
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 | Self | 2011-02-05 |
Movie | Clash of the Titans | Spyros | 2010-03-31 |
Movie | The Town | Fergus "Fergie" Colm | 2010-09-15 |
Movie | Inception | Maurice Fischer | 2010-07-15 |
Movie | Clough: The Brian Clough Story | Narrator | 2009-03-25 |
Movie | Solomon Kane | William Crowthorn | 2009-09-16 |
Movie | The Age of Stupid | The Archivist | 2009-09-21 |
Series | Criminal Justice | Hooch | 2008-06-30 |
Movie | Ghost Son | Doc | 2007-04-05 |
Movie | Closing the Ring | Quinlan | 2007-09-14 |
Movie | Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener | Self | 2006-01-10 |
Movie | Valley of the Heart's Delight | Albion Munson | 2006-04-24 |
Series | The One Show | Unknown | 2006-08-14 |
Movie | The Omen | Father Brennan | 2006-06-06 |
Movie | Red Mercury | Gold Commander | 2005-05-13 |
Movie | The Constant Gardener | Lorbeer | 2005-08-31 |
Movie | Dark Water | Veeck | 2005-07-08 |
Movie | Æon Flux | Keeper | 2005-11-30 |
Movie | Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water' | Self | 2005-12-26 |
Movie | Strange Bedfellows | Russell McKenzie (taxman) | 2004-04-22 |
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 Serpent's Kiss | Thomas Smith | 1997-05-14 |
Movie | The Making of 'The Lost World' | Himself | 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 | James and the Giant Peach | The Magic Man | 1996-04-12 |
Movie | DragonHeart | Gilbert | 1996-05-31 |
Movie | When Saturday Comes | Ken Jackson | 1996-03-01 |
Movie | Romeo + Juliet | Father Laurence | 1996-11-01 |
Movie | Brassed Off | Danny | 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 | 1992-05-22 |
Movie | Waterland | Henry Crick | 1992-08-21 |
Movie | The Last of the Mohicans | Captain Beams | 1992-08-26 |
Series | Between the Lines | Unknown | 1992-09-04 |
Movie | Needle | Paula's Father | 1990-09-12 |
Movie | Treasure Island | George Merry | 1990-01-22 |
Movie | Hamlet | Player King | 1990-12-19 |
Series | Tales of Sherwood Forest | Eric | 1989-06-11 |
Movie | Tumbledown | Major (Rehabilitation Centre) | 1988-05-29 |
Movie | To Kill a Priest | Josef | 1988-09-07 |
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 | Nuttol | 1984-11-09 |
Movie | Fords on Water | Winston's Boss | 1983-01-01 |
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! | Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool | 1976-01-01 |
Movie | The Paradise Run | Soldier | 1976-04-05 |
Series | Last of the Summer Wine | Unknown | 1973-01-04 |
Series | The Oscars | Unknown | 1953-03-18 |