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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Killing Bono | Karl | 2011-04-01 |
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Return to Jurassic Park | Self | 2011-02-05 |
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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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Clash of the Titans | Spyros | 2010-03-26 |
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Clough: The Brian Clough Story | Narrator | 2009-03-25 |
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The Age of Stupid | The Archivist | 2009-09-21 |
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Solomon Kane | William Crowthorn | 2009-12-23 |
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Waving at Trains | Douglas Warren | 2009-01-01 |
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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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Valley of the Heart's Delight | Albion Munson | 2006-04-24 |
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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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Dark Water | Veeck | 2005-07-08 |
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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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Æon Flux | Keeper | 2005-11-30 |
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The Constant Gardener | Lorbeer | 2005-08-31 |
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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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Thora Hird Tribute | Deric Longden (archive footage, uncredited) | 2003-03-30 |
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Between Strangers | John | 2002-08-30 |
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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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Rat | Hubert Flynn | 2000-10-06 |
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Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings | Various Characters | 2000-12-25 |
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When the Sky Falls | Martin Shaughnessy | 2000-06-26 |
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Lost for Words | Deric Longden | 1999-01-03 |
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Animal Farm | Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice) | 1999-10-03 |
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Alice in Wonderland | Carpenter | 1999-02-28 |
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The Divine Ryans | Uncle Reg Ryan | 1999-01-01 |
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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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Among Giants | Ray | 1998-06-24 |
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park | Roland Tembo | 1997-05-23 |
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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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The Serpent's Kiss | Thomas Smith | 1997-05-14 |
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Amistad | Holabird | 1997-12-10 |
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Bandyta | Sincai | 1997-11-07 |
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Crimetime | Sidney | 1996-08-01 |
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James and the Giant Peach | The Magic Man | 1996-04-12 |
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When Saturday Comes | Ken Jackson | 1996-03-01 |
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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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Sharpe's Company | Obadiah Hakeswill | 1994-05-25 |
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Suite 16 | Glover | 1994-11-24 |
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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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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 Grass Arena | The Dipper | 1992-01-19 |
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Split Second | Paulsen | 1992-05-01 |
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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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Alien³ | David | 1992-05-22 |
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They Never Slept | Panter | 1991-01-20 |
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Hamlet | Player King | 1990-12-19 |
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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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Kingdom Come | Keef | 1990-10-02 |
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Treasure Island | George Merry | 1990-01-22 |
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Number 27 | Becket | 1988-10-23 |
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Tumbledown | Major (Rehabilitation Centre) | 1988-05-29 |
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The Dressmaker | Jack | 1988-12-16 |
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To Kill a Priest | Josef | 1988-09-07 |
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Distant Voices, Still Lives | Father | 1988-11-16 |
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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 Crack in the Ice | Painter | 1985-08-06 |
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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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Strike: The Birth of Solidarity | Ireneusz Lesniak | 1981-12-18 |
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The Muscle Market | Danny Duggan | 1981-01-13 |
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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 |
