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Pete Postlethwaite

Acting Born Feb 7, 1946 Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK 24 credits

Biography

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.

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Known for

Casualty

as Ralph Peters

Casualty

as Hank

Play for Today

as Danny Duggan
Film

Inception

as Maurice Fischer
Film

The Usual Suspects

as Kobayashi

Full filmography

  • Casualty (1986) as Ralph Peters
  • Casualty (1986) as Hank
  • Play for Today (1970) as Danny Duggan
  • Inception (2010) as Maurice Fischer
  • Minder (1979) as Jack Wragg
  • Minder (1979) as Logie
  • Last of the Summer Wine (1973) as Man in Cafe
  • Screen Two (1985) as Panter
  • Screen Two (1985) as Kecks McGuinness
  • Screen Two (1985) as The Dipper
  • Screen Two (1985) as Mitch
  • The Oscars (1953) as Self
  • The Usual Suspects (1995) as Kobayashi
  • Richard & Judy (2001) as Self
  • Pie in the Sky (1994) as Kevin Tasker
  • Sharpe (1993) as Obadiah Hakeswill
  • The Last of the Mohicans (1992) as Captain Beams
  • Lovejoy (1986) as Terence Sullivan
  • Between the Lines (1992) as Ch. Supt. Jameson
  • The Town (2010) as Fergus "Fergie" Colm
  • Clash of the Titans (2010) as Spyros
  • Romeo + Juliet (1996) as Father Laurence
  • Alien³ (1992) as David
  • ScreenPlay (1986) as Paula's Father