Pete Postlethwaite
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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
Credits
Inception (2010)
as Maurice Fischer
The Usual Suspects (1995)
as Kobayashi
The Town (2010)
as Fergus "Fergie" Colm
Romeo + Juliet (1996)
as Father Laurence
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
as Captain Beams
Alien³ (1992)
as David
Clash of the Titans (2010)
as Spyros
Æon Flux (2005)
as Keeper
Solomon Kane (2009)
as William Crowthorn
DragonHeart (1996)
as Gilbert
James and the Giant Peach (1996)
as The Magic Man
The Omen (2006)
as Father Brennan
The Constant Gardener (2005)
as Lorbeer
In the Name of the Father (1993)
as Giuseppe Conlon
Split Second (1992)
as Paulsen
Dark Water (2005)
as Veeck
Treasure Island (1990)
as George Merry
Alice in Wonderland (1999)
as Carpenter
Brassed Off (1996)
as Danny
Animal Farm (1999)
as Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones
Hamlet (1990)
as Player King
The Duellists (1977)
as Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard
Sharpe's Enemy (1994)
as Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill
Return to Jurassic Park (2011)
as Self
Closing the Ring (2007)
as Quinlan
The Shipping News (2001)
as Tert Card
The Limit (2004)
as Gale
Amistad (1997)
as Holabird
Killing Bono (2011)
as Karl
Cowboy Up (2002)
as Reid Braxton
Triggermen (2002)
as Ben Cutler
Among Giants (1998)
as Ray
Tumbledown (1988)
as Major (Rehabilitation Centre)
Wayward Son (1999)
as Ben Alexander
Ghost Son (2007)
as Doc
Waterland (1992)
as Henry Crick
Afternoon Off (1979)
as Attendant in Art Gallery
When Saturday Comes (1996)
as Ken Jackson
Red Mercury (2005)
as Gold Commander
Suite 16 (1994)
as Glover
Sharpe: The Legend (1997)
as Hakeswill
The Making of 'The Lost World' (1997)
as Self
Rat (2000)
as Hubert Flynn
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
as Roland Tembo
Between Strangers (2002)
as John
To Kill a Priest (1988)
as Josef
The Age of Stupid (2009)
as The Archivist
The Serpent's Kiss (1997)
as Thomas Smith
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener (2006)
as Self
Number 27 (1988)
as Becket
Sharpe's Company (1994)
as Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill
Strange Bedfellows (2004)
as Russell McKenzie (taxman)
Sin Bin (1994)
as Mitch
Needle (1990)
as Paula's Father
The Grass Arena (1992)
as The Dipper
A Private Function (1984)
as Nuttol
Tattoos: A Scarred History (2009)
as Self
Brute (1997)
as Sincai
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
as Father
When the Sky Falls (2000)
as Martin Shaughnessy
Crimetime (1996)
as Sidney
Occupy! (1976)
as Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
Anchoress (1993)
as William Carpenter
The Paradise Run (1976)
as Soldier
The Dressmaker (1988)
as Jack
They Never Slept (1991)
as Panter
Coast to Coast (1987)
as Kecks McGuinness
Kingdom Come (1990)
as Keef
Fords on Water (1983)
as Winston's Boss
Cyrano de Bergerac (1985)
as Ragueneau
Valley of the Heart's Delight (2006)
as Albion Munson
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings (2000)
as Various Characters
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1992)
as Quince (voice)
Thora Hird Tribute (2003)
as Deric Longden (archive footage, uncredited)
The Muscle Market (1981)
as Danny Duggan
The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr. (1999)
as Self
Doris and Doreen (1978)
as Mr. Lomax
Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water' (2005)
as Self
Lost for Words (1999)
as Deric Longden
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity (1981)
as Ireneusz Lesniak
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose (2003)
as Arthur (voice)
A Crack in the Ice (1985)
as Painter
Thwum (1975)
as Duffy
The Divine Ryans (1999)
as Uncle Reg Ryan
The Racer (1975)
as Ecco
A Box of Swan (1990)
as Tony
Waving at Trains (2009)
as Douglas Warren
Clough: The Brian Clough Story (2009)
as Narrator
Player (2008)
as Colin