Pete Postlethwaite
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.
Known For
Roland Tembo
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Father Laurence
Romeo + Juliet
Sincai
Bandyta
Kobayashi
The Usual Suspects
Ken Jackson
When Saturday Comes
Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice)
Animal Farm
The Magic Man
James and the Giant Peach
Lorbeer
The Constant Gardener
Tert Card
The Shipping News
Duffy
Thwum
Fergus "Fergie" Colm
The Town
Ben Cutler
Triggermen
Giuseppe Conlon
In the Name of the Father
Holabird
Amistad
David
Alien³
Keeper
Æon Flux
The Archivist
The Age of Stupid
Gilbert
DragonHeart
Russell McKenzie (taxman)
Strange Bedfellows
Veeck
Dark Water
Danny
Brassed Off
Paulsen
Split Second
Captain Beams
The Last of the Mohicans
Self
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
Maurice Fischer
Inception
William Crowthorn
Solomon Kane
Quinlan
Closing the Ring
Father
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Winston's Boss
Fords on Water
John
Between Strangers
Josef
To Kill a Priest
Gold Commander
Red Mercury
Glover
Suite 16
Spyros
Clash of the Titans
Doc
Ghost Son
Ragueneau
Cyrano de Bergerac
Karl
Killing Bono
Reid Braxton
Cowboy Up
Obadiah Hakeswill
Sharpe's Company
Obadiah Hakeswill
Sharpe's Enemy
Nuttol
A Private Function
Ray
Among Giants
Sidney
Crimetime
Jack
The Dressmaker
Arthur (voice)
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
Henry Crick
Waterland
Gale
The Limit
William Carpenter
Anchoress
Albion Munson
Valley of the Heart's Delight
Hubert Flynn
Rat
Self
Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water'
Uncle Reg Ryan
The Divine Ryans
Kecks McGuinness
Coast to Coast
Deric Longden
Lost for Words
Panter
They Never Slept
The Dipper
The Grass Arena
Danny Duggan
The Muscle Market
Self
The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.
Mitch
Sin Bin
Soldier
The Paradise Run
Paula's Father
Needle
Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
Occupy!
Mr. Lomax
Doris and Doreen
Attendant in Art Gallery
Afternoon Off
Various Characters
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Keef
Kingdom Come
Tony
A Box of Swan
Player King
Hamlet
Hakeswill
Sharpe: The Legend
Douglas Warren
Waving at Trains
Carpenter
Alice in Wonderland
Major (Rehabilitation Centre)
Tumbledown
George Merry
Treasure Island
Colin
Player
Martin Shaughnessy
When the Sky Falls
Ben Alexander
Wayward Son
Self
The Making of 'The Lost World'
Narrator
Clough: The Brian Clough Story
Self
Return to Jurassic Park
Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard
The Duellists
Thomas Smith
The Serpent's Kiss
Ireneusz Lesniak
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
Father Brennan
The Omen
Self
Tattoos: A Scarred History
Becket
Number 27
Deric Longden (archive footage, uncredited)
Thora Hird Tribute
Painter
A Crack in the Ice
Ecco
The Racer
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
88
Gender
Male
Birthday
1946-02-07
Place of Birth
Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
Also Known As
Peter William Postlethwaite