Pete Postlethwaite
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Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE (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.
Known for
Credits
Inception (2010)
as Maurice Fischer
The Usual Suspects (1995)
as Kobayashi
Alien³ (1992)
as David
The Town (2010)
as Fergus "Fergie" Colm
Romeo + Juliet (1996)
as Father Laurence
Clash of the Titans (2010)
as Spyros
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
as Captain Beams
Æon Flux (2005)
as Keeper
Solomon Kane (2009)
as William Crowthorn
DragonHeart (1996)
as Gilbert
James and the Giant Peach (1996)
as The Magic Man
In the Name of the Father (1993)
as Giuseppe Conlon
The Constant Gardener (2005)
as Lorbeer
Dark Water (2005)
as Veeck
The Omen (2006)
as Father Brennan
The Duellists (1977)
as Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard
Alice in Wonderland (1999)
as Carpenter
Treasure Island (1990)
as George Merry
Split Second (1992)
as Paulsen
The Shipping News (2001)
as Tert Card
Closing the Ring (2007)
as Quinlan
Hamlet (1990)
as Player King
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings (2000)
as Various Characters
Animal Farm (1999)
as Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones
Brassed Off (1996)
as Danny
Triggermen (2002)
as Ben Cutler
Between Strangers (2002)
as John
Sharpe's Enemy (1994)
as Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill
Sharpe's Company (1994)
as Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill
Waterland (1992)
as Henry Crick
The Age of Stupid (2009)
as The Archivist
A Private Function (1984)
as Nuttol
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
as Father
Strange Bedfellows (2004)
as Russell McKenzie (taxman)
Sharpe: The Legend (1997)
as Hakeswill
Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water' (2005)
as Self
Return to Jurassic Park (2011)
as Self
Killing Bono (2011)
as Karl
Crimetime (1996)
as Sidney
Tattoos: A Scarred History (2009)
as Self
Anchoress (1993)
as William Carpenter
The Muscle Market (1981)
as Danny Duggan
When Saturday Comes (1996)
as Ken Jackson
Among Giants (1998)
as Ray
The Serpent's Kiss (1997)
as Thomas Smith
Rat (2000)
as Hubert Flynn
To Kill a Priest (1988)
as Josef
Cowboy Up (2002)
as Reid Braxton
Ghost Son (2007)
as Doc
Amistad (1997)
as Holabird
The Limit (2004)
as Gale
The Making of 'The Lost World' (1997)
as Self
Brute (1997)
as Sincai
Suite 16 (1994)
as Glover
Player (2008)
as Colin
Tumbledown (1988)
as Major (Rehabilitation Centre)
The Dressmaker (1988)
as Jack
The Paradise Run (1976)
as Soldier
Afternoon Off (1979)
as Attendant in Art Gallery
Valley of the Heart's Delight (2006)
as Albion Munson
Wayward Son (1999)
as Ben Alexander
Number 27 (1988)
as Becket
Fords on Water (1983)
as Winston's Boss
Thwum (1975)
as Duffy
The Grass Arena (1992)
as The Dipper
When the Sky Falls (2000)
as Martin Shaughnessy
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity (1981)
as Ireneusz Lesniak
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener (2006)
as Self
Red Mercury (2005)
as Gold Commander
Occupy! (1976)
as Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
Lost for Words (1999)
as Deric Longden
They Never Slept (1991)
as Panter
The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr. (1999)
as Self
Kingdom Come (1990)
as Keef
Coast to Coast (1987)
as Kecks McGuinness
A Crack in the Ice (1985)
as Painter
Sin Bin (1994)
as Mitch
Needle (1990)
as Paula's Father
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1992)
as Quince (voice)
Thora Hird Tribute (2003)
as Deric Longden (archive footage, uncredited)
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose (2003)
as Arthur (voice)
Doris and Doreen (1978)
as Mr. Lomax
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
as Roland Tembo
A Box of Swan (1990)
as Tony
The Racer (1975)
as Ecco
Clough: The Brian Clough Story (2009)
as Narrator
Cyrano de Bergerac (1985)
as Ragueneau
The Divine Ryans (1999)
as Uncle Reg Ryan
Waving at Trains (2009)
as Douglas Warren