
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