Pete Postlethwaite actor
- All known tv series 28
- Total known movies 85
Pete Postlethwaite (February 7, 1946 - January 2, 2011) was an English stage, film and television actor. After minor television appearances including in The Professionals, Postlethwaites 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, Postlethwaites most notable performance was as the villain Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill in the Sharpe television series and television movies opposite actor Sean Beans 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 Years Honours List. He died of pancreatic cancer.
Father Laurence
Movie 1996
Sincai
Movie 1997
Father Brennan
Movie 2006
Duffy
Movie 1975
The Archivist
Movie 2009
Self
Movie 2006
Maurice Fischer
Movie 2010
Father
Movie 1988
Ragueneau
Movie 1985
Jack
Movie 1988
Arthur (voice)
Movie 2003
Gale
Movie 2004
William Carpenter
Movie 1993
Albion Munson
Movie 2006
Self
Movie 2005
Uncle Reg Ryan
Movie 1999
Kecks McGuinness
Movie 1987
Deric Longden
Movie 1999
Panter
Movie 1991
The Dipper
Movie 1992
Danny Duggan
Movie 1981
Self
Movie 1999
Soldier
Movie 1976
Paula's Father
Movie 1990
Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
Movie 1976
Mr. Lomax
Movie 1978
Attendant in Art Gallery
Movie 1979
Keef
Movie 1990
Tony
Movie 1990
Douglas Warren
Movie 2009
Player King (archive footage)
Movie 1991
Major (Rehabilitation Centre)
Movie 1988
Colin
Movie 2008
Ben Alexander
Movie 1999
Self
Movie 1997
Kobayashi (archive footage)
Movie 2002
Narrator
Movie 2009
Self
Movie 2011
Obadiah Hakeswill
Tv 1993
Self - Guest
Tv 2006
Tv 1978
Self
Tv 2001
Man in Cafe
Tv 1973
Self
Tv 1953
Eric
Tv 1989
Jack Frost
Tv 1984
Tigg Montague
Tv 1994
Vince
Tv 1990
Self
Tv 1949
