Pete Postlethwaite
ActingAlso Known As
Peter William Postlethwaite, Peter Postlethwaite, Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE, Пит Постлетуэйт, 彼得·威廉·波斯尔思韦特
Biography
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.
Movies
(88 total)
Inception
as Maurice Fischer
The Usual Suspects
as Kobayashi
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
as Roland Tembo
Clash of the Titans
as Spyros
Alien³
as David
The Town
as Fergus "Fergie" Colm
Romeo + Juliet
as Father Laurence
The Last of the Mohicans
as Captain Beams
Æon Flux
as Keeper
DragonHeart
as Gilbert
In the Name of the Father
as Giuseppe Conlon
The Constant Gardener
as Lorbeer
Solomon Kane
as William Crowthorn
James and the Giant Peach
as The Magic Man
Amistad
as Holabird
The Omen
as Father Brennan
Dark Water
as Veeck
The Duellists
as Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard
Hamlet
as Player King
TV Shows
(27 total)
Zorro
as Bandit
Casualty
as Ralph Peters
Casualty
as Hank
The Oscars
as Self
Lovejoy
as Terence Sullivan
Last of the Summer Wine
as Man in Cafe
Sharpe
as Obadiah Hakeswill
Criminal Justice
as Hooch
Minder
as Jack Wragg
Minder
as Logie
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
as Quince (voice)
Going Straight
as Thomas Clifford Crowther
Pie in the Sky
as Kevin Tasker
Richard & Judy
as Self
Between the Lines
as Ch. Supt. Jameson
Play for Today
as Danny Duggan
Screen Two
as Panter
Screen Two
as Kecks McGuinness
Screen Two
as The Dipper
Screen Two
as Mitch