Pete Postlethwaite
Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE (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.
Fotos
Películas (89)
Killing Bono
2011 · Karl
Return to Jurassic Park
2011 · Self
The Town
2010 · Fergus "Fergie" Colm
El Origen
2010 · Maurice Fischer
Clash of the Titans
2010 · Spyros
Solomon Kane
2009 · William Crowthorn
The Age of Stupid
2009 · The Archivist
Tattoos: A Scarred History
2009 · Self
Clough: The Brian Clough Story
2009 · Narrator
Waving at Trains
2009 · Douglas Warren
Player
2008 · Colin
Closing the Ring
2007 · Quinlan
Ghost Son
2007 · Doc
The Omen
2006 · Father Brennan
Valley of the Heart's Delight
2006 · Albion Munson
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
2006 · Self
Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water'
2005 · Self
Æon Flux
2005 · Keeper
The Constant Gardener
2005 · Lorbeer
Dark Water
2005 · Veeck
Red Mercury
2005 · Gold Commander
The Limit
2004 · Gale
Strange Bedfellows
2004 · Russell McKenzie (taxman)
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
2003 · Arthur (voice)
Thora Hird Tribute
2003 · Deric Longden (archive footage, uncredited)
Cowboy Up
2002 · Reid Braxton
Between Strangers
2002 · John
Triggermen
2002 · Ben Cutler
The Shipping News
2001 · Tert Card
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000 · Various Characters
Rat
2000 · Hubert Flynn
When the Sky Falls
2000 · Martin Shaughnessy
Animal Farm
1999 · Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones
Wayward Son
1999 · Ben Alexander
Alice in Wonderland
1999 · Carpenter
Lost for Words
1999 · Deric Longden
The Divine Ryans
1999 · Uncle Reg Ryan
The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.
1999 · Self
Among Giants
1998 · Ray
Amistad
1997 · Holabird
Brute
1997 · Sincai
Sharpe: The Legend
1997 · Hakeswill
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997 · Roland Tembo
The Serpent's Kiss
1997 · Thomas Smith
The Making of 'The Lost World'
1997 · Self
Romeo + Juliet
1996 · Father Laurence
Brassed Off
1996 · Danny
Crimetime
1996 · Sidney
DragonHeart
1996 · Gilbert
James and the Giant Peach
1996 · The Magic Man
When Saturday Comes
1996 · Ken Jackson
The Usual Suspects
1995 · Kobayashi
Suite 16
1994 · Glover
Sharpe's Enemy
1994 · Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill
Sharpe's Company
1994 · Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill
Sin Bin
1994 · Mitch
In the Name of the Father
1993 · Giuseppe Conlon
Anchoress
1993 · William Carpenter
The Last of the Mohicans
1992 · Captain Beams
Waterland
1992 · Henry Crick
Alien³
1992 · David
Split Second
1992 · Paulsen
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1992 · Quince (voice)
The Grass Arena
1991 · The Dipper
They Never Slept
1991 · Panter
Hamlet
1990 · Player King
A Box of Swan
1990 · Tony
Kingdom Come
1990 · Keef
Needle
1990 · Paula's Father
Treasure Island
1990 · George Merry
The Dressmaker
1988 · Jack
Distant Voices, Still Lives
1988 · Father
Number 27
1988 · Becket
To Kill a Priest
1988 · Josef
Tumbledown
1988 · Major (Rehabilitation Centre)
Coast to Coast
1987 · Kecks McGuinness
A Crack in the Ice
1985 · Painter
Cyrano de Bergerac
1985 · Ragueneau
A Private Function
1984 · Nuttol
Fords on Water
1983 · Winston's Boss
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
1981 · Ireneusz Lesniak
The Muscle Market
1981 · Danny Duggan
Afternoon Off
1979 · Attendant in Art Gallery
Doris and Doreen
1978 · Mr. Lomax
The Duellists
1977 · Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard
The Paradise Run
1976 · Soldier
Occupy!
1976 · Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
Thwum
1975 · Duffy
The Racer
1975 · Ecco
Series (28)
Criminal Justice
2008 · Hooch
Richard & Judy
2001 · Self
The Sins
2000 · Len Green
Butterfly Collectors
1999 · DI John McKeown
TFI Friday
1996
Martin Chuzzlewit
1994 · Montague Tigg
Pie in the Sky
1994 · Kevin Tasker
Sharpe
1993 · Obadiah Hakeswill
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992 · Quince (voice)
Between the Lines
1992 · Ch. Supt. Jameson
Debut on Two
1990 · Keef, Tony
El C.I.D.
1990 · Vince
Zorro
1990 · Bandit
Tales of Sherwood Forest
1989 · Eric
Casualty
1986 · Ralph Peters, Hank
ScreenPlay
1986 · Paula's Father
Boon
1986 · Steve McLaughlin
Lovejoy
1986 · Terence Sullivan
Screen Two
1985 · Panter, Kecks McGuinness, The Dipper, Mitch
Mitch
1984 · Jack Frost
Minder
1979 · Jack Wragg, Logie
Going Straight
1978 · Thomas Clifford Crowther
Plays for Britain
1976 · Soldier
Second City Firsts
1973 · Duffy
Last of the Summer Wine
1973 · Man in Cafe
Play for Today
1970 · Danny Duggan
The Oscars
1953 · Self
The BAFTA Awards
1949 · Self