Pete Postlethwaite
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.
Acting
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Inception
as Maurice Fischer
2010
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The Usual Suspects
as Kobayashi
1995
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park
as Roland Tembo
1997
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Clash of the Titans
as Spyros
2010
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Alien³
as David
1992
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The Town
as Fergus "Fergie" Colm
2010
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Romeo + Juliet
as Father Laurence
1996
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The Last of the Mohicans
as Captain Beams
1992
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Æon Flux
as Keeper
2005
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DragonHeart
as Gilbert
1996
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In the Name of the Father
as Giuseppe Conlon
1993
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The Constant Gardener
as Lorbeer
2005
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Solomon Kane
as William Crowthorn
2009
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James and the Giant Peach
as The Magic Man
1996
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Amistad
as Holabird
1997
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The Omen
as Father Brennan
2006
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Dark Water
as Veeck
2005
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Return to Jurassic Park
as Self
2011
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The Duellists
as Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard
1977
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Hamlet
as Player King
1990
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The Shipping News
as Tert Card
2001
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Alice in Wonderland
as Carpenter
1999
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Split Second
as Paulsen
1992
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Brassed Off
as Danny
1996