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.

Known For

Inception Not in library

Inception

2010

The Usual Suspects Not in library

The Usual Suspects

1995

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

1997

Clash of the Titans Not in library

Clash of the Titans

2010

Alien³ Not in library

Alien³

1992

The Town Not in library

The Town

2010

Romeo + Juliet Not in library

Romeo + Juliet

1996

The Last of the Mohicans Not in library

The Last of the Mohicans

1992

Æon Flux Not in library

Æon Flux

2005

DragonHeart Not in library

DragonHeart

1996

Acting

2011 Killing Bono as Karl
2011 Return to Jurassic Park as Self
2010 The Town as Fergus "Fergie" Colm
2010 Inception as Maurice Fischer
2010 Clash of the Titans as Spyros
2009 The Age of Stupid as The Archivist
2009 Solomon Kane as William Crowthorn
2009 Waving at Trains as Douglas Warren
2009 Clough: The Brian Clough Story as Narrator
2009 Tattoos: A Scarred History as Self
2008 Player as Colin
2008 Criminal Justice as Hooch (5 episodes)
2007 Closing the Ring as Quinlan
2007 Ghost Son as Doc
2006 Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener as Self
2006 Valley of the Heart's Delight as Albion Munson
2006 The Omen as Father Brennan
2005 The Constant Gardener as Lorbeer
2005 Æon Flux as Keeper
2005 Dark Water as Veeck
2005 Red Mercury as Gold Commander
2005 Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water' as Self
2004 Strange Bedfellows as Russell McKenzie (taxman)
2004 The Limit as Gale
2003 Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose as Arthur (voice)
2003 Thora Hird Tribute as Deric Longden (archive footage, uncredited)
2002 Triggermen as Ben Cutler
2002 Between Strangers as John
2002 Cowboy Up as Reid Braxton
2001 The Shipping News as Tert Card
2001 Richard & Judy as Self (1 episode)
2000 Rat as Hubert Flynn
2000 Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings as Various Characters
2000 When the Sky Falls as Martin Shaughnessy
2000 The Sins as Len Green (7 episodes)
1999 Animal Farm as Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice)
1999 The Divine Ryans as Uncle Reg Ryan
1999 Lost for Words as Deric Longden
1999 The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr. as Self
1999 Alice in Wonderland as Carpenter
1999 Wayward Son as Ben Alexander
1999 Butterfly Collectors as DI John McKeown (2 episodes)
1998 Among Giants as Ray
1997 The Lost World: Jurassic Park as Roland Tembo In Library
1997 Brute as Sincai
1997 Amistad as Holabird
1997 Sharpe: The Legend as Hakeswill
1997 The Making of 'The Lost World' as Self
1997 The Serpent's Kiss as Thomas Smith
1996 Romeo + Juliet as Father Laurence
1996 When Saturday Comes as Ken Jackson
1996 James and the Giant Peach as The Magic Man
1996 DragonHeart as Gilbert
1996 Brassed Off as Danny
1996 Crimetime as Sidney
1995 The Usual Suspects as Kobayashi
1994 Suite 16 as Glover
1994 Sharpe's Company as Obadiah Hakeswill
1994 Sharpe's Enemy as Obadiah Hakeswill
1994 Sin Bin as Mitch
1994 Pie in the Sky as Kevin Tasker (1 episode)
1994 Martin Chuzzlewit as Montague Tigg (5 episodes)
1993 In the Name of the Father as Giuseppe Conlon
1993 Anchoress as William Carpenter
1993 Sharpe as Obadiah Hakeswill (2 episodes)
1992 Alien³ as David
1992 Split Second as Paulsen
1992 The Last of the Mohicans as Captain Beams
1992 Waterland as Henry Crick
1992 The Grass Arena as The Dipper
1992 Between the Lines as Ch. Supt. Jameson (1 episode)
1992 Shakespeare: The Animated Tales as Quince (voice) (1 episode)
1991 They Never Slept as Panter
1990 Needle as Paula's Father
1990 Kingdom Come as Keef
1990 A Box of Swan as Tony
1990 Hamlet as Player King
1990 Treasure Island as George Merry
1990 El C.I.D. as Vince (1 episode)
1990 Zorro as Bandit (1 episode)
1989 Tales of Sherwood Forest as Eric (7 episodes)
1988 Distant Voices, Still Lives as Father
1988 To Kill a Priest as Josef
1988 The Dressmaker as Jack
1988 Tumbledown as Major (Rehabilitation Centre)
1988 Number 27 as Becket
1987 Coast to Coast as Kecks McGuinness
1986 Lovejoy as Terence Sullivan (1 episode)
1986 Casualty as Ralph Peters (1 episode)
1986 Casualty as Hank (1 episode)
1985 Cyrano de Bergerac as Ragueneau
1985 A Crack in the Ice as Painter
1985 Screen Two as Panter (1 episode)
1985 Screen Two as Kecks McGuinness (1 episode)
1985 Screen Two as The Dipper (1 episode)
1985 Screen Two as Mitch (1 episode)
1984 A Private Function as Nuttol
1984 Mitch as Jack Frost (1 episode)
1983 Fords on Water as Winston's Boss
1981 The Muscle Market as Danny Duggan
1981 Strike: The Birth of Solidarity as Ireneusz Lesniak
1979 Afternoon Off as Attendant in Art Gallery
1979 Minder as Jack Wragg (1 episode)
1979 Minder as Logie (1 episode)
1978 Doris and Doreen as Mr. Lomax
1978 Going Straight as Thomas Clifford Crowther (1 episode)
1977 The Duellists as Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard
1976 The Paradise Run as Soldier
1976 Occupy! as Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
1975 Thwum as Duffy
1975 The Racer as Ecco
1973 Last of the Summer Wine as Man in Cafe (1 episode)
1970 Play for Today as Danny Duggan (1 episode)
1953 The Oscars as Self (1 episode)
1949 The BAFTA Awards as Self (1 episode)