Pete Postlethwaite
Acting
Born February 7, 1946 · Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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.
Films (88)
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
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
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
Rat
2000
When the Sky Falls
2000
Animal Farm
1999
Wayward Son
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
Romeo + Juliet
1996
Brassed Off
1996
Crimetime
1996
DragonHeart
1996
James and the Giant Peach
1996
When Saturday Comes
1996
The Usual Suspects
1995
Suite 16
1994
Sharpe's Enemy
1994
Sharpe's Company
1994
Sin Bin
1994
In the Name of the Father
1993
Anchoress
1993
The Last of the Mohicans
1992
Waterland
1992
Alien³
1992
Split Second
1992
The Grass Arena
1992
They Never Slept
1991
Hamlet
1990
A Box of Swan
1990
Kingdom Come
1990
Needle
1990
Treasure Island
1990
The Dressmaker
1988
Distant Voices, Still Lives
1988
Number 27
1988
To Kill a Priest
1988
Tumbledown
1988
Coast to Coast
1987
A Crack in the Ice
1985
Cyrano de Bergerac
1985
A Private Function
1984
Fords on Water
1983
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
1981
The Muscle Market
1981
Afternoon Off
1979
Doris and Doreen
1978
The Duellists
1977
The Paradise Run
1976
Occupy!
1976
Thwum
1975
The Racer
1975