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.
113 acting credits
Acting · 113
Casualty
1986
Inception
2010
Minder
1979
Play for Today
1970
Last of the Summer Wine
1973
Screen Two
1985
The Oscars
1953
Pie in the Sky
1994
Lovejoy
1986
The Usual Suspects
1995
Between the Lines
1992
Sharpe
1993
Richard & Judy
2001
Clash of the Titans
2010
Zorro
1990
Romeo + Juliet
1996
The Town
2010
Alien³
1992
Æon Flux
2005
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992
The Last of the Mohicans
1992
ScreenPlay
1986
Solomon Kane
2009
DragonHeart
1996
The BAFTA Awards
1949
Criminal Justice
2008
Martin Chuzzlewit
1994
The Omen
2006
The Constant Gardener
2005
The Sins
2000
Split Second
1992
Dark Water
2005
In the Name of the Father
1993
James and the Giant Peach
1996
Mitch
1984
The Duellists
1977
Alice in Wonderland
1999
Going Straight
1978
El C.I.D.
1990
Treasure Island
1990
Brassed Off
1996
Hamlet
1990
The Shipping News
2001
Closing the Ring
2007
Animal Farm
1999
Plays for Britain
1976
Sharpe's Enemy
1994
Sharpe: The Legend
1997
Tales of Sherwood Forest
1989
Rat
2000
Killing Bono
2011
Return to Jurassic Park
2011
Cowboy Up
2002
Waterland
1992
Tumbledown
1988
Strange Bedfellows
2004
Amistad
1997
Between Strangers
2002
Triggermen
2002
When Saturday Comes
1996
The Limit
2004
Coast to Coast
1987
Needle
1990
Sin Bin
1994
Distant Voices, Still Lives
1988
To Kill a Priest
1988
Among Giants
1998
Anchoress
1993
A Private Function
1984
Brute
1997
Crimetime
1996
The Age of Stupid
2009
Suite 16
1994
The Serpent's Kiss
1997
The Grass Arena
1992
Butterfly Collectors
1999
Sharpe's Company
1994
When the Sky Falls
2000
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997
They Never Slept
1991
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
Lost for Words
1999
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
2003
The Making of 'The Lost World'
1997
Tattoos: A Scarred History
2009
Cyrano de Bergerac
1985
Red Mercury
2005
The Dressmaker
1988
Wayward Son
1999
The Muscle Market
1981
Valley of the Heart's Delight
2006
Occupy!
1976
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
2006
Player
2008
Afternoon Off
1979
The Divine Ryans
1999
Doris and Doreen
1978
Fords on Water
1983
The Paradise Run
1976
Number 27
1988
Ghost Son
2007
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
1981
Clough: The Brian Clough Story
2009
The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.
1999
Thwum
1975
A Crack in the Ice
1985
Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water'
2005
Thora Hird Tribute
2003
The Racer
1975
Waving at Trains
2009
A Box of Swan
1990
Kingdom Come
1990
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1992