Pete Postlethwaite

Acting · Born 1946-02-07 in Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK

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 and television movies opposite actor Sean Bean's character of Richard Sharpe. Postlethwaite was born in Warrington, England in 1946. He trained as a…

Filmography

• The Usual Suspects as Kobayashi
• The Constant Gardener as Lorbeer
• The Town as Fergus "Fergie" Colm
• In the Name of the Father as Giuseppe Conlon
• Amistad as Holabird
• Brassed Off as Danny
• The Last of the Mohicans as Captain Beams
• Inception as Maurice Fischer
• The Duellists as Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park as Roland Tembo

TV

• Sharpe as Obadiah Hakeswill
• Going Straight as Thomas Clifford Crowther
• Minder as Jack Wragg
• Between the Lines as Ch. Supt. Jameson
• Richard & Judy as Self
• Last of the Summer Wine as Man in Cafe
• Lovejoy as Terence Sullivan
• Criminal Justice as Hooch
• The Oscars as Self
• The Sins as Len Green