Actor
Pete Postlethwaite
February 7, 1946 · Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
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.
Notable work
8.4Inception (2010)
as Maurice Fischer
8.2The Usual Suspects (1995)
as Kobayashi
6.6The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
as Roland Tembo
5.9Clash of the Titans (2010)
as Spyros
6.4Alien³ (1992)
as David
7.2The Town (2010)
as Fergus "Fergie" Colm
6.8Romeo + Juliet (1996)
as Father Laurence
7.4The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
as Captain Beams
5.6Æon Flux (2005)
as Keeper
6.6DragonHeart (1996)
as Gilbert
7.9In the Name of the Father (1993)
as Giuseppe Conlon
7The Constant Gardener (2005)
as Lorbeer
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