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.
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Movies (46)
Killing Bono
as Karl
2011
Return to Jurassic Park
as Self
2011
The Town
as Fergus "Fergie" Colm
2010
Inception
as Maurice Fischer
2010
Clash of the Titans
as Spyros
2010
Solomon Kane
as William Crowthorn
2009
The Age of Stupid
as The Archivist
2009
Tattoos: A Scarred History
as Self
2009
Clough: The Brian Clough Story
as Narrator
2009
Waving at Trains
as Douglas Warren
2009
Player
as Colin
2008
Closing the Ring
as Quinlan
2007
Ghost Son
as Doc
2007
The Omen
as Father Brennan
2006
Valley of the Heart's Delight
as Albion Munson
2006
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
as Self
2006
Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water'
as Self
2005
Æon Flux
as Keeper
2005
The Constant Gardener
as Lorbeer
2005
Dark Water
as Veeck
2005
Red Mercury
as Gold Commander
2005
The Limit
as Gale
2004
Strange Bedfellows
as Russell McKenzie (taxman)
2004
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
as Arthur (voice)
2003
Thora Hird Tribute
as Deric Longden (archive footage, uncredited)
2003
Cowboy Up
as Reid Braxton
2002
Between Strangers
as John
2002
Triggermen
as Ben Cutler
2002
The Shipping News
as Tert Card
2001
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
as Various Characters
2000
Rat
as Hubert Flynn
2000
When the Sky Falls
as Martin Shaughnessy
2000
Animal Farm
as Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice)
1999
Wayward Son
as Ben Alexander
1999
Alice in Wonderland
as Carpenter
1999
Lost for Words
as Deric Longden
1999
The Divine Ryans
as Uncle Reg Ryan
1999
The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.
as Self
1999
Among Giants
as Ray
1998
Amistad
as Holabird
1997
Brute
as Sincai
1997
Sharpe: The Legend
as Hakeswill
1997
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
as Roland Tembo
1997
The Serpent's Kiss
as Thomas Smith
1997
The Making of 'The Lost World'
as Self
1997
Romeo + Juliet
as Father Laurence
1996
