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 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.

Filmography (116 Appearances)

Killing Bono

2011

Return to Jurassic Park

2011

The Town

2010

Inception

2010

Clash of the Titans

2010

Solomon Kane

2009

The Age of Stupid

2009

Tattoos: A Scarred History

2009

Clough: The Brian Clough Story

2009

Waving at Trains

2009

Player

2008

Criminal Justice

2008

Closing the Ring

2007

Ghost Son

2007

The Omen

2006

Valley of the Heart's Delight

2006

Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener

2006

Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water'

2005

Æon Flux

2005

The Constant Gardener

2005

Dark Water

2005

Red Mercury

2005

The Limit

2004

Strange Bedfellows

2004

Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose

2003

Thora Hird Tribute

2003

Cowboy Up

2002

Between Strangers

2002

Triggermen

2002

The Shipping News

2001

Richard & Judy

2001

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

2000

The Sins

2000

Rat

2000

When the Sky Falls

2000

Animal Farm

1999

Wayward Son

1999

Butterfly Collectors

1999

Alice in Wonderland

1999

Lost for Words

1999

The Divine Ryans

1999

The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.

1999

Among Giants

1998

Amistad

1997

Brute

1997

Sharpe: The Legend

1997

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

1997

The Serpent's Kiss

1997

The Making of 'The Lost World'

1997

Brassed Off

1996

Romeo + Juliet

1996

Crimetime

1996

DragonHeart

1996

James and the Giant Peach

1996

When Saturday Comes

1996

TFI Friday

1996

The Usual Suspects

1995

Suite 16

1994

Martin Chuzzlewit

1994

Sharpe's Enemy

1994

Sharpe's Company

1994

Sin Bin

1994

Pie in the Sky

1994

In the Name of the Father

1993

Anchoress

1993

Sharpe

1993

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

1992

Between the Lines

1992

The Last of the Mohicans

1992

Waterland

1992

Alien³

1992

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1992

Split Second

1992

The Grass Arena

1992

They Never Slept

1991

Hamlet

1990

A Box of Swan

1990

Kingdom Come

1990

Needle

1990

Debut on Two

1990

Treasure Island

1990

El C.I.D.

1990

Zorro

1990

Tales of Sherwood Forest

1989

The Dressmaker

1988

Distant Voices, Still Lives

1988

Number 27

1988

To Kill a Priest

1988

Tumbledown

1988

Coast to Coast

1987

Casualty

1986

ScreenPlay

1986

Lovejoy

1986

A Crack in the Ice

1985

Cyrano de Bergerac

1985

Screen Two

1985

A Private Function

1984

Mitch

1984

Fords on Water

1983

Strike: The Birth of Solidarity

1981

The Muscle Market

1981

Minder

1979

Afternoon Off

1979

Doris and Doreen

1978

Going Straight

1978

The Duellists

1977

Plays for Britain

1976

The Paradise Run

1976

Occupy!

1976

Thwum

1975

The Racer

1975 Debut

Second City Firsts

1973

Last of the Summer Wine

1973

Play for Today

1970

The Oscars

1953

The BAFTA Awards

1949
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