Pete Postlethwaite
Age: N/A | From: Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
Person Details
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Aliases: Peter William Postlethwaite , Peter Postlethwaite , Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE , Пит Постлетуэйт , 彼得·威廉·波斯尔思韦特 , 皮特·波斯尔思韦特
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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Movie Involvements: 71
TV Involvements: 9
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
Casualty
(1986) Hank
Inception
(2010) Maurice Fischer
Sharpe
(1993) Obadiah Hakeswill
The Oscars
(1953) Self
The Town
(2010) Fergus "Fergie" Colm
Clash of the Titans
(2010) Spyros
Alien³
(1992) David
Romeo + Juliet
(1996) Father LaurenceActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Karl | |
| Self | ||
| 2010 | Fergus "Fergie" Colm | |
| Maurice Fischer | ||
| Spyros | ||
| 2009 | The Archivist | |
| William Crowthorn | ||
| Narrator | ||
| Douglas Warren | ||
| 2008 | Colin | |
| Hooch | ||
| 2007 | Quinlan | |
| Doc | ||
| 2006 | Self - Guest | |
| Father Brennan | ||
| Albion Munson | ||
| Self | ||
| 2005 | Self | |
| Keeper | ||
| Lorbeer | ||
| Veeck | ||
| Gold Commander | ||
| 2004 | Gale | |
| Russell McKenzie (taxman) | ||
| 2003 | Arthur (voice) | |
| 2002 | Reid Braxton | |
| John | ||
| Ben Cutler | ||
| Kobayashi (archive footage) | ||
| 2001 | Tert Card | |
| Self | ||
| Hubert Flynn | ||
| 2000 | N/A | |
| Len Green | ||
| Martin Shaughnessy | ||
| 1999 | Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice) | |
| Ben Alexander | ||
| John McKeown | ||
| Carpenter | ||
| Deric Longden | ||
| Uncle Reg Ryan | ||
| Self | ||
| 1998 | Ray | |
| 1997 | Holabird | |
| Sincai | ||
| Hakeswill | ||
| Roland Tembo | ||
| Thomas Smith | ||
| Self | ||
| 1996 | Father Laurence | |
| Danny | ||
| Sidney | ||
| Gilbert | ||
| The Magic Man | ||
| Ken Jackson | ||
| 1995 | Kobayashi | |
| 1994 | Glover | |
| Tigg Montague | ||
| Obadiah Hakeswill | ||
| Obadiah Hakeswill | ||
| Mitch | ||
| Kevin Tasker | ||
| 1993 | Giuseppe Conlon | |
| William Carpenter | ||
| Obadiah Hakeswill | ||
| 1992 | Quince (voice) | |
| N/A | ||
| Captain Beams | ||
| Henry Crick | ||
| David | ||
| Paulsen | ||
| The Dipper | ||
| 1991 | Panter | |
| Player King (archive footage) | ||
| 1990 | Player King | |
| Tony | ||
| Keef | ||
| Paula's Father | ||
| George Merry | ||
| 1989 | Eric | |
| 1988 | Jack | |
| Father | ||
| Josef | ||
| Major (Rehabilitation Centre) | ||
| 1987 | Kecks McGuinness | |
| 1986 | Ralph Peters | |
| Hank | ||
| Terence Sullivan | ||
| 1985 | Ragueneau | |
| 1984 | Nuttol | |
| N/A | ||
| 1983 | Winston's Boss | |
| 1981 | Danny Duggan | |
| 1979 | Jack Wragg | |
| Logie | ||
| Attendant in Art Gallery | ||
| 1978 | Mr. Lomax | |
| N/A | ||
| 1977 | Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard | |
| 1976 | Soldier | |
| Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool | ||
| 1975 | Duffy | |
| 1973 | Man in Cafe | |
| 1953 | Self | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
