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 | Criminal Justice | Hooch | 2008-06-23 |
Movie | Ghost Son | Doc | 2007-04-05 |
Movie | Closing the Ring | Quinlan | 2007-09-14 |
Series | The One Show | Self - Guest | 2006-08-14 |
Movie | The Omen | Father Brennan | 2006-06-06 |
Movie | Valley of the Heart's Delight | Albion Munson | 2006-04-24 |
Movie | Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener | Self | 2006-01-10 |
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 | Strange Bedfellows | Russell McKenzie (taxman) | 2004-04-22 |
Movie | The Limit | Gale | 2004-12-28 |
Movie | Gone Dark / The Limit | Gale Carmody | 2004-12-28 |
Movie | Gone Dark | Gale Carmody | 2004-12-28 |
Movie | Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose | Arthur (voice) | 2003-12-26 |
Movie | Cowboy Up | Reid Braxton | 2002-09-03 |
Movie | Between Strangers | John | 2002-08-30 |
Movie | Triggermen | Ben Cutler | 2002-07-26 |
Movie | Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects' | Kobayashi (archive footage) | 2002-04-02 |
Movie | The Shipping News | Tert Card | 2001-12-18 |
Series | Richard & Judy | Self | 2001-11-26 |
Movie | Rat | Hubert Flynn | 2001-04-01 |
Series | Sins | Len Green | 2000-10-24 |
Movie | When the Sky Falls | Martin Shaughnessy | 2000-06-26 |
Series | The Sins | Len Green | 2000-10-24 |
Movie | Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings | 2000-12-25 | |
Movie | Animal Farm | Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice) | 1999-10-03 |
Movie | Wayward Son | Ben Alexander | 1999-09-20 |
Movie | Butterfly Collectors | John McKeown | 1999-04-19 |
Series | Butterfly Collectors | John McKeown | 1999-04-19 |
Movie | Alice in Wonderland | Carpenter | 1999-02-28 |
Movie | Lost for Words | Deric Longden | 1999-01-03 |
Movie | The Divine Ryans | Uncle Reg Ryan | 1999-01-01 |
Movie | The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr. | Self | 1999-01-01 |
Movie | Among Giants | Ray | 1998-06-24 |
Movie | The Serpent's Kiss | Thomas Smith | 1997-05-14 |
Movie | Making the 'Lost World' | Himself | 1997-05-08 |
Movie | The Making of 'The Lost World' | Self | 1997-05-08 |
Movie | The Lost World: Jurassic Park | Roland Tembo | 1997-05-23 |
Movie | Bandyta | Sincai | 1997-11-07 |
Movie | Amistad | Holabird | 1997-12-10 |
Movie | Romeo + Juliet | Father Laurence | 1996-11-01 |
Movie | Brassed Off | Danny | 1996-11-01 |
Movie | Crimetime | Sidney | 1996-08-01 |
Movie | DragonHeart | Gilbert | 1996-05-31 |
Movie | James and the Giant Peach | The Magic Man | 1996-04-12 |
Movie | When Saturday Comes | Ken Jackson | 1996-03-01 |
Movie | The Usual Suspects | Kobayashi | 1995-07-19 |
Series | Pie in the Sky | Kevin Tasker | 1994-03-13 |
Movie | Sin Bin | Mitch | 1994-05-18 |
Movie | Sharpe's Company | Obadiah Hakeswill | 1994-05-25 |
Movie | Sharpe's Enemy | Obadiah Hakeswill | 1994-06-01 |
Series | Martin Chuzzlewit | Tigg Montague | 1994-11-07 |
Movie | Suite 16 | Glover | 1994-11-24 |
Movie | In the Name of the Father | Giuseppe Conlon | 1993-12-12 |
Movie | Anchoress | William Carpenter | 1993-09-10 |
Series | Sharpe | Obadiah Hakeswill | 1993-05-05 |
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 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Quince (voice) | 1992-02-11 |
Movie | The Grass Arena | The Dipper | 1992-01-19 |
Movie | They Never Slept | Panter | 1991-01-20 |
Movie | Hamlet | Player King | 1990-12-19 |
Movie | Needle | Paula's Father | 1990-09-12 |
Movie | Treasure Island | George Merry | 1990-01-22 |
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 |
Series | The Academy Awards | Unknown | 1953-03-18 |