Pete Postlethwaite

Birth Name: Peter William Postlethwaite

Date of Birth: 7 February, 1946

Place of Birth: Warrington, Lancashire, England, U.K.

Date of Death: 2 January, 2011

Place of Death: Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, U.K.

Ethnicity: English, Irish

Pete Postlethwaite was an English actor. His roles included the films A Private Function, King David (1985), Distant Voices, Still Lives; To Kill a Priest, The Dressmaker (1988), Hamlet (1990), Split Second, Alien³, Waterland, The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Anchoress, In the Name of the Father, Suite 16, The Usual Suspects, When Saturday Comes, James and the Giant Peach, Dragonheart, Crimetime, William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996), Brassed Off, The Serpent’s Kiss, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Bastard (1997), Amistad, Among Giants, Wayward Son, The Divine Ryans, When the Sky Falls, Rat (2000), Cowboy Up, The Shipping News, Triggermen, Between Strangers, The Limit (2004), Strange Bedfellows, Dark Water (2005), The Constant Gardener, Red Mercury, Æon Flux, Valley of the Heart’s Delight, The Omen (2006), Ghost Son, Closing the Ring, The Age of Stupid, Solomon Kane, Clash of the Titans, Inception, The Town (2010), and Killing Bono; the series Afternoon Off, Screen Two, Tales of Sherwood Forest, Sharpe, Martin Chuzzlewit, The Sins, Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion, and Criminal Justice; and the made-for-tv movies Coast to Coast (1987), Tumbledown, Treasure Island (1990), The Grass Arena, A Child from the South, Lost for Words, Alice in Wonderland, Butterfly Collectors, and Animal Farm (1999). He was also billed as Peter Postlethwaite.

Pete was the son of Mary Geraldine (Lawless) and William “Bill” Postlethwaite, who was a cooper, wood machinist, and school caretaker. He was married to BBC producer Jacqueline Morrish, until his death, with whom he had two children, including actor Billy Postlethwaite.

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