Pete Postlethwaite

Pete Postlethwaite

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.

Killing Bono
2011
Karl
Return to Jurassic Park
2011
Self
The Town
2010
Fergus "Fergie" Colm
Inception
2010
Maurice Fischer
Clash of the Titans
2010
Spyros
The Age of Stupid
2009
The Archivist
Solomon Kane
2009
William Crowthorn
Clough: The Brian Clough Story
2009
Narrator
Tattoos: A Scarred History
2009
Self
Closing the Ring
2007
Quinlan
Ghost Son
2007
Doc
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
2006
Self
Valley of the Heart's Delight
2006
Albion Munson
The Omen
2006
Father Brennan
The Constant Gardener
2005
Lorbeer
Æon Flux
2005
Keeper
Dark Water
2005
Veeck
Red Mercury
2005
Gold Commander
Strange Bedfellows
2004
Russell McKenzie (taxman)
The Limit
2004
Gale
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
2003
Arthur (voice)
Triggermen
2002
Ben Cutler
Between Strangers
2002
John
Cowboy Up
2002
Reid Braxton
Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'
2002
Kobayashi (archive footage)
The Shipping News
2001
Tert Card
Rat
2000
Hubert Flynn
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
Various Characters
When the Sky Falls
2000
Martin Shaughnessy
Animal Farm
1999
Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice)
The Divine Ryans
1999
Uncle Reg Ryan
Lost for Words
1999
Deric Longden
The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.
1999
Self
Alice in Wonderland
1999
Carpenter
Wayward Son
1999
Ben Alexander
Among Giants
1998
Ray
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997
Roland Tembo
Bandyta
1997
Sincai
Amistad
1997
Holabird
Sharpe: The Legend
1997
Hakeswill
The Making of 'The Lost World'
1997
Self
The Serpent's Kiss
1997
Thomas Smith
Romeo + Juliet
1996
Father Laurence
When Saturday Comes
1996
Ken Jackson
James and the Giant Peach
1996
The Magic Man
DragonHeart
1996
Gilbert
Brassed Off
1996
Danny
Crimetime
1996
Sidney
The Usual Suspects
1995
Kobayashi
Suite 16
1994
Glover
Sharpe's Company
1994
Obadiah Hakeswill
Sharpe's Enemy
1994
Obadiah Hakeswill
Sin Bin
1994
Mitch
In the Name of the Father
1993
Giuseppe Conlon
Anchoress
1993
William Carpenter
Alien³
1992
David
Split Second
1992
Paulsen
The Last of the Mohicans
1992
Captain Beams
Waterland
1992
Henry Crick
The Grass Arena
1992
The Dipper
They Never Slept
1991
Panter
Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
1991
Player King (archive footage)
Needle
1990
Paula's Father
Hamlet
1990
Player King
Treasure Island
1990
George Merry
Distant Voices, Still Lives
1988
Father
To Kill a Priest
1988
Josef
The Dressmaker
1988
Jack
Tumbledown
1988
Major (Rehabilitation Centre)
A Private Function
1984
Nuttol
Fords on Water
1983
Winston's Boss
The Muscle Market
1981
Danny Duggan
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
1981
Ireneusz Lesniak
Afternoon Off
1979
Attendant in Art Gallery
Doris and Doreen
1978
Mr. Lomax
The Duellists
1977
Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard
Occupy!
1976
Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
Thwum
1975
Duffy