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Pete Postlethwaite
Pete Postlethwaite’s screen credits include Maurice Fischer in Inception, Kobayashi in The Usual Suspects, and Lorbeer in The Constant Gardener.
Born February 7, 1946† January 2, 2011 Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK4 movies on MoviHero
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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. …
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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.
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- 2011Killing BonoKarl
- 2011Return to Jurassic ParkSelf
- 2010The TownFergus "Fergie" Colm
- 2009Solomon KaneWilliam Crowthorn
- 2009The Age of StupidThe Archivist
- 2009Tattoos: A Scarred HistorySelf
- 2009Clough: The Brian Clough StoryNarrator
- 2009Waving at TrainsDouglas Warren
- 2008PlayerColin
- 2007Closing the RingQuinlan
- 2007Ghost SonDoc
- 2006The OmenFather Brennan
- 2006Valley of the Heart's DelightAlbion Munson
- 2006Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant GardenerSelf
- 2005Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water'Self
- 2005Æon FluxKeeper
- 2005Dark WaterVeeck
- 2005Red MercuryGold Commander
- 2004The LimitGale
- 2004Strange BedfellowsRussell McKenzie (taxman)
- 2003Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the RoseArthur (voice)
- 2003Thora Hird TributeDeric Longden (archive footage, uncredited)
- 2002Cowboy UpReid Braxton
- 2002Between StrangersJohn
- 2002TriggermenBen Cutler
- 2001The Shipping NewsTert Card
- 2000Victoria Wood with All the TrimmingsVarious Characters
- 2000RatHubert Flynn
- 2000When the Sky FallsMartin Shaughnessy
- 1999Animal FarmBenjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones
- 1999Wayward SonBen Alexander
- 1999Alice in WonderlandCarpenter
- 1999Lost for WordsDeric Longden
- 1999The Divine RyansUncle Reg Ryan
- 1999The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.Self
- 1998Among GiantsRay
- 1997AmistadHolabird
- 1997BruteSincai
- 1997Sharpe: The LegendHakeswill
- 1997The Lost World: Jurassic ParkRoland Tembo
- 1997The Serpent's KissThomas Smith
- 1997The Making of 'The Lost World'Self
- 1996Brassed OffDanny
- 1996Romeo + JulietFather Laurence
- 1996CrimetimeSidney
- 1996DragonHeartGilbert
- 1996James and the Giant PeachThe Magic Man
- 1996When Saturday ComesKen Jackson
- 1994Suite 16Glover
- 1994Sharpe's EnemySergeant Obadiah Hakeswill
- 1994Sharpe's CompanySergeant Obadiah Hakeswill
- 1994Sin BinMitch
- 1993In the Name of the FatherGiuseppe Conlon
- 1993AnchoressWilliam Carpenter
- 1992The Last of the MohicansCaptain Beams
- 1992WaterlandHenry Crick
- 1992Alien³David
- 1992A Midsummer Night's DreamQuince (voice)
- 1992Split SecondPaulsen
- 1991The Grass ArenaThe Dipper
- 1991They Never SleptPanter
- 1990HamletPlayer King
- 1990A Box of SwanTony
- 1990Kingdom ComeKeef
- 1990NeedlePaula's Father
- 1990Treasure IslandGeorge Merry
- 1988The DressmakerJack
- 1988Distant Voices, Still LivesFather
- 1988Number 27Becket
- 1988To Kill a PriestJosef
- 1988TumbledownMajor (Rehabilitation Centre)
- 1987Coast to CoastKecks McGuinness
- 1985A Crack in the IcePainter
- 1985Cyrano de BergeracRagueneau
- 1984A Private FunctionNuttol
- 1983Fords on WaterWinston's Boss
- 1981Strike: The Birth of SolidarityIreneusz Lesniak
- 1981The Muscle MarketDanny Duggan
- 1979Afternoon OffAttendant in Art Gallery
- 1978Doris and DoreenMr. Lomax
- 1977The DuellistsOrderly shaving Gen. Treillard
- 1976The Paradise RunSoldier
- 1976Occupy!Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
- 1975ThwumDuffy
- 1975The RacerEcco
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