Pete Postlethwaite
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.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
(Roland Tembo)
Romeo + Juliet
(Father Laurence)
Bandyta
(Sincai)
The Usual Suspects
(Kobayashi)
When Saturday Comes
(Ken Jackson)
The Omen
(Father Brennan)
Animal Farm
(Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice))
James and the Giant Peach
(The Magic Man)
The Constant Gardener
(Lorbeer)
The Shipping News
(Tert Card)
Thwum
(Duffy)
The Town
(Fergus "Fergie" Colm)
Triggermen
(Ben Cutler)
In the Name of the Father
(Giuseppe Conlon)
Amistad
(Holabird)
Alien³
(David)
Æon Flux
(Keeper)
The Age of Stupid
(The Archivist)
Strange Bedfellows
(Russell McKenzie (taxman))
DragonHeart
(Gilbert)
Dark Water
(Veeck)
Brassed Off
(Danny)
Split Second
(Paulsen)
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
(Self)
The Last of the Mohicans
(Captain Beams)
Inception
(Maurice Fischer)
Solomon Kane
(William Crowthorn)
Closing the Ring
(Quinlan)
Distant Voices, Still Lives
(Father)
Fords on Water
(Winston's Boss)
Between Strangers
(John)
To Kill a Priest
(Josef)
Red Mercury
(Gold Commander)
Suite 16
(Glover)
Clash of the Titans
(Spyros)
Ghost Son
(Doc)
Cyrano de Bergerac
(Ragueneau)
Killing Bono
(Karl)
Cowboy Up
(Reid Braxton)
Sharpe's Company
(Obadiah Hakeswill)
Sharpe's Enemy
(Obadiah Hakeswill)
A Private Function
(Nuttol)
Among Giants
(Ray)
Crimetime
(Sidney)
The Dressmaker
(Jack)
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
(Arthur (voice))
Waterland
(Henry Crick)
The Limit
(Gale)
Anchoress
(William Carpenter)
Valley of the Heart's Delight
(Albion Munson)
Rat
(Hubert Flynn)
Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water'
(Self)
The Divine Ryans
(Uncle Reg Ryan)
Coast to Coast
(Kecks McGuinness)
Lost for Words
(Deric Longden)
They Never Slept
(Panter)
The Grass Arena
(The Dipper)
The Muscle Market
(Danny Duggan)
The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.
(Self)
Sin Bin
(Mitch)
The Paradise Run
(Soldier)
Needle
(Paula's Father)
Occupy!
(Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool)
Doris and Doreen
(Mr. Lomax)
Afternoon Off
(Attendant in Art Gallery)
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
(Various Characters)
Kingdom Come
(Keef)
A Box of Swan
(Tony)
Hamlet
(Player King)
Sharpe: The Legend
(Hakeswill)
Waving at Trains
(Douglas Warren)
Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
(Player King (archive footage))
Alice in Wonderland
(Carpenter)
Tumbledown
(Major (Rehabilitation Centre))
Treasure Island
(George Merry)
Player
(Colin)
When the Sky Falls
(Martin Shaughnessy)
Wayward Son
(Ben Alexander)
The Making of 'The Lost World'
(Self)
Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'
(Kobayashi (archive footage))
Clough: The Brian Clough Story
(Narrator)
Return to Jurassic Park
(Self)
The Duellists
(Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard)
The Serpent's Kiss
(Thomas Smith)
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
(Ireneusz Lesniak)
Sharpe
(Obadiah Hakeswill)
The One Show
(Self - Guest)
Going Straight
Minder
(Jack Wragg)
Between the Lines
(Ch. Supt. Jameson)
Richard & Judy
(Self)
Last of the Summer Wine
(Man in Cafe)
Lovejoy
(Terence Sullivan)
Criminal Justice
(Hooch)
The Oscars
(Self)
Tales of Sherwood Forest
(Eric)
Sins
(Len Green)
Butterfly Collectors
(John McKeown)
Mitch
Casualty
(Ralph Peters)
Casualty
(Hank)
Minder
(Logie)
Pie in the Sky
(Kevin Tasker)
Martin Chuzzlewit
(Tigg Montague)
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
(Quince (voice))
Screen Two
(Panter)
El C.I.D.
(Vince)
Zorro
(Bandit)
Screen Two
(Kecks McGuinness)
Screen Two
(The Dipper)
Screen Two
(Mitch)
Play for Today
(Danny Duggan)
The BAFTA Awards
(Self)