Pete Postlethwaite
Acting
1946-02-07 · Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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
Killing Bono
2011 · Movie
Return to Jurassic Park
2011 · Movie
The Town
2010 · Movie
Inception
2010 · Movie
Clash of the Titans
2010 · Movie
Solomon Kane
2009 · Movie
The Age of Stupid
2009 · Movie
Tattoos: A Scarred History
2009 · Movie
Clough: The Brian Clough Story
2009 · Movie
Waving at Trains
2009 · Movie
Player
2008 · Movie
Criminal Justice
2008 · Series
Closing the Ring
2007 · Movie
Ghost Son
2007 · Movie
The Omen
2006 · Movie
Valley of the Heart's Delight
2006 · Movie
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
2006 · Movie
Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water'
2005 · Movie
Æon Flux
2005 · Movie
The Constant Gardener
2005 · Movie
Dark Water
2005 · Movie
Red Mercury
2005 · Movie
The Limit
2004 · Movie
Strange Bedfellows
2004 · Movie
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
2003 · Movie
Thora Hird Tribute
2003 · Movie
Cowboy Up
2002 · Movie
Between Strangers
2002 · Movie
Triggermen
2002 · Movie
The Shipping News
2001 · Movie
Richard & Judy
2001 · Series
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000 · Movie
The Sins
2000 · Series
Rat
2000 · Movie
When the Sky Falls
2000 · Movie
Animal Farm
1999 · Movie
Wayward Son
1999 · Movie
Butterfly Collectors
1999 · Series
Alice in Wonderland
1999 · Movie
Lost for Words
1999 · Movie
The Divine Ryans
1999 · Movie
The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.
1999 · Movie
Among Giants
1998 · Movie
Amistad
1997 · Movie
Brute
1997 · Movie
Sharpe: The Legend
1997 · Movie
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997 · Movie
The Serpent's Kiss
1997 · Movie
The Making of 'The Lost World'
1997 · Movie
Romeo + Juliet
1996 · Movie
Brassed Off
1996 · Movie
Crimetime
1996 · Movie
DragonHeart
1996 · Movie
James and the Giant Peach
1996 · Movie
When Saturday Comes
1996 · Movie
TFI Friday
1996 · Series
The Usual Suspects
1995 · Movie
Suite 16
1994 · Movie
Martin Chuzzlewit
1994 · Series
Sharpe's Enemy
1994 · Movie
Sharpe's Company
1994 · Movie
Sin Bin
1994 · Movie
Pie in the Sky
1994 · Series
In the Name of the Father
1993 · Movie
Anchoress
1993 · Movie
Sharpe
1993 · Series
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992 · Series
Between the Lines
1992 · Series
The Last of the Mohicans
1992 · Movie
Waterland
1992 · Movie
Alien³
1992 · Movie
Split Second
1992 · Movie
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1992 · Movie
The Grass Arena
1992 · Movie
They Never Slept
1991 · Movie
Hamlet
1990 · Movie
A Box of Swan
1990 · Movie
Kingdom Come
1990 · Movie
Needle
1990 · Movie
Debut on Two
1990 · Series
Treasure Island
1990 · Movie
El C.I.D.
1990 · Series
Zorro
1990 · Series
Tales of Sherwood Forest
1989 · Series
The Dressmaker
1988 · Movie
Distant Voices, Still Lives
1988 · Movie
Number 27
1988 · Movie
To Kill a Priest
1988 · Movie
Tumbledown
1988 · Movie
Coast to Coast
1987 · Movie
Casualty
1986 · Series
ScreenPlay
1986 · Series
Lovejoy
1986 · Series
A Crack in the Ice
1985 · Movie
Cyrano de Bergerac
1985 · Movie
Screen Two
1985 · Series
A Private Function
1984 · Movie
Mitch
1984 · Series
Fords on Water
1983 · Movie
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
1981 · Movie
The Muscle Market
1981 · Movie
Minder
1979 · Series
Afternoon Off
1979 · Movie
Doris and Doreen
1978 · Movie
Going Straight
1978 · Series
The Duellists
1977 · Movie
Plays for Britain
1976 · Series
The Paradise Run
1976 · Movie
Occupy!
1976 · Movie
Thwum
1975 · Movie
The Racer
1975 · Movie
Second City Firsts
1973 · Series
Last of the Summer Wine
1973 · Series
Play for Today
1970 · Series
The Oscars
1953 · Series
The BAFTA Awards
1949 · Series