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Pete Postlethwaite
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 P…
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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. 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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2011
Killing Bono
Movie Karl
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2011
Return to Jurassic Park
Movie Self
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2010
The Town
Movie Fergus "Fergie" Colm
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2010
Inception
Movie Maurice Fischer
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2010
Clash of the Titans
Movie Spyros
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2009
Solomon Kane
Movie William Crowthorn
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2009
The Age of Stupid
Movie The Archivist
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2009
Tattoos: A Scarred History
Movie Self
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2009
Clough: The Brian Clough Story
Movie Narrator
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2009
Waving at Trains
Movie Douglas Warren
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2008
Player
Movie Colin
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2008
Criminal Justice
TV show Hooch
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2007
Closing the Ring
Movie Quinlan
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2007
Ghost Son
Movie Doc
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2006
The Omen
Movie Father Brennan
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2006
Valley of the Heart's Delight
Movie Albion Munson
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- 2006
- 2005
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2005
Æon Flux
Movie Keeper
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2005
The Constant Gardener
Movie Lorbeer
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2005
Dark Water
Movie Veeck
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2005
Red Mercury
Movie Gold Commander
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2004
The Limit
Movie Gale
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2004
Strange Bedfellows
Movie Russell McKenzie (taxman)
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2003
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
Movie Arthur (voice)
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2003
Thora Hird Tribute
Movie Deric Longden (archive footage, uncredited)
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2002
Cowboy Up
Movie Reid Braxton
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2002
Between Strangers
Movie John
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2002
Triggermen
Movie Ben Cutler
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2001
The Shipping News
Movie Tert Card
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2001
Richard & Judy
TV show Self
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2000
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Movie Various Characters
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2000
The Sins
TV show Len Green
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2000
Rat
Movie Hubert Flynn
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2000
When the Sky Falls
Movie Martin Shaughnessy
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1999
Animal Farm
Movie Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones
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1999
Wayward Son
Movie Ben Alexander
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1999
Butterfly Collectors
TV show DI John McKeown
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1999
Alice in Wonderland
Movie Carpenter
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1999
Lost for Words
Movie Deric Longden
