Pete Postlethwaite
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1946-02-07
Day of Death
2011-01-02 (64 years old)
Place of Birth
Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
Pete Postlethwaite
Biography
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.
Known For
Acting
(2011)
Return to Jurassic Park
as Self
(2011)
Killing Bono
as Karl
(2010)
Inception
as Maurice Fischer
(2010)
The Town
as Fergus "Fergie" Colm
(2010)
Clash of the Titans
as Spyros
(2009)
Solomon Kane
as William Crowthorn
(2009)
Tattoos: A Scarred History
as Self
(2009)
The Age of Stupid
as The Archivist
(2009)
Clough: The Brian Clough Story
as Narrator
(2009)
Waving at Trains
as Douglas Warren
(2008)
Player
as Colin
(2007)
Closing the Ring
as Quinlan
(2007)
Ghost Son
as Doc
(2006)
The Omen
as Father Brennan
(2006)
(2006)
Valley of the Heart's Delight
as Albion Munson
(2005)
Æon Flux
as Keeper
(2005)
The Constant Gardener
as Lorbeer
(2005)
Dark Water
as Veeck
(2005)
Red Mercury
as Gold Commander
(2005)
(2004)
Strange Bedfellows
as Russell McKenzie (taxman)
(2004)
The Limit
as Gale
(2003)
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
as Arthur (voice)
(2002)
Triggermen
as Ben Cutler
(2002)
Cowboy Up
as Reid Braxton
(2002)
Between Strangers
as John
(2002)
Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'
as Kobayashi (archive footage)
(2001)
The Shipping News
as Tert Card
(2000)
Rat
as Hubert Flynn
(2000)
When the Sky Falls
as Martin Shaughnessy
(2000)
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
as Various Characters
(1999)
Alice in Wonderland
as Carpenter
(1999)
Animal Farm
as Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice)
(1999)
(1999)
Lost for Words
as Deric Longden
(1999)
Wayward Son
as Ben Alexander
(1999)
The Divine Ryans
as Uncle Reg Ryan
(1998)
Among Giants
as Ray
(1997)
Amistad
as Holabird
(1997)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
as Roland Tembo
(1997)
Sharpe: The Legend
as Hakeswill
(1997)
(1997)
The Serpent's Kiss
as Thomas Smith
(1997)
Bandyta
as Sincai
(1996)
Romeo + Juliet
as Father Laurence
(1996)
James and the Giant Peach
as The Magic Man
(1996)
DragonHeart
as Gilbert
(1996)
Brassed Off
as Danny
(1996)
When Saturday Comes
as Ken Jackson
(1996)
Crimetime
as Sidney
(1995)
The Usual Suspects
as Kobayashi
(1994)
Suite 16
as Glover
(1994)
Sharpe's Enemy
as Obadiah Hakeswill
(1994)
Sin Bin
as Mitch
(1994)
Sharpe's Company
as Obadiah Hakeswill
(1993)
In the Name of the Father
as Giuseppe Conlon
(1993)
Anchoress
as William Carpenter
(1992)
The Last of the Mohicans
as Captain Beams
(1992)
Alien³
as David
(1992)
Split Second
as Paulsen
(1992)
Waterland
as Henry Crick
(1992)
The Grass Arena
as The Dipper
(1991)
They Never Slept
as Panter
(1991)
Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
as Player King (archive footage)
(1990)
Treasure Island
as George Merry
(1990)
Hamlet
as Player King
(1990)
Needle
as Paula's Father
(1990)
A Box of Swan
as Tony
(1990)
Kingdom Come
as Keef
(1988)
To Kill a Priest
as Josef
(1988)
Tumbledown
as Major (Rehabilitation Centre)
(1988)
Distant Voices, Still Lives
as Father
(1988)
The Dressmaker
as Jack
(1987)
Coast to Coast
as Kecks McGuinness
(1985)
Cyrano de Bergerac
as Ragueneau
(1984)
A Private Function
as Nuttol
(1983)
Fords on Water
as Winston's Boss
(1981)
The Muscle Market
as Danny Duggan
(1981)
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
as Ireneusz Lesniak
(1979)
Afternoon Off
as Attendant in Art Gallery
(1978)
Doris and Doreen
as Mr. Lomax
(1977)
The Duellists
as Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard
(1976)
Occupy!
as Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
(1976)
The Paradise Run
as Soldier
(1975)
Thwum
as Duffy