Pete Postlethwaite

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1946-02-07 (65 years old)

Deathday

2011-01-02

Place of Birth

Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK

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 ...

Acting

1996

Romeo + Juliet

as Father Laurence

1997

Bandyta

as Sincai

1995

The Usual Suspects

as Kobayashi

1996

When Saturday Comes

as Ken Jackson

1999

Animal Farm

as Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice)

1996

2005

2001

The Shipping News

as Tert Card

1975

Thwum

as Duffy

2010

The Town

as Fergus "Fergie" Colm

2002

Triggermen

as Ben Cutler

1993

In the Name of the Father

as Giuseppe Conlon

1997

Amistad

as Holabird

1992

Alien³

as David

2005

Æon Flux

as Keeper

2009

The Age of Stupid

as The Archivist

1996

DragonHeart

as Gilbert

2004

Strange Bedfellows

as Russell McKenzie (taxman)

2005

Dark Water

as Veeck

1996

Brassed Off

as Danny

1992

Split Second

as Paulsen

1992

The Last of the Mohicans

as Captain Beams

2010

Inception

as Maurice Fischer

2009

Solomon Kane

as William Crowthorn

2007

1983

Fords on Water

as Winston's Boss

1988

2005

Red Mercury

as Gold Commander

1994

Suite 16

as Glover

2010

2007

Ghost Son

as Doc

1985

Cyrano de Bergerac

as Ragueneau

2011

2002

Cowboy Up

as Reid Braxton

1994

Sharpe's Company

as Obadiah Hakeswill

1994

Sharpe's Enemy

as Obadiah Hakeswill

1984

1998

1996

Crimetime

as Sidney

1988

1992

Waterland

as Henry Crick

2004

The Limit

as Gale

1993

Anchoress

as William Carpenter

2006

2000

Rat

as Hubert Flynn

1999

The Divine Ryans

as Uncle Reg Ryan

1987

Coast to Coast

as Kecks McGuinness

1999

Lost for Words

as Deric Longden

1991

1992

The Grass Arena

as The Dipper

1981

The Muscle Market

as Danny Duggan

1994

Sin Bin

as Mitch

1976

1990

Needle

as Paula's Father

1976

Occupy!

as Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool

1978

Doris and Doreen

as Mr. Lomax

1979

Afternoon Off

as Attendant in Art Gallery

2000

1990

1990

1990

Hamlet

as Player King

1997

Sharpe: The Legend

as Hakeswill

2009

Waving at Trains

as Douglas Warren

1991

Mel Gibson Goes Back to School

as Player King (archive footage)

1999

1988

Tumbledown

as Major (Rehabilitation Centre)

1990

Treasure Island

as George Merry

2008

Player

as Colin

2000

When the Sky Falls

as Martin Shaughnessy

1999

Wayward Son

as Ben Alexander

2002

Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'

as Kobayashi (archive footage)

1977

The Duellists

as Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard

1997

The Serpent's Kiss

as Thomas Smith

1981

2006

The Omen

as Father Brennan

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