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.
Acted in
Killing Bono
2011
as Karl
Return to Jurassic Park
2011
as Self
The Town
2010
as Fergus "Fergie" Colm
Inception
2010
as Maurice Fischer
Clash of the Titans
2010
as Spyros
The Age of Stupid
2009
as The Archivist
Solomon Kane
2009
as William Crowthorn
Clough: The Brian Clough Story
2009
as Narrator
Waving at Trains
2009
as Douglas Warren
Player
2008
as Colin
Criminal Justice
2008
as Hooch
Closing the Ring
2007
as Quinlan
Ghost Son
2007
as Doc
The Omen
2006
as Father Brennan
Valley of the Heart's Delight
2006
as Albion Munson
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
2006
as Self
Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water'
2005
as Self
Æon Flux
2005
as Keeper
The Constant Gardener
2005
as Lorbeer
Dark Water
2005
as Veeck
Red Mercury
2005
as Gold Commander
The Limit
2004
as Gale
Strange Bedfellows
2004
as Russell McKenzie (taxman)
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
2003
as Arthur (voice)
Cowboy Up
2002
as Reid Braxton
Between Strangers
2002
as John
Triggermen
2002
as Ben Cutler
Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'
2002
as Kobayashi (archive footage)
The Shipping News
2001
as Tert Card
Rat
2001
as Hubert Flynn
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
as Various Characters
Sins
2000
as Len Green
When the Sky Falls
2000
as Martin Shaughnessy
Animal Farm
1999
as Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice)
Wayward Son
1999
as Ben Alexander
Butterfly Collectors
1999
as John McKeown
Alice in Wonderland
1999
as Carpenter
Lost for Words
1999
as Deric Longden
The Divine Ryans
1999
as Uncle Reg Ryan
The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.
1999
as Self
Among Giants
1998
as Ray
Amistad
1997
as Holabird
Bandyta
1997
as Sincai
Sharpe: The Legend
1997
as Hakeswill
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997
as Roland Tembo
The Serpent's Kiss
1997
as Thomas Smith
The Making of 'The Lost World'
1997
as Self
Romeo + Juliet
1996
as Father Laurence
Brassed Off
1996
as Danny
Crimetime
1996
as Sidney
DragonHeart
1996
as Gilbert
James and the Giant Peach
1996
as The Magic Man
When Saturday Comes
1996
as Ken Jackson
The Usual Suspects
1995
as Kobayashi
Suite 16
1994
as Glover
Martin Chuzzlewit
1994
as Tigg Montague
Sharpe's Enemy
1994
as Obadiah Hakeswill
Sharpe's Company
1994
as Obadiah Hakeswill
Sin Bin
1994
as Mitch
Pie in the Sky
1994
as Kevin Tasker
In the Name of the Father
1993
as Giuseppe Conlon
Anchoress
1993
as William Carpenter
Sharpe
1993
as Obadiah Hakeswill
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992
as Quince (voice)
Between the Lines
1992
The Last of the Mohicans
1992
as Captain Beams
Waterland
1992
as Henry Crick
Alien³
1992
as David
Split Second
1992
as Paulsen
The Grass Arena
1992
as The Dipper
They Never Slept
1991
as Panter
Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
1991
as Player King (archive footage)
Hamlet
1990
as Player King
A Box of Swan
1990
as Tony
Kingdom Come
1990
as Keef
Needle
1990
as Paula's Father
Treasure Island
1990
as George Merry
Tales of Sherwood Forest
1989
as Eric
The Dressmaker
1988
as Jack
Distant Voices, Still Lives
1988
as Father
To Kill a Priest
1988
as Josef
Tumbledown
1988
as Major (Rehabilitation Centre)
Coast to Coast
1987
as Kecks McGuinness
Casualty
1986
as Ralph Peters
Casualty
1986
as Hank
Lovejoy
1986
as Terence Sullivan
Cyrano de Bergerac
1985
as Ragueneau
Screen Two
1985
as Panter
A Private Function
1984
as Nuttol
Mitch
1984
Fords on Water
1983
as Winston's Boss
The Muscle Market
1981
as Danny Duggan
Minder
1979
as Jack Wragg
Minder
1979
as Logie
Afternoon Off
1979
as Attendant in Art Gallery
Doris and Doreen
1978
as Mr. Lomax
Going Straight
1978
The Duellists
1977
as Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard
The Paradise Run
1976
as Soldier
Occupy!
1976
as Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
Thwum
1975
as Duffy
Last of the Summer Wine
1973
as Man in Cafe
The Oscars
1953
as Self