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: Acting

Born: Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, 1946-02-07

Died: 2011-01-02

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1975	Thwum	Duffy	0
2	1976	Occupy!	Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool	0
3	1976	The Paradise Run	Soldier	0
4	1977	The Duellists	Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard	73
5	1978	Doris and Doreen	Mr. Lomax	0
6	1979	Afternoon Off	Attendant in Art Gallery	0
7	1981	The Muscle Market	Danny Duggan	70
8	1981	Strike: The Birth of Solidarity	Ireneusz Lesniak	0
9	1983	Fords on Water	Winston's Boss	0
10	1984	A Private Function	Nuttol	63
11	1985	Cyrano de Bergerac	Ragueneau	55
12	1987	Coast to Coast	Kecks McGuinness	60
13	1988	Tumbledown	Major (Rehabilitation Centre)	59
14	1988	To Kill a Priest	Josef	60
15	1988	Distant Voices, Still Lives	Father	68
16	1988	The Dressmaker	Jack	40
17	1990	Treasure Island	George Merry	65
18	1990	Needle	Paula's Father	100
19	1990	Kingdom Come	Keef	0
20	1990	A Box of Swan	Tony	0
21	1990	Hamlet	Player King	66
22	1991	Mel Gibson Goes Back to School	Player King (archive footage)	0
23	1991	They Never Slept	Panter	0
24	1992	The Grass Arena	The Dipper	80
25	1992	Split Second	Paulsen	59
26	1992	Alien³	David	64
27	1992	Waterland	Henry Crick	63
28	1992	The Last of the Mohicans	Captain Beams	74
29	1993	Anchoress	William Carpenter	60
30	1993	In the Name of the Father	Giuseppe Conlon	79
31	1994	Sin Bin	Mitch	0
32	1994	Sharpe's Company	Obadiah Hakeswill	68
33	1994	Sharpe's Enemy	Obadiah Hakeswill	69
34	1994	Suite 16	Glover	60
35	1995	The Usual Suspects	Kobayashi	82
36	1996	When Saturday Comes	Ken Jackson	59
37	1996	James and the Giant Peach	The Magic Man	66
38	1996	DragonHeart	Gilbert	65
39	1996	Crimetime	Sidney	41
40	1996	Romeo + Juliet	Father Laurence	68
41	1996	Brassed Off	Danny	70
42	1997	The Making of 'The Lost World'	Self	68
43	1997	The Serpent's Kiss	Thomas Smith	54
44	1997	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	Roland Tembo	65
45	1997	Sharpe: The Legend	Hakeswill	60
46	1997	Bandyta	Sincai	58
47	1997	Amistad	Holabird	70
48	1998	Among Giants	Ray	50
49	1999	The Divine Ryans	Uncle Reg Ryan	0
50	1999	The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.	Self	0
51	1999	Lost for Words	Deric Longden	70
52	1999	Alice in Wonderland	Carpenter	63
53	1999	Wayward Son	Ben Alexander	40
54	1999	Animal Farm	Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice)	57
55	2000	When the Sky Falls	Martin Shaughnessy	50
56	2000	Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings	Various Characters	66
57	2001	Rat	Hubert Flynn	61
58	2001	The Shipping News	Tert Card	64
59	2002	Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'	Kobayashi (archive footage)	70
60	2002	Triggermen	Ben Cutler	49
61	2002	Between Strangers	John	63
62	2002	Cowboy Up	Reid Braxton	62
63	2003	Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose	Arthur (voice)	0
64	2004	Strange Bedfellows	Russell McKenzie (taxman)	58
65	2004	The Limit	Gale	37
66	2005	Red Mercury	Gold Commander	40
67	2005	Dark Water	Veeck	57
68	2005	The Constant Gardener	Lorbeer	70
69	2005	Æon Flux	Keeper	56
70	2005	Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water'	Self	80
71	2006	Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener	Self	40
72	2006	Valley of the Heart's Delight	Albion Munson	70
73	2006	The Omen	Father Brennan	56
74	2007	Ghost Son	Doc	49
75	2007	Closing the Ring	Quinlan	61
76	2008	Player	Colin	0
77	2009	Waving at Trains	Douglas Warren	0
78	2009	Clough: The Brian Clough Story	Narrator	0
79	2009	Solomon Kane	William Crowthorn	60
80	2009	The Age of Stupid	The Archivist	65
81	2010	Clash of the Titans	Spyros	59
82	2010	Inception	Maurice Fischer	84
83	2010	The Town	Fergus "Fergie" Colm	72
84	2011	Return to Jurassic Park	Self	66
85	2011	Killing Bono	Karl	63

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1949	The BAFTA Awards	Self	100
2	1953	The Oscars	Self	70
3	1970	Play for Today	Danny Duggan	61
4	1973	Last of the Summer Wine	Man in Cafe	71
5	1978	Going Straight		77
6	1979	Minder	Jack Wragg	68
7	1979	Minder	Logie	68
8	1984	Mitch	Jack Frost	50
9	1985	Screen Two	Panter	68
10	1985	Screen Two	Kecks McGuinness	68
11	1985	Screen Two	The Dipper	68
12	1985	Screen Two	Mitch	68
13	1986	Lovejoy	Terence Sullivan	73
14	1986	Casualty	Ralph Peters	60
15	1986	Casualty	Hank	60
16	1989	Tales of Sherwood Forest	Eric	0
17	1990	Zorro	Bandit	71
18	1990	El C.I.D.	Vince	0
19	1992	Between the Lines	Ch. Supt. Jameson	56
20	1992	Shakespeare: The Animated Tales	Quince (voice)	68
21	1993	Sharpe	Obadiah Hakeswill	78
22	1994	Pie in the Sky	Kevin Tasker	84
23	1994	Martin Chuzzlewit	Tigg Montague	75
24	1999	Butterfly Collectors	John McKeown	0
25	2000	Sins	Len Green	5
26	2001	Richard & Judy	Self	29
27	2006	The One Show	Self - Guest	46
28	2008	Criminal Justice	Hooch	76