British Oscar-nominated Actor Pete Postlethwaite Dies At 64
Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite, one of the most brilliant actors of his generation died on Monday in central England at the age of 64 after fighting cancer for a long time.
Pete Postlethwaite was born in Warrington, Lancashire, on February 7, 1946, trained to become a teacher at Saint Mary’s College, Strawberry Hill, then he taught drama at Loretto College, Manchester.
At the age of 24 he started his career at Liverpool Everyman Theatre, and had the first success as an actor with the film Distant Voices, Still Lives, which was released in 1988.
He received an Academy Award nomination in 1993 for the role he played in In the Name of the Father, after which he appeared in The Usual Suspects, where his performance was appreciated.
He made remarkable appearances in Alien 3, Romeo + Juliet, Inception, The Constant Gardner, and many others.
He worked with Steven Spielberg in The Lost World: Jurassik Park, determining the famous film-maker to assert that “Pete Postlethwaite is the best actor in the world.”
One of his most successful roles was that of Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill, from the film Sharpe.
In 2004 he was made a Officer of the Order of the British Empire. In 2009 he threatened to give the order back if the government went on with the project of building coal-fired units at Kingsnorth power station.
In 1990 he was diagnosed with cancer, and had one testicle removed. He died at the Royal Shrewberry Hospital.
