ACTOR

Pete Postlethwaite

1946 - 2011

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Peter William Postlethwaite, (7 February 1946 – 2 January 2011) was an English actor best known for his work as a character actor. After minor television appearances including The Professionals, Postlethwaite's first major success arose through the British autobiographical film Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988). He had a breakthrough in Hollywood when he portrayed David in Alien 3 (1992) and his international reputation was further solidified when he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for In the Name of the Father. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pete Postlethwaite has received more than 5,087,157 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Pete Postlethwaite is the 711th most popular actor (up from 733rd in 2019), the 841st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 901st in 2019) and the 107th most popular British Actor.

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  • 48

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  • 4.50

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Pete Postlethwaite ranks 711 out of 13,578. Before him are Guy Williams, Danny Aiello, Pedro Armendáriz, Lois Maxwell, Robert Taylor, and Setsuko Hara. After him are Alyson Hannigan, Imelda Staunton, Lale Andersen, Owen Wilson, Jean-Claude Brialy, and Rex Harrison.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Pete Postlethwaite ranks 104. Before him are Ajda Pekkan, Jean Todt, Demetris Christofias, Robert Reich, Claudia Goldin, and Kim Kyong-hui. After him are Aziz Sancar, Deepak Chopra, Edita Gruberová, Marisa Paredes, Georges J. F. Köhler, and Elías Figueroa. Among people deceased in 2011, Pete Postlethwaite ranks 53. Before him are Richard Winters, Leonora Carrington, Aristides Pereira, Diana Wynne Jones, Ante Marković, and Alberto Granado. After him are Linda Christian, Lucian Freud, Maria Schneider, Valentin Ivanov, William Lipscomb, and Madame Nhu.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Pete Postlethwaite ranks 841 out of 8,785. Before him are Æthelbald, King of Wessex (831), William Bateson (1861), John William Polidori (1795), Alan Parsons (1948), Bernard Cornwell (1944), and Anthony James Leggett (1938). After him are Imelda Staunton (1956), James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (1534), Charlotte, Princess Royal (1766), Prince John of the United Kingdom (1905), Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony (1156), and Charles George Gordon (1833).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Pete Postlethwaite ranks 107. Before him are Tom Hardy (1977), Tom Conti (1941), Tim Roth (1961), Kim Cattrall (1956), Peter Cushing (1913), and Derek Jacobi (1938). After him are Imelda Staunton (1956), Rex Harrison (1908), Michael York (1942), Ray Milland (1907), Andy Serkis (1964), and Boris Karloff (1887).

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Television and Movie Roles

Inception
Maurice Fischer
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.
Jul 15o 20108.369 / 10
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Roland Tembo
Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that he has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ladylove and a wildlife videographer join an expedition to document the lethal lizards' natural behavior in this action-packed thriller.
May 23o 19976.54 / 10
The Usual Suspects
Kobayashi
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.
Jul 19o 19958.182 / 10