
Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE ( 7 February 1946 – 2 January 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 on 2 January 2011. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pete Postlethwaite, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie | Killing Bono | Karl | 2011-04-01 |
Movie | Return to Jurassic Park | 2011-02-05 | |
Movie | Inception | Maurice Fischer | 2010-07-15 |
Movie | Clash of the Titans | Spyros | 2010-04-01 |
Movie | The Town | Fergus 'Fergie' Colm | 2010-09-15 |
Movie | Solomon Kane | William Crowthorn | 2009-09-16 |
Movie | The Age of Stupid | The Archivist | 2009-09-21 |
Movie | Criminal Justice | 2008-06-23 | |
Series | Criminal Justice | Hooch | 2008-06-30 |
Movie | Ghost Son | Doc | 2007-04-05 |
Movie | Closing the Ring | Quinlan | 2007-09-14 |
Movie | Valley of the Heart's Delight | Albion Munson | 2006-04-24 |
Movie | The Omen | Father Brennan | 2006-06-06 |
Series | The One Show | Unknown | 2006-08-14 |
Movie | Red Mercury | Gold Commander | 2005-05-13 |
Movie | Dark Water | Veeck | 2005-07-08 |
Movie | The Constant Gardener | Dr. Lorbeer aka Dr. Brandt | 2005-08-31 |
Movie | Æon Flux | Keeper | 2005-11-30 |
Movie | Strange Bedfellows | Russell McKenzie (taxman) | 2004-04-21 |
Movie | Gone Dark | Gale Carmody | 2004-12-28 |
Movie | Triggermen | Ben Cutler | 2002-01-01 |
Movie | Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects' | Kobayashi (archive footage) | 2002-04-02 |
Movie | Cowboy Up | Reid Braxton | 2002-09-03 |
Movie | Between Strangers | John | 2002-08-30 |
Series | Richard & Judy | Unknown | 2001-11-26 |
Movie | Rat | Hubert Flynn | 2001-04-01 |
Movie | The Shipping News | Tert Card | 2001-12-18 |
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 | The Divine Ryans | Uncle Reg Ryan | 1999-01-01 |
Movie | Lost for Words | Deric Longden | 1999-01-03 |
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 | The Lost World: Jurassic Park | Roland Tembo | 1997-05-23 |
Movie | Making the 'Lost World' | Himself | 1997-05-08 |
Movie | Bandyta | Sincai | 1997-11-07 |
Movie | Amistad | Holabird | 1997-12-03 |
Movie | James and the Giant Peach | Old Man | 1996-04-12 |
Movie | When Saturday Comes | Ken Jackson | 1996-03-01 |
Movie | DragonHeart | Gilbert of Glockenspur | 1996-05-31 |
Movie | Brassed Off | Danny | 1996-11-01 |
Movie | Romeo + Juliet | Father Laurence | 1996-11-01 |
Movie | Crimetime | Sidney | 1996-08-01 |
Movie | The Usual Suspects | Kobayashi | 1995-07-19 |
Movie | Sin Bin | Mitch | 1994-05-18 |
Movie | Sharpe's Company | Hakeswill | 1994-05-25 |
Series | Martin Chuzzlewit | Tigg Montague | 1994-11-07 |
Movie | Sharpe's Enemy | Hakeswill | 1994-06-01 |
Movie | Suite 16 | Glover | 1994-11-24 |
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 |
Movie | Split Second | Paulsen | 1992-05-01 |
Movie | The Grass Arena | The Dipper | 1992-01-19 |
Movie | Alien³ | David Postlethwaite | 1992-05-22 |
Movie | Waterland | Henry Crick | 1992-08-21 |
Series | Between the Lines | Unknown | 1992-09-04 |
Movie | The Last of the Mohicans | Capt. Beams | 1992-09-25 |
Movie | Needle | 1990-09-12 | |
Movie | Treasure Island | George Merry | 1990-06-08 |
Movie | Hamlet | Player King | 1990-12-19 |
Series | Tales of Sherwood Forest | Eric | 1989-06-11 |
Movie | To Kill a Priest | Josef | 1988-01-01 |
Movie | Tumbledown | Major (Rehabilitation Centre) | 1988-05-29 |
Movie | The Dressmaker | Jack | 1988-12-16 |
Movie | Distant Voices, Still Lives | Father | 1988-09-29 |
Movie | Coast to Coast | Kecks McGuinness | 1987-01-04 |
Series | Lovejoy | Unknown | 1986-01-10 |
Movie | Cyrano de Bergerac | Ragueneau | 1985-07-26 |
Movie | A Private Function | Douglas J. Nuttol | 1984-11-09 |
Movie | The Muscle Market | Danny Duggan | 1981-01-13 |
Movie | Afternoon Off | Attendant in Art Gallery | 1979-02-03 |
Series | Minder | Unknown | 1979-10-29 |
Series | Going Straight | Unknown | 1978-02-24 |
Movie | Doris and Doreen | Mr. Lomax | 1978-12-16 |
Movie | The Duellists | Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard | 1977-08-31 |
Movie | Occupy! | 1976-01-01 | |
Movie | The Paradise Run | Soldier | 1976-04-05 |
Series | Last of the Summer Wine | Unknown | 1973-01-04 |
Series | The Academy Awards | Unknown | 1953-03-18 |