows
2004

Brassed Off
1996

Ghost Son
2007

Killing Bono
2011

The Dressmaker
1988

The Divine Ryans
1999

Needle
1990

Doris and Doreen
1978
A Box of Swan
1990

When the Sky Falls
2000

When Saturday Comes
1996

James and the Giant Peach
1996

Between Strangers
2002
Cyrano de Bergerac
1985

The Limit
2004

Anchoress
1993

Animal Farm
1999

The Constant Gardener
2005

The Shipping News
2001

DragonHeart
1996

Dark Water
2005

Sharpe's Company
1994

Sharpe's Enemy
1994

They Never Slept
1991

The Serpent's Kiss
1997

The Omen
2006

Brute
1997

Triggermen
2002

Æon Flux
2005

Split Second
1992

Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
2006

Closing the Ring
2007

To Kill a Priest
1988

Rat
2000
Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water'
2005

Coast to Coast
1987

The Usual Suspects
1995

The Town
2010

Amistad
1997

Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
2003

Waterland
1992

Afternoon Off
1979

Clash of the Titans
2010

Occupy!
1976

The Paradise Run
1976

Treasure Island
1990

The Making of 'The Lost World'
1997

Romeo + Juliet
1996

Inception
2010

Cowboy Up
2002

Return to Jurassic Park
2011

A Midsummer Night's Dream
1992

A Private Function
1984

The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.
1999

Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
1981

Fords on Water
1983

Tumbledown
1988

Alien³
1992

The Last of the Mohicans
1992

Alice in Wonderland
1999

Number 27
1988

Hamlet
1990

Thora Hird Tribute
2003

A Crack in the Ice
1985

Tattoos: A Scarred History
2009

The Duellists
1977

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000

Sharpe: The Legend
1997

Sharpe
1993

Going Straight
1978

Minder
1979

Between the Lines
1992

Richard & Judy
2001

Last of the Summer Wine
1973

Lovejoy
1986

Criminal Justice
2008

The Oscars
1953
Tales of Sherwood Forest
1989

The Sins
2000

Butterfly Collectors
1999

Mitch
1984

Casualty
1986

Pie in the Sky
1994

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992

Screen Two
1985
El C.I.D.
1990

Zorro
1990

Play for Today
1970

The BAFTA Awards
1949

Martin Chuzzlewit
1994

Plays for Britain
1976

ScreenPlay
1986
Second City Firsts
1973