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person_profile-Pete Postlethwaite

Pete Postlethwaite Died at age: 64

Actor | Producer

Date of Birth:

Feb 07, 1946

Country of birth:

UK

Died:

Jan 02, 2011

Biography of

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.

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Filmography of

Pete Postlethwaite

Found 76 Movies in total

Killing Bono

Karl ( Actor )

... 2011

... 2011

The Town

Fergus "Fergie" Colm ( Actor )

... 2010

Inception

Maurice Fischer ( Actor )

... 2010

Clash of the Titans

Spyros ( Actor )

... 2010

The Age of Stupid

The Archivist ( Actor )

... 2009

Solomon Kane

William Crowthorn ( Actor )

... 2009

... 2009

... 2009

Closing the Ring

Quinlan ( Actor )

... 2007

Ghost Son

Doc ( Actor )

... 2007

The Omen

Father Brennan ( Actor )

... 2006

Valley of the Heart's Delight

Albion Munson ( Actor )

... 2006

Æon Flux

Keeper ( Actor )

... 2005

The Constant Gardener

Lorbeer ( Actor )

... 2005

Dark Water

Veeck ( Actor )

... 2005

Red Mercury

Gold Commander ( Actor )

... 2005

The Limit

Gale ( Actor )

... 2004

Strange Bedfellows

Russell McKenzie (taxman) ( Actor )

... 2004

Cowboy Up

Reid Braxton ( Actor )

... 2002

Between Strangers

John ( Actor )

... 2002

Triggermen

Ben Cutler ( Actor )

... 2002

Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'

Kobayashi (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2002

The Shipping News

Tert Card ( Actor )

... 2001

Rat

Hubert Flynn ( Actor )

... 2000

When the Sky Falls

Martin Shaughnessy ( Actor )

... 2000

Animal Farm

Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice) ( Actor )

... 1999

Wayward Son

Ben Alexander ( Actor )

... 1999

Alice in Wonderland

Carpenter ( Actor )

... 1999

Lost for Words

Deric Longden ( Actor )

... 1999

... 1999

The Divine Ryans

Uncle Reg Ryan ( Actor )

... 1999

Among Giants

Ray ( Actor )

... 1998

Amistad

Holabird ( Actor )

... 1997

Bandyta

Sincai ( Actor )

... 1997

Sharpe: The Legend

Hakeswill ( Actor )

... 1997

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Roland Tembo ( Actor )

... 1997

The Serpent's Kiss

Thomas Smith ( Actor )

... 1997

... 1997

Brassed Off

Danny ( Actor )

... 1996

Romeo + Juliet

Father Laurence ( Actor )

... 1996

Crimetime

Sidney ( Actor )

... 1996

DragonHeart

Gilbert ( Actor )

... 1996

James and the Giant Peach

The Magic Man ( Actor )

... 1996

When Saturday Comes

Ken Jackson ( Actor )

... 1996

The Usual Suspects

Kobayashi ( Actor )

... 1995

Suite 16

Glover ( Actor )

... 1994

Sharpe's Enemy

Obadiah Hakeswill ( Actor )

... 1994

Sharpe's Company

Obadiah Hakeswill ( Actor )

... 1994

Sin Bin

Mitch ( Actor )

... 1994

In the Name of the Father

Giuseppe Conlon ( Actor )

... 1993

Anchoress

William Carpenter ( Actor )

... 1993

The Last of the Mohicans

Captain Beams ( Actor )

... 1992

Waterland

Henry Crick ( Actor )

... 1992

Alien³

David ( Actor )

... 1992

Split Second

Paulsen ( Actor )

... 1992

The Grass Arena

The Dipper ( Actor )

... 1992

They Never Slept

Panter ( Actor )

... 1991

Mel Gibson Goes Back to School

Player King (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1991

Hamlet

Player King ( Actor )

... 1990

Needle

Paula's Father ( Actor )

... 1990

Treasure Island

George Merry ( Actor )

... 1990

The Dressmaker

Jack ( Actor )

... 1988

... 1988

To Kill a Priest

Josef ( Actor )

... 1988

Tumbledown

Major (Rehabilitation Centre) ( Actor )

... 1988

A Private Function

Nuttol ( Actor )

... 1984

Fords on Water

Winston's Boss ( Actor )

... 1983

Strike: The Birth of Solidarity

Ireneusz Lesniak ( Actor )

... 1981

The Muscle Market

Danny Duggan ( Actor )

... 1981

Afternoon Off

Attendant in Art Gallery ( Actor )

... 1979

Doris and Doreen

Mr. Lomax ( Actor )

... 1978

The Duellists

Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard ( Actor )

... 1977

Occupy!

Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool ( Actor )

... 1976