Pete Postlethwaite
Known for Acting · 114 credits
- Born
- 1946-02-07
- Died
- 2011-01-02
- Place of birth
- Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
- Also known as
- Peter William Postlethwaite · Peter Postlethwaite
Biography
Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE (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
TV Shows (25)
Casualty
1986
as Ralph Peters / Hank
Play for Today
1970
as Danny Duggan
Richard & Judy
2001
as Self
Minder
1979
as Jack Wragg / Logie
Last of the Summer Wine
1973
as Man in Cafe
Screen Two
1985
as Panter / Kecks McGuinness / The Dipper / Mitch
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Zorro
1990
as Bandit
Pie in the Sky
1994
as Kevin Tasker
Sharpe
1993
as Obadiah Hakeswill
The BAFTA Awards
1949
as Self
Lovejoy
1986
as Terence Sullivan
Between the Lines
1992
as Ch. Supt. Jameson
ScreenPlay
1986
as Paula's Father
Second City Firsts
1973
as Duffy
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992
as Quince (voice)
Criminal Justice
2008
as Hooch
Mitch
1984
as Jack Frost
Martin Chuzzlewit
1994
as Montague Tigg
Butterfly Collectors
1999
as DI John McKeown
Plays for Britain
1976
as Soldier
The Sins
2000
as Len Green
Going Straight
1978
as Thomas Clifford Crowther
El C.I.D.
1990
as Vince
Tales of Sherwood Forest
1989
as Eric
Movies (89)
Inception
2010
as Maurice Fischer
The Usual Suspects
1995
as Kobayashi
The Town
2010
as Fergus "Fergie" Colm
Alien³
1992
as David
Clash of the Titans
2010
as Spyros
The Last of the Mohicans
1992
as Captain Beams
Romeo + Juliet
1996
as Father Laurence
The Constant Gardener
2005
as Lorbeer
Æon Flux
2005
as Keeper
Solomon Kane
2009
as William Crowthorn
DragonHeart
1996
as Gilbert
Return to Jurassic Park
2011
as Self
James and the Giant Peach
1996
as The Magic Man
In the Name of the Father
1993
as Giuseppe Conlon
Treasure Island
1990
as George Merry
Anchoress
1993
as William Carpenter
The Omen
2006
as Father Brennan
Alice in Wonderland
1999
as Carpenter
Dark Water
2005
as Veeck
Sharpe's Company
1994
as Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill
Split Second
1992
as Paulsen
Sharpe: The Legend
1997
as Hakeswill
Sharpe's Enemy
1994
as Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill
Player
2008
as Colin
A Private Function
1984
as Nuttol
Triggermen
2002
as Ben Cutler
The Duellists
1977
as Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard
Rat
2000
as Hubert Flynn
The Limit
2004
as Gale
Thwum
1975
as Duffy
Hamlet
1990
as Player King
Closing the Ring
2007
as Quinlan
Tumbledown
1988
as Major (Rehabilitation Centre)
Animal Farm
1999
as Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones
When the Sky Falls
2000
as Martin Shaughnessy
Killing Bono
2011
as Karl
The Shipping News
2001
as Tert Card
Occupy!
1976
as Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
Brassed Off
1996
as Danny
Fords on Water
1983
as Winston's Boss
Cowboy Up
2002
as Reid Braxton
The Age of Stupid
2009
as The Archivist
Valley of the Heart's Delight
2006
as Albion Munson
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1992
as Quince (voice)
Wayward Son
1999
as Ben Alexander
The Dressmaker
1988
as Jack
The Making of 'The Lost World'
1997
as Self
The Grass Arena
1992
as The Dipper
Crimetime
1996
as Sidney
Among Giants
1998
as Ray
Kingdom Come
1990
as Keef
Coast to Coast
1987
as Kecks McGuinness
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
as Various Characters
The Paradise Run
1976
as Soldier
Cyrano de Bergerac
1985
as Ragueneau
The Divine Ryans
1999
as Uncle Reg Ryan
When Saturday Comes
1996
as Ken Jackson
To Kill a Priest
1988
as Josef
Lost for Words
1999
as Deric Longden
Ghost Son
2007
as Doc
Waving at Trains
2009
as Douglas Warren
The Serpent's Kiss
1997
as Thomas Smith
The Racer
1975
as Ecco
Between Strangers
2002
as John
Thora Hird Tribute
2003
as Deric Longden (archive footage, uncredited)
They Never Slept
1991
as Panter
Distant Voices, Still Lives
1988
as Father
Strange Bedfellows
2004
as Russell McKenzie (taxman)
Doris and Doreen
1978
as Mr. Lomax
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
1981
as Ireneusz Lesniak
Tattoos: A Scarred History
2009
as Self
The Muscle Market
1981
as Danny Duggan
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997
as Roland Tembo
Afternoon Off
1979
as Attendant in Art Gallery
Waterland
1992
as Henry Crick
Amistad
1997
as Holabird
Suite 16
1994
as Glover
Red Mercury
2005
as Gold Commander
A Crack in the Ice
1985
as Painter
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
2006
as Self
The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.
1999
as Self
A Box of Swan
1990
as Tony
Needle
1990
as Paula's Father
Number 27
1988
as Becket
Brute
1997
as Sincai
Sin Bin
1994
as Mitch
Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water'
2005
as Self
Clough: The Brian Clough Story
2009
as Narrator
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
2003
as Arthur (voice)
About Pete Postlethwaite
Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE (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 televisio… With 114 credits spanning from 1949 to 2011, Pete Postlethwaite has appeared in 89 films and 25 TV shows.
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Most Popular Pete Postlethwaite Movies
- Inception (2010) — as Maurice Fischer
- The Usual Suspects (1995) — as Kobayashi
- The Town (2010) — as Fergus "Fergie" Colm
- Alien³ (1992) — as David
- Clash of the Titans (2010) — as Spyros
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