Peter William Postlethwaite
Peter Postlethwaite
Pete Postlethwaite 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.
Year | Movie | Character |
---|---|---|
2009 | The Age of Stupid | as The Archivist |
1996 | Brassed Off | as Danny |
1998 | Among Giants | as Ray |
2006 | Valley of the Heart's Delight | as Albion Munson |
1981 | The Muscle Market | as Danny Duggan |
2009 | Waving at Trains | as Douglas Warren |
1994 | Suite 16 | as Glover |
2005 | Red Mercury | as Gold Commander |
1994 | Sin Bin | as Mitch |
2008 | Player | as Colin |
1993 | In the Name of the Father | as Giuseppe Conlon |
2009 | Solomon Kane | as William Crowthorn |
1988 | Distant Voices, Still Lives | as Father |
1996 | Crimetime | as Sidney |
1999 | Lost for Words | as Deric Longden |
1992 | The Grass Arena | as The Dipper |
1999 | Wayward Son | as Ben Alexander |
2009 | Clough: The Brian Clough Story | as Narrator |
1975 | Thwum | as Duffy |
1997 | The Lost World: Jurassic Park | as Roland Tembo |
2004 | Strange Bedfellows | as Russell McKenzie (taxman) |
2007 | Closing the Ring | as Quinlan |
2007 | Ghost Son | as Doc |
2011 | Killing Bono | as Karl |
1988 | The Dressmaker | as Jack |
1999 | The Divine Ryans | as Uncle Reg Ryan |
1990 | Needle | as Paula's Father |
1978 | Doris and Doreen | as Mr. Lomax |
2000 | When the Sky Falls | as Martin Shaughnessy |
1996 | When Saturday Comes | as Ken Jackson |
1996 | James and the Giant Peach | as The Magic Man |
1992 | Alien³ | as David Postlethwaite |
2002 | Between Strangers | as John |
1985 | Cyrano de Bergerac | as Ragueneau |
1994 | Sharpe's Enemy | as Hakeswill |
2004 | Gone Dark / The Limit | as Gale Carmody |
1993 | Anchoress | as William Carpenter |
2006 | The Omen | as Father Brennan |
2005 | The Constant Gardener | as Lorbeer |
2001 | The Shipping News | as Tert Card |
1996 | DragonHeart | as Gilbert |
2005 | Dark Water | as Veeck |
1994 | Sharpe's Company | as Hakeswill |
1999 | Animal Farm | as Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice) |
1997 | The Serpent's Kiss | as Thomas Smith |
1991 | They Never Slept | as Panter |
1997 | Dragonheart: 2 Legendary Tales | as Brother Gilbert of Glockenspur |
1997 | Bandyta | as Sincai |
1995 | The Usual Suspects | as Kobayashi |
2002 | Triggermen | as Ben Cutler |
2005 | Æon Flux | as Keeper |
1992 | Split Second | as Paulsen |
1988 | To Kill a Priest | as Josef |
2001 | Rat | as Hubert Flynn |
1987 | Coast to Coast | as Kecks McGuinness |
2005 | Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water' | as Self |
1997 | Amistad | as Holabird |
1992 | Waterland | as Henry Crick |
1979 | Afternoon Off | as Attendant in Art Gallery |
2010 | Clash of the Titans | as Spyros |
1976 | Occupy! | as Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool |
2010 | The Town | as Fergus "Fergie" Colm |
1976 | The Paradise Run | as Soldier |
1990 | Treasure Island | as George Merry |
1997 | Making the 'Lost World' | as Himself |
1996 | Romeo + Juliet | as Father Laurence |
2010 | Inception | as Maurice Fischer |
2002 | Cowboy Up | as Reid Braxton |
2011 | Return to Jurassic Park | as Self |
1984 | A Private Function | as Nuttol |
1992 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | as Quince |
1999 | The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr. | as Self |
1988 | Tumbledown | as Major (Rehabilitation Centre) |
2002 | Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects' | as Kobayashi (archive footage) |
1983 | Fords on Water | as Winston's Boss |
1992 | The Last of the Mohicans | as Captain Beams |
1999 | Alice in Wonderland | as Carpenter |
1990 | Hamlet | as Player King |
1977 | The Duellists | as Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard |
2000 | Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings |
Photo | Name | Department |
---|---|---|
1978 | Going Straight (1 episode) | |
1992 | Between the Lines (1 episode) | |
1979 | Minder (1 episode) | as Jack Wragg |
1973 | Last of the Summer Wine (1 episode) | as Man in Cafe |
1986 | Lovejoy (1 episode) | |
2008 | Criminal Justice (5 episode) | as Hooch |
2006 | The One Show (1 episode) | as Self - Guest |
2001 | Richard & Judy (1 episode) | as Self |
1989 | Tales of Sherwood Forest (7 episode) | as Eric |
1953 | The Oscars (1 episode) | as Self |
2000 | The Sins (7 episode) | as Len Green |
1993 | Sharpe (2 episode) | as Obadiah Hakeswill |
1984 | Mitch (1 episode) | |
1986 | Casualty (1 episode) | as Ralph Peters |
1986 | Casualty (1 episode) | as Hank |
1994 | Martin Chuzzlewit (6 episode) | as Tigg Montague |
1992 | Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1 episode) | |
1999 | Butterfly Collectors (2 episode) | as John McKeown |
1979 | Minder (1 episode) | as Logie |
1994 | Pie in the Sky (1 episode) | as Kevin Tasker |