Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
February 7, 1946
Place of Birth:
Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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Pete Postlethwaite
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Killing Bono | Karl |
| 2011 | Return to Jurassic Park | Self |
| 2010 | The Town | Fergus "Fergie" Colm |
| 2010 | Inception | Maurice Fischer |
| 2010 | Clash of the Titans | Spyros |
| 2009 | The Age of Stupid | The Archivist |
| 2009 | Solomon Kane | William Crowthorn |
| 2009 | Waving at Trains | Douglas Warren |
| 2009 | Clough: The Brian Clough Story | Narrator |
| 2009 | Tattoos: A Scarred History | Self |
| 2008 | Player | Colin |
| 2007 | Closing the Ring | Quinlan |
| 2007 | Ghost Son | Doc |
| 2006 | Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener | Self |
| 2006 | Valley of the Heart's Delight | Albion Munson |
| 2006 | The Omen | Father Brennan |
| 2005 | The Constant Gardener | Lorbeer |
| 2005 | Æon Flux | Keeper |
| 2005 | Dark Water | Veeck |
| 2005 | Red Mercury | Gold Commander |
| 2005 | Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water' | Self |
| 2004 | Strange Bedfellows | Russell McKenzie (taxman) |
| 2004 | The Limit | Gale |
| 2003 | Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose | Arthur (voice) |
| 2002 | Triggermen | Ben Cutler |
| 2002 | Between Strangers | John |
| 2002 | Cowboy Up | Reid Braxton |
| 2002 | Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects' | Kobayashi (archive footage) |
| 2001 | The Shipping News | Tert Card |
| 2000 | Rat | Hubert Flynn |
| 2000 | Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings | Various Characters |
| 2000 | When the Sky Falls | Martin Shaughnessy |
| 1999 | Animal Farm | Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice) |
| 1999 | The Divine Ryans | Uncle Reg Ryan |
| 1999 | Lost for Words | Deric Longden |
| 1999 | The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr. | Self |
| 1999 | Alice in Wonderland | Carpenter |
| 1999 | Wayward Son | Ben Alexander |
| 1998 | Among Giants | Ray |
| 1997 | The Lost World: Jurassic Park | Roland Tembo |
| 1997 | Bandyta | Sincai |
| 1997 | Amistad | Holabird |
| 1997 | Sharpe: The Legend | Hakeswill |
| 1997 | The Making of 'The Lost World' | Self |
| 1997 | The Serpent's Kiss | Thomas Smith |
| 1996 | Romeo + Juliet | Father Laurence |
| 1996 | When Saturday Comes | Ken Jackson |
| 1996 | James and the Giant Peach | The Magic Man |
| 1996 | DragonHeart | Gilbert |
| 1996 | Brassed Off | Danny |
| 1996 | Crimetime | Sidney |
| 1995 | The Usual Suspects | Kobayashi |
| 1994 | Suite 16 | Glover |
| 1994 | Sharpe's Company | Obadiah Hakeswill |
| 1994 | Sharpe's Enemy | Obadiah Hakeswill |
| 1994 | Sin Bin | Mitch |
| 1993 | In the Name of the Father | Giuseppe Conlon |
| 1993 | Anchoress | William Carpenter |
| 1992 | Alien³ | David |
| 1992 | Split Second | Paulsen |
| 1992 | The Last of the Mohicans | Captain Beams |
| 1992 | Waterland | Henry Crick |
| 1992 | The Grass Arena | The Dipper |
| 1991 | They Never Slept | Panter |
| 1991 | Mel Gibson Goes Back to School | Player King (archive footage) |
| 1990 | Needle | Paula's Father |
| 1990 | Kingdom Come | Keef |
| 1990 | A Box of Swan | Tony |
| 1990 | Hamlet | Player King |
| 1990 | Treasure Island | George Merry |
| 1988 | Distant Voices, Still Lives | Father |
| 1988 | To Kill a Priest | Josef |
| 1988 | The Dressmaker | Jack |
| 1988 | Tumbledown | Major (Rehabilitation Centre) |
| 1987 | Coast to Coast | Kecks McGuinness |
| 1985 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Ragueneau |
| 1984 | A Private Function | Nuttol |
| 1983 | Fords on Water | Winston's Boss |
| 1981 | The Muscle Market | Danny Duggan |
| 1981 | Strike: The Birth of Solidarity | Ireneusz Lesniak |
| 1979 | Afternoon Off | Attendant in Art Gallery |
| 1978 | Doris and Doreen | Mr. Lomax |
| 1977 | The Duellists | Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard |
| 1976 | The Paradise Run | Soldier |
| 1976 | Occupy! | Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool |
| 1975 | Thwum | Duffy |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Criminal Justice | Hooch |
| 2006 | The One Show | Self - Guest |
| 2001 | Richard & Judy | Self |
| 2000 | Sins | Len Green |
| 1999 | Butterfly Collectors | John McKeown |
| 1994 | Pie in the Sky | Kevin Tasker |
| 1994 | Martin Chuzzlewit | Tigg Montague |
| 1993 | Sharpe | Obadiah Hakeswill |
| 1992 | Between the Lines | Ch. Supt. Jameson |
| 1992 | Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | Quince (voice) |
| 1990 | El C.I.D. | Vince |
| 1990 | Zorro | Bandit |
| 1989 | Tales of Sherwood Forest | Eric |
| 1986 | Lovejoy | Terence Sullivan |
| 1986 | Casualty | Ralph Peters |
| 1986 | Casualty | Hank |
| 1985 | Screen Two | Panter |
| 1985 | Screen Two | Kecks McGuinness |
| 1985 | Screen Two | The Dipper |
| 1985 | Screen Two | Mitch |
| 1984 | Mitch | Jack Frost |
| 1979 | Minder | Jack Wragg |
| 1979 | Minder | Logie |
| 1978 | Going Straight | Thomas Clifford Crowther |
| 1973 | Last of the Summer Wine | Man in Cafe |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Danny Duggan |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self |
| 1949 | The BAFTA Awards | Self |