Pete Postlethwaite

ACTOR, PRODUCER

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Classically-trained actor Pete Postlethwaite was born Peter William Postlethwaite in 1946 and was a distinguished character actor on stage, TV and film.Growing up the youngest of four siblings in a Catholic family in Warrington, Lancashire (near Liverpool) in middle-class surroundings to working-class parents, he attended St Mary's University (London). However, while completing his studies, he developed an interest in theatre, to the chagrin of his father, who wanted his children to find secure positions in life.A drama teacher initially at a Catholic girls convent school, he decided to follow his acting instincts full-time and gradually built up an impressive array of classical stage credits via repertory, including the Bristol Old Vic Drama School, and in stints with Liverpool Everyman, Manchester Royal Exchange and the Royal Shakespeare Company. By the 1980s he was ready to branch out into film and TV, giving a startling performance as a wife abuser in the Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988).By 1993 he had crossed over into Hollywood parts and earned his first Oscar nomination for his superb role as Daniel Day-Lewis' father in In the Name of the Father (1993). Other quality roles came his way with Die üblichen Verdächtigen (1995), Brassed Off (1996), and Amistad - Das Sklavenschiff (1997). He did fine work on television in Sharpe's Company (1994), Lost for Words (1999), and The Sins (2000). Postlethwaite worked equally both in the UK and abroad, and avoided the public limelight for the most part, except for occasional displays of political activism.Postlethwaite lived quietly out of the spotlight in England and continued on in films with roles in Schiffsmeldungen (2001), The Limit (2004), Dark Water (2005), The Omen (2006), Ghost Son (2007) and Solomon Kane (2009). In 2010, he was seen in Clash of the Titans (2010), Inception (2010) and The Town (2010).Postlewaite died on January 2, 2011, at age 64, of pancreatic cancer. He was surrounded by his wife and son, and by his daughter from a prior relationship. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh / Robert Sieger

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Streaming Availability

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Releases by Year

Pete Postlethwaite on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1977 to 2009. See the full graphs of the number of Pete Postlethwaite movies released per year from 1996 till 2009.

Top Genres

Pete Postlethwaite works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Comedy Genre flixes. 42% of Pete Postlethwaite movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Pete Postlethwaite worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Pete Postlethwaite has worked on is 6.4.

6.4 / 10

Pete Postlethwaite's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

A man's coerced confession to an I.R.A. bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. An English lawyer fights to free them.

8.1/10133 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

The lives of an English working-class family are told out of order in a free-associative manner. The first part, "Distant Voices", focuses on the father's role in the family. The second part, "Still Lives", focuses on his children.

7.4/1084 min

Available in 12 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama,Music
Brassed Off (1996)

The coal mine in a northern English village may be closing, which would also mean the end of the miners' brass band.

7.2/10108 min

Available in 4 platform(s).

Documentary,History,News
The Age of Stupid (2009)

A future archivist looks at old footage from the year 2008 to understand why humankind failed to address climate change.

7/1092 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

Adventure,Animation,Family
James and the Giant Peach (1996)

An orphan, who lives with his two cruel aunts, befriends anthropomorphic bugs who live inside a giant peach, and they embark on a journey to New York City.

6.7/1079 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

A research team is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B island to study the dinosaurs there, while an InGen team approaches with another agenda.

6.5/10129 min

Available in 12 platform(s).

Action,Adventure,Fantasy
DragonHeart (1996)

The last dragon and a disillusioned dragonslaying Knight must cooperate to stop an evil King, who was given partial immortality.

6.4/10103 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their seventeen-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.

6.3/1092 min

Available in 3 platform(s).