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Pete Postlethwaite

Pete Postlethwaite

Actor · Born 1946-02-07 · Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK

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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 pan…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Inception (2010) — Maurice Fischer
  2. The Usual Suspects (1995) — Kobayashi
  3. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) — Roland Tembo
  4. Clash of the Titans (2010) — Spyros
  5. Alien³ (1992) — David
  6. The Town (2010) — Fergus "Fergie" Colm
  7. Romeo + Juliet (1996) — Father Laurence
  8. The Last of the Mohicans (1992) — Captain Beams
  9. Æon Flux (2005) — Keeper
  10. DragonHeart (1996) — Gilbert
  11. In the Name of the Father (1993) — Giuseppe Conlon
  12. The Constant Gardener (2005) — Lorbeer
  13. Solomon Kane (2009) — William Crowthorn
  14. James and the Giant Peach (1996) — The Magic Man
  15. Amistad (1997) — Holabird
  16. The Omen (2006) — Father Brennan
  17. Dark Water (2005) — Veeck
  18. Return to Jurassic Park (2011) — Self
  19. The Duellists (1977) — Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard
  20. Hamlet (1990) — Player King
  21. The Shipping News (2001) — Tert Card
  22. Alice in Wonderland (1999) — Carpenter
  23. Split Second (1992) — Paulsen
  24. Brassed Off (1996) — Danny
  25. Zorro (1990) — Bandit
  26. Animal Farm (1999) — Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones
  27. Treasure Island (1990) — George Merry
  28. Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) — Father
  29. Killing Bono (2011) — Karl
  30. Closing the Ring (2007) — Quinlan
  31. Casualty (1986) — Ralph Peters
  32. The Oscars (1953) — Self
  33. The Age of Stupid (2009) — The Archivist
  34. A Private Function (1984) — Nuttol
  35. Lovejoy (1986) — Terence Sullivan
  36. Last of the Summer Wine (1973) — Man in Cafe
  37. Waterland (1992) — Henry Crick
  38. Sharpe's Company (1994) — Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill
  39. Sharpe's Enemy (1994) — Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill
  40. Sharpe (1993) — Obadiah Hakeswill