Pete Postlethwaite
Acting
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.
Born: February 7, 1946
Place of Birth: Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
Known For
Needle
Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmarish descent into intravenous heroin use and AIDS and a police and political leadership incapable of the imagination or courage necessary to respond to the drug problem.
The BAFTA Awards
BAFTA presents awards for film, television and games, including children's entertainment, at a number of annual ceremonies across the UK and in Los Angeles, USA.
Inception
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
Pie in the Sky
Pie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and Maggie Steed, created by Andrew Payne and first broadcast in five series on BBC1 between 13 March 1994 and 17 August 1997 as well as being syndicated on other channels in other countries, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The series departs slightly from other police dramas in that the protagonist, Henry Crabbe, while still being an on-duty policeman, is also the head chef of the title restaurant set in the fictional town of Middleton and county of Westershire.
The Usual Suspects
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.
The Grass Arena
The Grass Arena is based on the autobiography of John Healy. Raised in an strongly religious family, with an abusive father, John soon learns that he has to defend himself. Growing into adulthood he takes up boxing, but soon falls victim to alcoholism. His boxing career over, John takes to the Grass Arena (the park) where he lives with other alcoholics. Prison time introduces him to a new and unexpected path.
Sharpe
Sharpe is a British series of television dramas starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars. Sharpe is the hero of a number of novels by Bernard Cornwell; most, though not all, of the episodes are based on the books. Produced by Celtic Films and Picture Palace Films for the ITV network, the series was shot mainly in Turkey and the Crimea, although some filming was also done in England, Spain and Portugal. The series originally ran from 1993 to 1997. In 2004, as part of ITV's new set of drama, ITV announced that it intended to produce new episodes of Sharpe, in co-production with BBC America, loosely based on his time in India, with Sean Bean continuing his role as Sharpe. Sharpe's Challenge is a two-part adventure; part one premiered on ITV on 23 April 2006, with part two being shown the following night. With more gore than earlier episodes, the show was broadcast by BBC America in September 2006.
Martin Chuzzlewit
When old Martin Chuzzlewit disinherits his grandson, he falls prey to a host of rapacious relatives.
In the Name of the Father
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to prove his innocence.
Going Straight
Going Straight is a BBC sitcom which was a direct spin-off from Porridge, starring Ronnie Barker as Norman Stanley Fletcher, newly released from the fictional Slade Prison where the earlier series had been set. It sees Fletcher trying to become an honest member of society, having vowed to stay away from crime on his release. The title refers to his attempt, 'straight' being a slang term meaning being honest, in contrast to 'bent', i.e., dishonest. Also re-appearing was Richard Beckinsale as Lennie Godber, who was Fletcher's naïve young cellmate and was now in a relationship with his daughter Ingrid. Her brother Raymond was played by a teenage Nicholas Lyndhurst. Only one series, of six episodes, was made in 1978. It attracted an audience of over 15 million viewers and won a BAFTA award in March 1979, but hopes of a further series had already been dashed by Beckinsale's premature death earlier in the same month.
Filmography
as Karl
as Self
as Fergus "Fergie" Colm
as Maurice Fischer
as Spyros
as William Crowthorn
as The Archivist
as Self
as Narrator
as Hooch
as Quinlan
as Doc
as Father Brennan
as Albion Munson
as Keeper
as Lorbeer
as Veeck
as Gold Commander
as Gale
as Russell McKenzie (taxman)
as Arthur (voice)
as Reid Braxton
as John
as Ben Cutler
as Tert Card
as Self
as Various Characters
as Len Green
as Hubert Flynn
as Martin Shaughnessy
as Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice)
as Ben Alexander
as DI John McKeown
as Carpenter
as Deric Longden
as Uncle Reg Ryan
as Ray
as Holabird
as Sincai
as Hakeswill
as Roland Tembo
as Thomas Smith
as Danny
as Father Laurence
as Sidney
as Gilbert
as The Magic Man
as Ken Jackson
as Kobayashi
as Glover
as Tigg Montague
as Obadiah Hakeswill
as Obadiah Hakeswill
as Mitch
as Kevin Tasker
as Giuseppe Conlon
as William Carpenter
as Obadiah Hakeswill
as Quince (voice)
as Ch. Supt. Jameson
as Captain Beams
as Henry Crick
as David
as Paulsen
as The Dipper
as Panter
as Player King
as Paula's Father
as George Merry
as Bandit
as Jack
as Father
as Becket
as Josef
as Major (Rehabilitation Centre)
as Kecks McGuinness
as Ralph Peters
as Hank
as Terence Sullivan
as Painter
as Panter
as Kecks McGuinness
as The Dipper
as Mitch
as Nuttol
as Jack Frost
as Winston's Boss
as Ireneusz Lesniak
as Danny Duggan
as Jack Wragg
as Logie
as Attendant in Art Gallery
as Mr. Lomax
as Thomas Clifford Crowther
as Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard
as Soldier
as Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
as Duffy
as Ecco
as Man in Cafe
as Danny Duggan
as Self
as Self