Pete Postlethwaite
Acting
🎂 1946-02-07
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.
Cast credits(116)
Maurice Fischer
2010
Self - Guest
2006
Danny Duggan
1970
Ralph Peters
1986
Hank
1986
Jack Wragg
1979
Logie
1979
Kobayashi
1995
Man in Cafe
1973
Fergus "Fergie" Colm
2010
Self
1953
David
1992
Spyros
2010
Kevin Tasker
1994
Panter
1985
Kecks McGuinness
1985
The Dipper
1985
Mitch
1985
Captain Beams
1992
Ch. Supt. Jameson
1992
Obadiah Hakeswill
1993
Father Laurence
1996
Self
2001
Terence Sullivan
1986
Keeper
2005
Self
1949
Lorbeer
2005
Giuseppe Conlon
1993
The Magic Man
1996
Gilbert
1996
Father Brennan
2006
Deric Longden (archive footage, uncredited)
2003
Bandit
1990
Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice)
1999
Paulsen
1992
William Crowthorn
2009
Carpenter
1999
Ireneusz Lesniak
1981
Veeck
2005
Quince (voice)
1992
Self
2011
Tert Card
2001
Quinlan
2007
George Merry
1990
Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard
1977
Paula's Father
1990
Danny
1996
Player King
1990
Father
1988
Hakeswill
1997
Hooch
2008
Len Green
2000
Karl
2011
John
2002
Becket
1988
Henry Crick
1992
Ragueneau
1985
Josef
1988
Nuttol
1984
Kecks McGuinness
1987
Deric Longden
1999
Ben Cutler
2002
Ken Jackson
1996
Gold Commander
2005
Russell McKenzie (taxman)
2004
Jack Frost
1984
Tigg Montague
1994
Player King (archive footage)
1991
Obadiah Hakeswill
1994
Obadiah Hakeswill
1994
Attendant in Art Gallery
1979
The Dipper
1992
Martin Shaughnessy
2000
Uncle Reg Ryan
1999
Soldier
1976
Various Characters
2000
Self
2009
Winston's Boss
1983
Glover
1994
Sidney
1996
Sincai
1997
Doc
2007
Thomas Clifford Crowther
1978
Ben Alexander
1999
Thomas Smith
1997
Kobayashi (archive footage)
2002
Gale
2004
Self
1997
Ray
1998
Narrator
2009
Roland Tembo
1997
Self
2006
Holabird
1997
Reid Braxton
2002
Hubert Flynn
2000
Vince
1990
Duffy
1975
Mitch
1994
Tony
1990
William Carpenter
1993
Danny Duggan
1981
Jack
1988
Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
1976
The Archivist
2009
Self
1999
John McKeown
1999
Mr. Lomax
1978
Self
2005
Eric
1989
Panter
1991
Keef
1990
Major (Rehabilitation Centre)
1988
Albion Munson
2006
Colin
2008
Arthur (voice)
2003
Douglas Warren
2009