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 | The Town | Fergus "Fergie" Colm | 2010-09-15 |
Movie | Inception | Maurice Fischer | 2010-07-15 |
Movie | Clash of the Titans | Spyros | 2010-03-26 |
Movie | The Age of Stupid | The Archivist | 2009-09-21 |
Movie | Solomon Kane | William Crowthorn | 2009-09-16 |
Movie | Clough: The Brian Clough Story | Narrator | 2009-03-25 |
Movie | Waving at Trains | Douglas Warren | 2009-01-01 |
Movie | Player | Colin | 2008-10-03 |
Series | Criminal Justice | Hooch | 2008-06-30 |
Movie | Closing the Ring | Quinlan | 2007-09-14 |
Movie | Ghost Son | Doc | 2007-04-05 |
Movie | Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener | Self | 2006-01-10 |
Movie | The Omen | Father Brennan | 2006-06-06 |
Movie | Valley of the Heart's Delight | Albion Munson | 2006-04-24 |
Series | The One Show | Self - Guest | 2006-08-14 |
Movie | Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water' | Self | 2005-12-26 |
Movie | Æon Flux | Keeper | 2005-11-30 |
Movie | The Constant Gardener | Lorbeer | 2005-08-31 |
Movie | Dark Water | Veeck | 2005-07-08 |
Movie | Red Mercury | Gold Commander | 2005-05-13 |
Movie | The Limit | Gale | 2004-12-28 |
Movie | Strange Bedfellows | Russell McKenzie (taxman) | 2004-04-22 |
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 | Between Strangers | John | 2002-08-30 |
Movie | Triggermen | Ben Cutler | 2002-07-26 |
Movie | Cowboy Up | Reid Braxton | 2002-09-03 |
Movie | The Shipping News | Tert Card | 2001-12-18 |
Series | Richard & Judy | Self | 2001-11-26 |
Movie | Rat | Hubert Flynn | 2001-04-01 |
Movie | Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings | Unknown | 2000-12-25 |
Series | Sins | Len Green | 2000-10-24 |
Movie | When the Sky Falls | Martin Shaughnessy | 2000-06-26 |
Movie | The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr. | Self | 1999-01-01 |
Movie | The Divine Ryans | Uncle Reg Ryan | 1999-01-01 |
Movie | Lost for Words | Deric Longden | 1999-01-03 |
Series | Butterfly Collectors | John McKeown | 1999-04-19 |
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 | Amistad | Holabird | 1997-12-10 |
Movie | Bandyta | Sincai | 1997-11-07 |
Movie | The Lost World: Jurassic Park | Roland Tembo | 1997-05-23 |
Movie | The Serpent's Kiss | Thomas Smith | 1997-05-14 |
Movie | The Making of 'The Lost World' | Self | 1997-05-08 |
Movie | James and the Giant Peach | The Magic Man | 1996-04-12 |
Movie | When Saturday Comes | Ken Jackson | 1996-03-01 |
Movie | Romeo + Juliet | Father Laurence | 1996-11-01 |
Movie | DragonHeart | Gilbert | 1996-05-31 |
Movie | Brassed Off | Danny | 1996-11-01 |
Movie | Crimetime | Sidney | 1996-08-01 |
Movie | The Usual Suspects | Kobayashi | 1995-07-19 |
Movie | Suite 16 | Glover | 1994-11-24 |
Series | Martin Chuzzlewit | Tigg Montague | 1994-11-07 |
Movie | Sharpe's Enemy | Obadiah Hakeswill | 1994-06-01 |
Movie | Sharpe's Company | Obadiah Hakeswill | 1994-05-25 |
Movie | Sin Bin | Mitch | 1994-05-18 |
Series | Pie in the Sky | Kevin Tasker | 1994-03-13 |
Series | Sharpe | Obadiah Hakeswill | 1993-05-05 |
Movie | In the Name of the Father | Giuseppe Conlon | 1993-12-12 |
Movie | Anchoress | William Carpenter | 1993-09-10 |
Series | Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | Quince (voice) | 1992-11-09 |
Series | Between the Lines | Unknown | 1992-09-04 |
Movie | The Last of the Mohicans | Captain Beams | 1992-08-26 |
Movie | Waterland | Henry Crick | 1992-08-21 |
Movie | Alien³ | David | 1992-05-22 |
Movie | Split Second | Paulsen | 1992-05-01 |
Movie | The Grass Arena | The Dipper | 1992-01-19 |
Movie | They Never Slept | Panter | 1991-01-20 |
Movie | Treasure Island | George Merry | 1990-01-22 |
Movie | Needle | Paula's Father | 1990-09-12 |
Movie | Hamlet | Player King | 1990-12-19 |
Series | Tales of Sherwood Forest | Eric | 1989-06-11 |
Movie | The Dressmaker | Jack | 1988-12-16 |
Movie | Distant Voices, Still Lives | Father | 1988-11-16 |
Movie | To Kill a Priest | Josef | 1988-09-07 |
Movie | Tumbledown | Major (Rehabilitation Centre) | 1988-05-29 |
Movie | Coast to Coast | Kecks McGuinness | 1987-01-04 |
Series | Casualty | Hank | 1986-09-06 |
Series | Lovejoy | Terence Sullivan | 1986-01-10 |
Movie | Cyrano de Bergerac | Ragueneau | 1985-07-26 |
Series | Mitch | Unknown | 1984-08-31 |
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 |
Series | Minder | Logie | 1979-10-29 |
Movie | Afternoon Off | Attendant in Art Gallery | 1979-02-03 |
Movie | Doris and Doreen | Mr. Lomax | 1978-12-16 |
Series | Going Straight | Unknown | 1978-02-24 |
Movie | The Duellists | Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard | 1977-08-31 |
Movie | The Paradise Run | Soldier | 1976-04-05 |
Movie | Occupy! | Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool | 1976-01-01 |
Movie | Thwum | Duffy | 1975-11-22 |
Series | Last of the Summer Wine | Man in Cafe | 1973-01-04 |
Series | The Oscars | Self | 1953-03-19 |