
Pete Postlethwaite (February 7, 1946 – January 2, 2011) was an English stage, film and television actor. After minor television appearances including in The Professionals, Postlethwaite's first success came with the film Distant Voices, Still Lives in 1988. He played a mysterious lawyer, Mr. Kobayashi, in The Usual Suspects, and he appeared in Alien 3, In the Name of the Father, Amistad, Brassed Off, The Shipping News, The Constant Gardener, The Age of Stupid, Inception, The Town, Romeo + Juliet, and Æon Flux. In television, Postlethwaite's most notable performance was as the villain Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill in the Sharpe television series and television movies opposite actor Sean Bean's character of Richard Sharpe. Postlethwaite was born in Warrington, England in 1946. He trained as a teacher and taught drama before training as an actor. Steven Spielberg called Postlethwaite "the best actor in the world" after working with him on The Lost World: Jurassic Park. He received an Academy Award nomination for his role in In the Name of the Father in 1993, and was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2004 New Year's Honours List. He died of pancreatic cancer.
Movie | Killing Bono | Karl | 2011-04-01 |
Movie | Return to Jurassic Park | Self | 2011-02-05 |
Movie | Inception | Maurice Fischer | 2010-07-15 |
Movie | Clash of the Titans | Spyros | 2010-03-26 |
Movie | The Town | Fergus "Fergie" Colm | 2010-09-15 |
Movie | Waving at Trains | Douglas Warren | 2009-01-01 |
Movie | Solomon Kane | William Crowthorn | 2009-09-16 |
Series | Criminal Justice | Hooch | 2008-06-30 |
Movie | Player | Colin | 2008-10-03 |
Movie | Ghost Son | Doc | 2007-04-05 |
Movie | Closing the Ring | Quinlan | 2007-09-14 |
Movie | Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener | Self | 2006-01-10 |
Movie | Valley of the Heart's Delight | Albion Munson | 2006-04-24 |
Series | The One Show | Self - Guest | 2006-08-14 |
Movie | The Omen | Father Brennan | 2006-06-06 |
Movie | Red Mercury | Gold Commander | 2005-05-13 |
Movie | Dark Water | Veeck | 2005-07-08 |
Movie | Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water' | Self | 2005-12-26 |
Movie | The Constant Gardener | Lorbeer | 2005-08-31 |
Movie | Æon Flux | Keeper | 2005-11-30 |
Movie | Strange Bedfellows | Russell McKenzie (taxman) | 2004-04-22 |
Movie | The Limit | Gale | 2004-12-28 |
Movie | Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose | Arthur (voice) | 2003-12-26 |
Movie | Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects' | Kobayashi (archive footage) | 2002-04-02 |
Movie | Triggermen | Ben Cutler | 2002-07-26 |
Movie | Between Strangers | John | 2002-08-30 |
Movie | Cowboy Up | Reid Braxton | 2002-09-03 |
Series | Richard & Judy | Self | 2001-11-26 |
Movie | The Shipping News | Tert Card | 2001-12-18 |
Movie | When the Sky Falls | Martin Shaughnessy | 2000-06-26 |
Movie | Rat | Hubert Flynn | 2000-10-06 |
Movie | Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings | Various Characters | 2000-12-25 |
Series | Sins | Len Green | 2000-10-24 |
Movie | Lost for Words | Deric Longden | 1999-01-03 |
Movie | The Divine Ryans | Uncle Reg Ryan | 1999-01-01 |
Movie | Wayward Son | Ben Alexander | 1999-09-20 |
Movie | Animal Farm | Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice) | 1999-10-03 |
Movie | Alice in Wonderland | Carpenter | 1999-02-28 |
Movie | Among Giants | Ray | 1998-06-24 |
Movie | The Lost World: Jurassic Park | Roland Tembo | 1997-05-23 |
Movie | The Serpent's Kiss | Thomas Smith | 1997-05-14 |
Movie | Bandyta | Sincai | 1997-11-07 |
Movie | Amistad | Holabird | 1997-12-10 |
Movie | James and the Giant Peach | The Magic Man | 1996-04-12 |
Movie | When Saturday Comes | Ken Jackson | 1996-03-01 |
Movie | DragonHeart | Gilbert | 1996-05-31 |
Movie | Romeo + Juliet | Father Laurence | 1996-11-01 |
Movie | Brassed Off | Danny | 1996-11-01 |
Movie | Crimetime | Sidney | 1996-08-01 |
Movie | The Usual Suspects | Kobayashi | 1995-07-19 |
Movie | Sin Bin | Mitch | 1994-05-18 |
Series | Pie in the Sky | Kevin Tasker | 1994-03-13 |
Movie | Sharpe's Company | Obadiah Hakeswill | 1994-05-25 |
Series | Martin Chuzzlewit | Tigg Montague | 1994-11-07 |
Movie | Sharpe's Enemy | Obadiah Hakeswill | 1994-06-01 |
Movie | Suite 16 | Glover | 1994-11-24 |
Movie | Anchoress | William Carpenter | 1993-09-10 |
Movie | In the Name of the Father | Giuseppe Conlon | 1993-12-12 |
Movie | Split Second | Paulsen | 1992-05-01 |
Movie | The Grass Arena | The Dipper | 1992-01-19 |
Movie | Alien³ | David | 1992-05-22 |
Movie | Waterland | Henry Crick | 1992-08-21 |
Series | Between the Lines | Ch. Supt. Jameson | 1992-09-04 |
Movie | The Last of the Mohicans | Captain Beams | 1992-08-26 |
Series | Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | Quince (voice) | 1992-11-09 |
Movie | Needle | Paula's Father | 1990-09-12 |
Movie | Treasure Island | George Merry | 1990-01-22 |
Movie | Hamlet | Player King | 1990-12-19 |
Movie | To Kill a Priest | Josef | 1988-09-07 |
Movie | Tumbledown | Major (Rehabilitation Centre) | 1988-05-29 |
Movie | Distant Voices, Still Lives | Father | 1988-11-16 |
Movie | The Dressmaker | Jack | 1988-12-16 |
Movie | Coast to Coast | Kecks McGuinness | 1987-01-04 |
Series | Lovejoy | Terence Sullivan | 1986-01-10 |
Series | Casualty | Hank | 1986-09-06 |
Series | Screen Two | Mitch | 1985-01-06 |
Movie | Cyrano de Bergerac | Ragueneau | 1985-07-26 |
Movie | A Private Function | Nuttol | 1984-11-09 |
Movie | Fords on Water | Winston's Boss | 1983-01-01 |
Movie | The Muscle Market | Danny Duggan | 1981-01-13 |
Movie | Afternoon Off | Attendant in Art Gallery | 1979-02-03 |
Series | Minder | Logie | 1979-10-29 |
Series | Going Straight | Thomas Clifford Crowther | 1978-02-24 |
Movie | Doris and Doreen | Mr. Lomax | 1978-12-16 |
Movie | The Duellists | Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard | 1977-08-31 |
Movie | Occupy! | Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool | 1976-01-01 |
Movie | The Paradise Run | Soldier | 1976-04-05 |
Movie | Thwum | Duffy | 1975-11-22 |
Series | Play for Today | Danny Duggan | 1970-10-15 |
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