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 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.
Acting
(2011)
Killing Bono
as Karl
(2011)
Return to Jurassic Park
as Self
(2010)
Inception
as Maurice Fischer
(2010)
The Town
as Fergus "Fergie" Colm
(2010)
Clash of the Titans
as Spyros
(2009)
Clough: The Brian Clough Story
as Narrator
(2009)
Solomon Kane
as William Crowthorn
(2009)
Waving at Trains
as Douglas Warren
(2009)
Tattoos: A Scarred History
as Self
(2009)
The Age of Stupid
as The Archivist
(2008)
Criminal Justice
as Hooch
(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)
(2003)
Thora Hird Tribute
as Deric Longden (archive footage, uncredited)
(2002)
Cowboy Up
as Reid Braxton
(2002)
Triggermen
as Ben Cutler
(2002)
Between Strangers
as John
(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)
Animal Farm
as Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice)
(1999)
Alice in Wonderland
as Carpenter
(1999)
The Divine Ryans
as Uncle Reg Ryan
(1999)
Lost for Words
as Deric Longden
(1999)
(1999)
Wayward Son
as Ben Alexander
(1998)
Among Giants
as Ray
(1997)
Sharpe: The Legend
as Hakeswill
(1997)
The Serpent's Kiss
as Thomas Smith
(1997)
Bandyta
as Sincai
(1997)
(1997)
Amistad
as Holabird
(1997)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
as Roland Tembo
(1996)
Romeo + Juliet
as Father Laurence
(1996)
DragonHeart
as Gilbert
(1996)
James and the Giant Peach
as The Magic Man
(1996)
When Saturday Comes
as Ken Jackson
(1996)
Crimetime
as Sidney
(1996)
Brassed Off
as Danny
(1995)
The Usual Suspects
as Kobayashi
(1994)
Sin Bin
as Mitch
(1994)
Suite 16
as Glover
(1994)
Sharpe's Enemy
as Obadiah Hakeswill
(1994)
Sharpe's Company
as Obadiah Hakeswill
(1993)
In the Name of the Father
as Giuseppe Conlon
(1993)
Anchoress
as William Carpenter
(1992)
Alien³
as David
(1992)
The Last of the Mohicans
as Captain Beams
(1992)
Split Second
as Paulsen
(1992)
The Grass Arena
as The Dipper
(1992)
Waterland
as Henry Crick
(1991)
Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
as Player King (archive footage)
(1991)
They Never Slept
as Panter
(1990)
Needle
as Paula's Father
(1990)
Hamlet
as Player King
(1990)
Treasure Island
as George Merry
(1990)
A Box of Swan
as Tony
(1990)
Kingdom Come
as Keef
(1988)
Distant Voices, Still Lives
as Father
(1988)
To Kill a Priest
as Josef
(1988)
Number 27
as Becket
(1988)
The Dressmaker
as Jack
(1988)
Tumbledown
as Major (Rehabilitation Centre)
(1987)
Coast to Coast
as Kecks McGuinness
(1985)
Cyrano de Bergerac
as Ragueneau
(1985)
A Crack in the Ice
as Painter
(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