Pete Postlethwaite
Actor
Born February 7, 1946 in Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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.
Filmography
Killing Bono
Karl
Return to Jurassic Park
Self
The Town
Fergus "Fergie" Colm
Inception
Maurice Fischer
Clash of the Titans
Spyros
Solomon Kane
William Crowthorn
The Age of Stupid
The Archivist
Tattoos: A Scarred History
Self
Clough: The Brian Clough Story
Narrator
Criminal Justice
Hooch
Closing the Ring
Quinlan
Ghost Son
Doc
The Omen
Father Brennan
Valley of the Heart's Delight
Albion Munson
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
Self
Æon Flux
Keeper
The Constant Gardener
Lorbeer
Dark Water
Veeck
Red Mercury
Gold Commander
The Limit
Gale
Strange Bedfellows
Russell McKenzie (taxman)
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
Arthur (voice)
Thora Hird Tribute
Deric Longden (archive footage, uncredited)
Cowboy Up
Reid Braxton
Between Strangers
John
Triggermen
Ben Cutler
The Shipping News
Tert Card
Richard & Judy
Self
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Various Characters
The Sins
Len Green
Rat
Hubert Flynn
When the Sky Falls
Martin Shaughnessy
Animal Farm
Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones
Wayward Son
Ben Alexander
Butterfly Collectors
DI John McKeown
Alice in Wonderland
Carpenter
Lost for Words
Deric Longden
The Divine Ryans
Uncle Reg Ryan
The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.
Self
Among Giants
Ray
Amistad
Holabird
Brute
Sincai
Sharpe: The Legend
Hakeswill
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Roland Tembo
The Serpent's Kiss
Thomas Smith
The Making of 'The Lost World'
Self
Romeo + Juliet
Father Laurence
Brassed Off
Danny
Crimetime
Sidney
DragonHeart
Gilbert
James and the Giant Peach
The Magic Man
When Saturday Comes
Ken Jackson
The Usual Suspects
Kobayashi
Suite 16
Glover
Martin Chuzzlewit
Montague Tigg
Sharpe's Enemy
Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill
Sharpe's Company
Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill
Sin Bin
Mitch
Pie in the Sky
Kevin Tasker
In the Name of the Father
Giuseppe Conlon
Anchoress
William Carpenter
Sharpe
Obadiah Hakeswill
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Quince (voice)
Between the Lines
Ch. Supt. Jameson
The Last of the Mohicans
Captain Beams
Waterland
Henry Crick
Alien³
David
Split Second
Paulsen
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Quince (voice)
The Grass Arena
The Dipper
They Never Slept
Panter
Hamlet
Player King
Needle
Paula's Father
Treasure Island
George Merry
Zorro
Bandit
The Dressmaker
Jack
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Father
Number 27
Becket
To Kill a Priest
Josef
Tumbledown
Major (Rehabilitation Centre)
Coast to Coast
Kecks McGuinness
Casualty
Ralph Peters
ScreenPlay
Paula's Father
Lovejoy
Terence Sullivan
A Crack in the Ice
Painter
Screen Two
Panter
A Private Function
Nuttol
Mitch
Jack Frost
Fords on Water
Winston's Boss
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
Ireneusz Lesniak
The Muscle Market
Danny Duggan
Minder
Jack Wragg
Afternoon Off
Attendant in Art Gallery
Doris and Doreen
Mr. Lomax
Going Straight
Thomas Clifford Crowther
The Duellists
Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard
Plays for Britain
Soldier
The Paradise Run
Soldier
Occupy!
Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
Thwum
Duffy
The Racer
Ecco
Last of the Summer Wine
Man in Cafe
Play for Today
Danny Duggan
The Oscars
Self
The BAFTA Awards
Self