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Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE ( 7 February 1946 – 2 January 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 on 2 January 2011. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pete Postlethwaite, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie | Killing Bono | Karl | 2011-04-01 |
Movie | Return to Jurassic Park | Self | 2011-02-05 |
Movie | Inception | Maurice Fischer | 2010-07-15 |
Movie | Clash of the Titans | Spyros | 2010-03-26 |
Movie | The Town | Fergus "Fergie" Colm | 2010-09-15 |
Movie | Waving at Trains | Douglas Warren | 2009-01-01 |
Movie | Solomon Kane | William Crowthorn | 2009-09-16 |
Movie | The Age of Stupid | The Archivist | 2009-09-21 |
Series | Criminal Justice | Hooch | 2008-06-30 |
Movie | Player | Colin | 2008-10-03 |
Movie | Ghost Son | Doc | 2007-04-05 |
Movie | Closing the Ring | Quinlan | 2007-09-14 |
Movie | Valley of the Heart's Delight | Albion Munson | 2006-04-24 |
Movie | The Omen | Father Brennan | 2006-06-06 |
Series | The One Show | Unknown | 2006-08-14 |
Movie | Red Mercury | Gold Commander | 2005-05-13 |
Movie | Dark Water | Veeck | 2005-07-08 |
Movie | The Constant Gardener | Lorbeer | 2005-08-31 |
Movie | Æon Flux | Keeper | 2005-11-30 |
Movie | Strange Bedfellows | Russell McKenzie (taxman) | 2004-04-22 |
Movie | The Limit | Gale | 2004-12-28 |
Movie | Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects' | Kobayashi (archive footage) | 2002-04-02 |
Movie | Triggermen | Ben Cutler | 2002-07-26 |
Movie | Between Strangers | John | 2002-08-30 |
Movie | Cowboy Up | Reid Braxton | 2002-09-03 |
Movie | Rat | Hubert Flynn | 2001-04-01 |
Series | Richard & Judy | Unknown | 2001-11-26 |
Movie | The Shipping News | Tert Card | 2001-12-18 |
Movie | When the Sky Falls | Martin Shaughnessy | 2000-06-26 |
Movie | Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings | 2000-12-25 | |
Series | Sins | Len Green | 2000-10-24 |
Movie | The Divine Ryans | Uncle Reg Ryan | 1999-01-01 |
Movie | Alice in Wonderland | Carpenter | 1999-02-28 |
Movie | Lost for Words | Deric Longden | 1999-01-03 |
Movie | Wayward Son | Ben Alexander | 1999-09-20 |
Movie | Animal Farm | Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice) | 1999-10-03 |
Movie | Among Giants | Ray | 1998-06-24 |
Movie | The Making of 'The Lost World' | Self | 1997-05-08 |
Movie | The Serpent's Kiss | Thomas Smith | 1997-05-14 |
Movie | The Lost World: Jurassic Park | Roland Tembo | 1997-05-23 |
Movie | Amistad | Holabird | 1997-12-10 |
Movie | Bandyta | Sincai | 1997-11-07 |
Movie | James and the Giant Peach | The Magic Man | 1996-04-12 |
Movie | When Saturday Comes | Ken Jackson | 1996-03-01 |
Movie | DragonHeart | Gilbert | 1996-05-31 |
Movie | Romeo + Juliet | Father Laurence | 1996-11-01 |
Movie | Brassed Off | Danny | 1996-11-01 |
Movie | Crimetime | Sidney | 1996-08-01 |
Movie | The Usual Suspects | Kobayashi | 1995-07-19 |
Movie | Sharpe's Company | Obadiah Hakeswill | 1994-05-25 |
Movie | Sin Bin | Mitch | 1994-05-18 |
Series | Martin Chuzzlewit | Tigg Montague | 1994-11-07 |
Movie | Sharpe's Enemy | Obadiah Hakeswill | 1994-06-01 |
Movie | Suite 16 | Glover | 1994-11-24 |
Series | Sharpe | Obadiah Hakeswill | 1993-05-05 |
Movie | Anchoress | William Carpenter | 1993-09-10 |
Movie | In the Name of the Father | Giuseppe Conlon | 1993-12-12 |
Movie | Split Second | Paulsen | 1992-05-01 |
Movie | The Grass Arena | The Dipper | 1992-01-19 |
Movie | Alien³ | David | 1992-05-22 |
Movie | Waterland | Henry Crick | 1992-08-21 |
Series | Between the Lines | Unknown | 1992-09-04 |
Movie | The Last of the Mohicans | Captain Beams | 1992-08-26 |
Movie | Treasure Island | George Merry | 1990-01-22 |
Movie | Hamlet | Player King | 1990-12-19 |
Movie | Needle | Paula's Father | 1990-09-12 |
Series | Tales of Sherwood Forest | Eric | 1989-06-11 |
Movie | Tumbledown | Major (Rehabilitation Centre) | 1988-05-29 |
Movie | To Kill a Priest | Josef | 1988-09-07 |
Movie | Distant Voices, Still Lives | Father | 1988-11-16 |
Movie | The Dressmaker | Jack | 1988-12-16 |
Movie | Coast to Coast | Kecks McGuinness | 1987-01-04 |
Series | Lovejoy | Unknown | 1986-01-10 |
Series | Casualty | Hank | 1986-09-06 |
Movie | Cyrano de Bergerac | Ragueneau | 1985-07-26 |
Series | Mitch | Unknown | 1984-08-31 |
Movie | A Private Function | Nuttol | 1984-11-09 |
Movie | Fords on Water | Winston's Boss | 1983-01-01 |
Movie | The Muscle Market | Danny Duggan | 1981-01-13 |
Movie | Afternoon Off | Attendant in Art Gallery | 1979-02-03 |
Series | Minder | Unknown | 1979-10-29 |
Series | Going Straight | Unknown | 1978-02-24 |
Movie | Doris and Doreen | Mr. Lomax | 1978-12-16 |
Movie | The Duellists | Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard | 1977-08-31 |
Movie | Occupy! | Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool | 1976-01-01 |
Movie | The Paradise Run | Soldier | 1976-04-05 |
Series | Last of the Summer Wine | Unknown | 1973-01-04 |
Series | The Oscars | Unknown | 1953-03-19 |