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 · 106
Play for Today
1970 · Danny Duggan
Inception
2010 · Maurice Fischer
Casualty
1986 · Ralph Peters
Minder
1979 · Jack Wragg
Richard & Judy
2001 · Self
Screen Two
1985 · Panter
The Oscars
1953 · Self
Last of the Summer Wine
1973 · Man in Cafe
The Usual Suspects
1995 · Kobayashi
TFI Friday
1996
Alien³
1992 · David
The Town
2010 · Fergus "Fergie" Colm
Lovejoy
1986 · Terence Sullivan
Zorro
1990 · Bandit
Sharpe
1993 · Obadiah Hakeswill
Pie in the Sky
1994 · Kevin Tasker
ScreenPlay
1986 · Paula's Father
Clash of the Titans
2010 · Spyros
Martin Chuzzlewit
1994 · Montague Tigg
The BAFTA Awards
1949 · Self
Romeo + Juliet
1996 · Father Laurence
The Last of the Mohicans
1992 · Captain Beams
Between the Lines
1992 · Ch. Supt. Jameson
Æon Flux
2005 · Keeper
The Omen
2006 · Father Brennan
Criminal Justice
2008 · Hooch
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992 · Quince (voice)
DragonHeart
1996 · Gilbert
James and the Giant Peach
1996 · The Magic Man
In the Name of the Father
1993 · Giuseppe Conlon
Solomon Kane
2009 · William Crowthorn
Dark Water
2005 · Veeck
The Constant Gardener
2005 · Lorbeer
Mitch
1984 · Jack Frost
Alice in Wonderland
1999 · Carpenter
Treasure Island
1990 · George Merry
Split Second
1992 · Paulsen
The Duellists
1977 · Orderly shaving Gen. T...
Animal Farm
1999 · Benjamin (voice) / Far...
Plays for Britain
1976 · Soldier
Hamlet
1990 · Player King
The Sins
2000 · Len Green
Return to Jurassic Park
2011 · Self
Brassed Off
1996 · Danny
Going Straight
1978 · Thomas Clifford Crowth...
Occupy!
1976 · Player in Everyman The...
The Making of 'The Lost World'
1997 · Self
Tattoos: A Scarred History
2009 · Self
The Shipping News
2001 · Tert Card
Closing the Ring
2007 · Quinlan
Sharpe: The Legend
1997 · Hakeswill
Sharpe's Company
1994 · Sergeant Obadiah Hakes...
A Private Function
1984 · Nuttol
Triggermen
2002 · Ben Cutler
Distant Voices, Still Lives
1988 · Father
Waterland
1992 · Henry Crick
Valley of the Heart's Delight
2006 · Albion Munson
Anchoress
1993 · William Carpenter
The Age of Stupid
2009 · The Archivist
Sharpe's Enemy
1994 · Sergeant Obadiah Hakes...
When the Sky Falls
2000 · Martin Shaughnessy
To Kill a Priest
1988 · Josef
Between Strangers
2002 · John
When Saturday Comes
1996 · Ken Jackson
Butterfly Collectors
1999 · DI John McKeown
Killing Bono
2011 · Karl
Strange Bedfellows
2004 · Russell McKenzie (taxm...
Tumbledown
1988 · Major (Rehabilitation...
Amistad
1997 · Holabird
The Serpent's Kiss
1997 · Thomas Smith
Rat
2000 · Hubert Flynn
The Limit
2004 · Gale
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000 · Various Characters
Wayward Son
1999 · Ben Alexander
Cowboy Up
2002 · Reid Braxton
Crimetime
1996 · Sidney
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997 · Roland Tembo
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1992 · Quince (voice)
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
1981 · Ireneusz Lesniak
Among Giants
1998 · Ray
Afternoon Off
1979 · Attendant in Art Galle...
Brute
1997 · Sincai
The Dressmaker
1988 · Jack
Thora Hird Tribute
2003 · Deric Longden (archive...
Thwum
1975 · Duffy
Clough: The Brian Clough Story
2009 · Narrator
A Crack in the Ice
1985 · Painter
Red Mercury
2005 · Gold Commander
The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.
1999 · Self
Needle
1990 · Paula's Father
Number 27
1988 · Becket
The Paradise Run
1976 · Soldier
Suite 16
1994 · Glover
They Never Slept
1991 · Panter
Sin Bin
1994 · Mitch
Lost for Words
1999 · Deric Longden
Ghost Son
2007 · Doc
The Divine Ryans
1999 · Uncle Reg Ryan
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
2006 · Self
Doris and Doreen
1978 · Mr. Lomax
The Racer
1975 · Ecco
The Grass Arena
1992 · The Dipper
The Muscle Market
1981 · Danny Duggan
Fords on Water
1983 · Winston's Boss
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
2003 · Arthur (voice)
Coast to Coast
1987 · Kecks McGuinness