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Pete Postlethwaite
Actor, Producer
Died January 2, 2011 (65 years)
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 on 2 January 2011.
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Filmography
| 2019 | An Accidental Studio · as actor |
| 2011 | Killing Bono · as Karl |
| 2010 | Clash of the Titans · as Spyros |
| 2010 | The Town · as Fergus 'Fergie' Colm |
| 2010 | Inception · as Maurice Fischer |
| 2009 | The Age of Stupid · as The Archivist |
| 2009 | Solomon Kane · as William Crowthorn |
| 2009 | Clough · as Narrator |
| 2008 | Criminal Justice (TV Series) · as Hooch |
| 2007 | Closing the Ring · as Quinlan |
| 2007 | Ghost Son · as Doc |
| 2006 | The Omen · as Father Brennan |
| 2006 | Valley of the Heart's Delight · as Albion Munson |
| 2005 | The Constant Gardener · as Lorbeer |
| 2005 | Aeon Flux · as Keeper |
| 2005 | Red Mercury · as Gold Commander |
| 2005 | Dark Water · as Veeck |
| 2004 | Strange Bedfellows · as Russell McKenzie (taxman) |
| 2004 | The Limit · as Gale Carmody |
| 2003 | Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion (TV Series) · as Charles Burchell |
| 2002 | Triggermen · as Ben Cutler |
| 2002 | Between Strangers · as John |
| 2001 | Cowboy Up · as Reid Braxton |
| 2001 | The Shipping News · as Tert Card |
| 2000 | When the Sky Falls · as Martin Shaughnessy |
| 2000 | Rat · as Hubert Flynn |
| 2000 | Victoria Wood: With All the Trimmings · as Unknown |
| 2000 | The Sins (TV Series) · as Len Green |
| 1999 | Animal Farm · as Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice) |
| 1999 | Alice in Wonderland · as Carpenter |
| 1999 | The Divine Ryans · as Uncle Reg Ryan |
| 1999 | Lost for Words · as Deric Longden |
| 1998 | Among Giants · as Ray |
| 1997 | The Lost World: Jurassic Park · as Roland Tembo |
| 1997 | Bandyta · as Sincai |
| 1997 | Amistad · as Holabird |
| 1997 | The Serpent's Kiss · as Thomas Smith |
| 1997 | Sharpe: The Legend · as Hakeswill |
| 1996 | Romeo + Juliet · as Father Laurence |
| 1996 | DragonHeart · as Gilbert of Glockenspur |
| 1996 | Brassed Off · as Danny |
| 1996 | James and the Giant Peach · as Narrator |
| 1996 | Crimetime · as Sidney |
| 1996 | When Saturday Comes · as Ken Jackson |
| 1995 | The Usual Suspects · as Kobayashi |
| 1994 | Suite 16 · as Glover |
| 1994 | Sin Bin · as Mitch |
| 1994 | Martin Chuzzlewit (TV Series) · as Tigg Montague |
| 1994 | Pie in the Sky (TV Series) · as Kevin Tasker |
| 1993 | Anchoress · as William Carpenter |
| 1993 | Sharpe (TV Series) · as Sgt. Obadiah Hakeswill |
| 1993 | In the Name of the Father · as Giuseppe Conlon |
| 1992 | Alien³ · as David Postlethwaite |
| 1992 | The Last of the Mohicans · as Captain Beams |
| 1992 | Split Second · as Paulsen |
| 1992 | Waterland · as Henry Crick |
| 1992 | Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1992 | Between The Lines (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1992 | A Midsummer Night's Dream · as Quince |
| 1990 | Hamlet · as Player King |
| 1990 | Zorro (TV Series) · as Bandit |
| 1990 | Treasure Island · as George Merry |
| 1988 | Distant Voices, Still Lives · as Father |
| 1988 | To Kill A Priest · as Josef |
| 1988 | Tumbledown · as Major (Rehabilitation Centre) |
| 1988 | The Dressmaker · as Jack |
| 1986 | Casualty (TV Series) · as Ralph Peters |
| 1986 | Lovejoy (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1986 | Boon (TV Series) · as Steve McLaughlin |
| 1985 | Victoria Wood As Seen On TV (TV Series) · as Barry |
| 1985 | Screen Two (TV Series) · as Kecks McGuinness |
| 1984 | A Private Function · as Nuttol |
| 1984 | The Bill (TV Series) · as Ray Goller |
| 1983 | Fords on Water · as Winston's Boss |
| 1979 | Minder (TV Series) · as Jack Wragg |
| 1978 | Going Straight (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1977 | The Duellists · as Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard |
| 1976 | Occupy! · as Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool |
| 1973 | Last of the Summer Wine (TV Series) · as Man in Cafe |
| 1973 | Second City Firsts (TV Series) · as Duffy |
| 1972 | Crown Court (TV Series) · as actor |
| 1970 | Play for Today (TV Series) · as Danny Duggan |
| 1960 | Coronation Street (TV Series) · as Detective Sergeant Cross |