PETE
POSTLETHWAITE

Pete Postlethwaite was an English actor born in Warrington on 7 February 1946. Before acting professionally, he taught drama and trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

He worked at Liverpool’s Everyman Theatre and later with the Royal Shakespeare Company. His stage career continued alongside his screen work, including a later return to the Everyman as King Lear.

Terence Davies’s Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) brought him a notable film role. In In the Name of the Father (1993), he played Giuseppe Conlon and received an Academy Award nomination for supporting actor.

His film work also included The Usual Suspects, Brassed Off and Romeo + Juliet. In Christopher Nolan’s Inception (2010), he played Maurice Fischer, a businessman whose relationship with his son matters to the story.

Postlethwaite died on 2 January 2011. The film credits linked on FLM.RED come from its own catalogue and are not his complete filmography.