1946-02-07 Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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.
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Return to Jurassic Park | Self | 2011-02-05 |
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Killing Bono | Karl | 2011-04-01 |
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Clash of the Titans | Spyros | 2010-03-26 |
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The Town | Fergus "Fergie" Colm | 2010-09-15 |
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Inception | Maurice Fischer | 2010-07-15 |
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Waving at Trains | Douglas Warren | 2009-01-01 |
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Clough: The Brian Clough Story | Narrator | 2009-03-25 |
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Solomon Kane | William Crowthorn | 2009-09-16 |
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The Age of Stupid | The Archivist | 2009-09-21 |
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Tattoos: A Scarred History | Self | 2009-06-21 |
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Player | Colin | 2008-10-03 |
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Closing the Ring | Quinlan | 2007-09-14 |
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Ghost Son | Doc | 2007-04-05 |
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Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener | Self | 2006-01-10 |
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The Omen | Father Brennan | 2006-06-06 |
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Valley of the Heart's Delight | Albion Munson | 2006-04-24 |
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Dark Water | Veeck | 2005-07-08 |
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Æon Flux | Keeper | 2005-11-30 |
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The Constant Gardener | Lorbeer | 2005-08-31 |
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Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water' | Self | 2005-12-26 |
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Red Mercury | Gold Commander | 2005-05-13 |
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The Limit | Gale | 2004-12-28 |
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Strange Bedfellows | Russell McKenzie (taxman) | 2004-04-22 |
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Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose | Arthur (voice) | 2003-12-26 |
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Between Strangers | John | 2002-08-30 |
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Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects' | Kobayashi (archive footage) | 2002-04-02 |
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Triggermen | Ben Cutler | 2002-07-26 |
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Cowboy Up | Reid Braxton | 2002-09-03 |
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The Shipping News | Tert Card | 2001-12-18 |
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When the Sky Falls | Martin Shaughnessy | 2000-06-26 |
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Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings | Various Characters | 2000-12-25 |
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Rat | Hubert Flynn | 2000-10-06 |
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Lost for Words | Deric Longden | 1999-01-03 |
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The Divine Ryans | Uncle Reg Ryan | 1999-01-01 |
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Alice in Wonderland | Carpenter | 1999-02-28 |
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Wayward Son | Ben Alexander | 1999-09-20 |
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The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr. | Self | 1999-01-01 |
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Animal Farm | Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice) | 1999-10-03 |
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Among Giants | Ray | 1998-06-24 |
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The Serpent's Kiss | Thomas Smith | 1997-05-14 |
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Bandyta | Sincai | 1997-11-07 |
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park | Roland Tembo | 1997-05-23 |
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Amistad | Holabird | 1997-12-10 |
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Sharpe: The Legend | Hakeswill | 1997-10-13 |
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The Making of 'The Lost World' | Self | 1997-05-08 |
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Crimetime | Sidney | 1996-08-01 |
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When Saturday Comes | Ken Jackson | 1996-03-01 |
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James and the Giant Peach | The Magic Man | 1996-04-12 |
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Romeo + Juliet | Father Laurence | 1996-11-01 |
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Brassed Off | Danny | 1996-11-01 |
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DragonHeart | Gilbert | 1996-05-31 |
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The Usual Suspects | Kobayashi | 1995-07-19 |
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Sin Bin | Mitch | 1994-05-18 |
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Sharpe's Enemy | Obadiah Hakeswill | 1994-06-01 |
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Suite 16 | Glover | 1994-11-24 |
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Sharpe's Company | Obadiah Hakeswill | 1994-05-25 |
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In the Name of the Father | Giuseppe Conlon | 1993-12-12 |
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Anchoress | William Carpenter | 1993-09-10 |
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The Last of the Mohicans | Captain Beams | 1992-08-26 |
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Waterland | Henry Crick | 1992-08-21 |
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The Grass Arena | The Dipper | 1992-01-19 |
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Split Second | Paulsen | 1992-05-01 |
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Alien³ | David | 1992-05-22 |
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Mel Gibson Goes Back to School | Player King (archive footage) | 1991-01-01 |
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They Never Slept | Panter | 1991-01-20 |
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Treasure Island | George Merry | 1990-01-22 |
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Hamlet | Player King | 1990-12-19 |
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Kingdom Come | Keef | 1990-10-02 |
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A Box of Swan | Tony | 1990-10-09 |
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Needle | Paula's Father | 1990-09-12 |
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Distant Voices, Still Lives | Father | 1988-11-16 |
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Tumbledown | Major (Rehabilitation Centre) | 1988-05-29 |
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To Kill a Priest | Josef | 1988-09-07 |
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The Dressmaker | Jack | 1988-12-16 |
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Coast to Coast | Kecks McGuinness | 1987-01-04 |
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Cyrano de Bergerac | Ragueneau | 1985-07-26 |
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A Private Function | Nuttol | 1984-11-09 |
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Fords on Water | Winston's Boss | 1983-01-01 |
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The Muscle Market | Danny Duggan | 1981-01-13 |
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Strike: The Birth of Solidarity | Ireneusz Lesniak | 1981-12-18 |
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Afternoon Off | Attendant in Art Gallery | 1979-02-03 |
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Doris and Doreen | Mr. Lomax | 1978-12-16 |
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The Duellists | Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard | 1977-08-31 |
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The Paradise Run | Soldier | 1976-04-05 |
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Occupy! | Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool | 1976-01-01 |
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Thwum | Duffy | 1975-11-22 |
