Pete Postlethwaite
Acting
🎂 1946-02-07
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.
Cast credits(114)
Man in Cafe
1973
Danny Duggan
1970
Ralph Peters
1986
Hank
1986
Self
2001
Jack Wragg
1979
Logie
1979
Panter
1985
Kecks McGuinness
1985
The Dipper
1985
Mitch
1985
Self
1949
Self
1953
Ch. Supt. Jameson
1992
Maurice Fischer
2010
Bandit
1990
Self - Guest
2006
Quince (voice)
1992
Kevin Tasker
1994
Terence Sullivan
1986
Hooch
2008
Obadiah Hakeswill
1993
Jack Frost
1984
Kobayashi
1995
Fergus "Fergie" Colm
2010
Eric
1989
John McKeown
1999
Spyros
2010
Father Laurence
1996
David
1992
Captain Beams
1992
The Magic Man
1996
Giuseppe Conlon
1993
Father Brennan
2006
Keeper
2005
Gilbert
1996
Self
2011
William Crowthorn
2009
Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard
1977
Lorbeer
2005
Nuttol
1984
Carpenter
1999
Paulsen
1992
Tigg Montague
1994
Thomas Clifford Crowther
1978
Danny
1996
Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice)
1999
Quinlan
2007
Veeck
2005
George Merry
1990
Len Green
2000
Roland Tembo
1997
Player King
1990
Holabird
1997
Vince
1990
Tert Card
2001
Thomas Smith
1997
Karl
2011
Ken Jackson
1996
Father
1988
Gale
2004
Sidney
1996
Reid Braxton
2002
Sincai
1997
Henry Crick
1992
Major (Rehabilitation Centre)
1988
Martin Shaughnessy
2000
Hakeswill
1997
Obadiah Hakeswill
1994
Ben Alexander
1999
Doc
2007
John
2002
Hubert Flynn
2000
Obadiah Hakeswill
1994
Ben Cutler
2002
Ray
1998
Josef
1988
Self
1997
Russell McKenzie (taxman)
2004
Jack
1988
Arthur (voice)
2003
The Dipper
1992
Glover
1994
William Carpenter
1993
Self
2006
Various Characters
2000
Gold Commander
2005
Uncle Reg Ryan
1999
Kecks McGuinness
1987
Mr. Lomax
1978
Self
2009
Winston's Boss
1983
Player King (archive footage)
1991
Self
1999
Attendant in Art Gallery
1979
Paula's Father
1990
Kobayashi (archive footage)
2002
Self
2005
Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
1976
The Archivist
2009
Ireneusz Lesniak
1981
Tony
1990
Ragueneau
1985
Deric Longden
1999
Colin
2008
Duffy
1975
Danny Duggan
1981
Mitch
1994
Panter
1991
Soldier
1976
Albion Munson
2006
Keef
1990
Douglas Warren
2009
Narrator
2009