Pete Postlethwaite
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Feb 7, 1946
- Died
- Jan 2, 2011 (aged 64)
- Place of birth
- Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
- Credits
- 117
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
Filmography
Killing Bono
2011Movie
Karl
Return to Jurassic Park
2011Movie
Self
The Town
2010Movie
Fergus "Fergie" Colm
Inception
2010Movie
Maurice Fischer
Clash of the Titans
2010Movie
Spyros
Solomon Kane
2009Movie
William Crowthorn
The Age of Stupid
2009Movie
The Archivist
Tattoos: A Scarred History
2009Movie
Self
Clough: The Brian Clough Story
2009Movie
Narrator
Waving at Trains
2009Movie
Douglas Warren
Player
2008Movie
Colin
Criminal Justice
2008TV
Hooch
Closing the Ring
2007Movie
Quinlan
Ghost Son
2007Movie
Doc
The Omen
2006Movie
Father Brennan
Valley of the Heart's Delight
2006Movie
Albion Munson
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
2006Movie
Self
Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water'
2005Movie
Self
Æon Flux
2005Movie
Keeper
The Constant Gardener
2005Movie
Lorbeer
Dark Water
2005Movie
Veeck
Red Mercury
2005Movie
Gold Commander
The Limit
2004Movie
Gale
Strange Bedfellows
2004Movie
Russell McKenzie (taxman)
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
2003Movie
Arthur (voice)
Thora Hird Tribute
2003Movie
Deric Longden (archive footage, uncredited)
Cowboy Up
2002Movie
Reid Braxton
Between Strangers
2002Movie
John
Triggermen
2002Movie
Ben Cutler
The Shipping News
2001Movie
Tert Card
Richard & Judy
2001TV
Self
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000Movie
Various Characters
The Sins
2000TV
Len Green
Rat
2000Movie
Hubert Flynn
When the Sky Falls
2000Movie
Martin Shaughnessy
Animal Farm
1999Movie
Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones
Wayward Son
1999Movie
Ben Alexander
Butterfly Collectors
1999TV
DI John McKeown
Alice in Wonderland
1999Movie
Carpenter
Lost for Words
1999Movie
Deric Longden
The Divine Ryans
1999Movie
Uncle Reg Ryan
The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.
1999Movie
Self
Among Giants
1998Movie
Ray
Amistad
1997Movie
Holabird
Brute
1997Movie
Sincai
Sharpe: The Legend
1997Movie
Hakeswill
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997Movie
Roland Tembo
The Serpent's Kiss
1997Movie
Thomas Smith
The Making of 'The Lost World'
1997Movie
Self
Romeo + Juliet
1996Movie
Father Laurence
Brassed Off
1996Movie
Danny
Crimetime
1996Movie
Sidney
DragonHeart
1996Movie
Gilbert
James and the Giant Peach
1996Movie
The Magic Man
When Saturday Comes
1996Movie
Ken Jackson
TFI Friday
1996TV
The Usual Suspects
1995Movie
Kobayashi
Suite 16
1994Movie
Glover
Martin Chuzzlewit
1994TV
Montague Tigg
Sharpe's Enemy
1994Movie
Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill
Sharpe's Company
1994Movie
Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill
Sin Bin
1994Movie
Mitch
Pie in the Sky
1994TV
Kevin Tasker
In the Name of the Father
1993Movie
Giuseppe Conlon
Anchoress
1993Movie
William Carpenter
Sharpe
1993TV
Obadiah Hakeswill
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992TV
Quince (voice)
Between the Lines
1992TV
Ch. Supt. Jameson
The Last of the Mohicans
1992Movie
Captain Beams
Waterland
1992Movie
Henry Crick
Alien³
1992Movie
David
Split Second
1992Movie
Paulsen
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1992Movie
Quince (voice)
The Grass Arena
1991Movie
The Dipper
They Never Slept
1991Movie
Panter
Hamlet
1990Movie
Player King
A Box of Swan
1990Movie
Tony
Kingdom Come
1990Movie
Keef
Needle
1990Movie
Paula's Father
Debut on Two
1990TV
Keef, Tony
Treasure Island
1990Movie
George Merry
El C.I.D.
1990TV
Vince
Zorro
1990TV
Bandit
Tales of Sherwood Forest
1989TV
Eric
The Dressmaker
1988Movie
Jack
Distant Voices, Still Lives
1988Movie
Father
Number 27
1988Movie
Becket
To Kill a Priest
1988Movie
Josef
Tumbledown
1988Movie
Major (Rehabilitation Centre)
Coast to Coast
1987Movie
Kecks McGuinness
Casualty
1986TV
Ralph Peters, Hank
ScreenPlay
1986TV
Paula's Father
Boon
1986TV
Steve McLaughlin
Lovejoy
1986TV
Terence Sullivan
A Crack in the Ice
1985Movie
Painter
Cyrano de Bergerac
1985Movie
Ragueneau
Screen Two
1985TV
Panter, Kecks McGuinness, The Dipper, Mitch
A Private Function
1984Movie
Nuttol
Mitch
1984TV
Jack Frost
Fords on Water
1983Movie
Winston's Boss
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
1981Movie
Ireneusz Lesniak
The Muscle Market
1981Movie
Danny Duggan
Minder
1979TV
Jack Wragg, Logie
Afternoon Off
1979Movie
Attendant in Art Gallery
Doris and Doreen
1978Movie
Mr. Lomax
Going Straight
1978TV
Thomas Clifford Crowther
The Duellists
1977Movie
Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard
Plays for Britain
1976TV
Soldier
The Paradise Run
1976Movie
Soldier
Occupy!
1976Movie
Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
Thwum
1975Movie
Duffy
The Racer
1975Movie
Ecco
Second City Firsts
1973TV
Duffy
Last of the Summer Wine
1973TV
Man in Cafe
Play for Today
1970TV
Danny Duggan
The Oscars
1953TV
Self
The BAFTA Awards
1949TV
Self