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.

Filmography

• 2011Killing Bono — Karl
• 2010Clash of the Titans — Spyros
• 2010Inception — Maurice Fischer
• 2010The Town — Fergus "Fergie" Colm
• 2009Clough: The Brian Clough Story — Narrator
• 2009Solomon Kane — William Crowthorn
• 2009The Age of Stupid — The Archivist
• 2009Waving at Trains — Douglas Warren
• Criminal Justice — Hooch
• 2008Player — Colin
• 2007Closing the Ring — Quinlan
• 2007Ghost Son — Doc
• 2006The Omen — Father Brennan
• 2006Valley of the Heart's Delight — Albion Munson
• 2005Dark Water — Veeck
• 2005Red Mercury — Gold Commander
• 2005The Constant Gardener — Lorbeer
• 2005Æon Flux — Keeper
• 2004Strange Bedfellows — Russell McKenzie (taxman)
• 2004The Limit — Gale
• 2003Thora Hird Tribute — Deric Longden (archive footage, uncredited)
• 2003Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose — Arthur (voice)
• 2002Between Strangers — John
• 2002Cowboy Up — Reid Braxton
• 2002Triggermen — Ben Cutler
• 2001The Shipping News — Tert Card
• 2000Rat — Hubert Flynn
• The Sins — Len Green
• 2000Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings — Various Characters
• 2000When the Sky Falls — Martin Shaughnessy
• 1999Alice in Wonderland — Carpenter
• 1999Animal Farm — Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones
• Butterfly Collectors — DI John McKeown
• 1999Lost for Words — Deric Longden
• 1999The Divine Ryans — Uncle Reg Ryan
• 1999Wayward Son — Ben Alexander
• 1998Among Giants — Ray
• 1997Amistad — Holabird
• 1997Brute — Sincai
• 1997Sharpe: The Legend — Hakeswill
• 1997The Lost World: Jurassic Park — Roland Tembo
• 1997The Serpent's Kiss — Thomas Smith
• 1996Brassed Off — Danny
• 1996Crimetime — Sidney
• 1996DragonHeart — Gilbert
• 1996James and the Giant Peach — The Magic Man
• 1996Romeo + Juliet — Father Laurence
• TFI Friday
• 1996When Saturday Comes — Ken Jackson
• 1995The Usual Suspects — Kobayashi
• Martin Chuzzlewit — Montague Tigg
• Pie in the Sky — Kevin Tasker
• 1994Sharpe's Company — Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill
• 1994Sharpe's Enemy — Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill
• 1994Sin Bin — Mitch
• 1994Suite 16 — Glover
• 1993Anchoress — William Carpenter
• 1993In the Name of the Father — Giuseppe Conlon
• Sharpe — Obadiah Hakeswill
• 1992A Midsummer Night's Dream — Quince (voice)
• 1992Alien³ — David
• Between the Lines — Ch. Supt. Jameson
• Shakespeare: The Animated Tales — Quince (voice)
• 1992Split Second — Paulsen
• 1992The Last of the Mohicans — Captain Beams
• 1992Waterland — Henry Crick
• 1991The Grass Arena — The Dipper
• 1991They Never Slept — Panter
• 1990A Box of Swan — Tony
• Debut on Two — Keef, Tony
• El C.I.D. — Vince
• 1990Hamlet — Player King
• 1990Kingdom Come — Keef
• 1990Needle — Paula's Father
• 1990Treasure Island — George Merry
• Zorro — Bandit
• Tales of Sherwood Forest — Eric
• 1988Distant Voices, Still Lives — Father
• 1988Number 27 — Becket
• 1988The Dressmaker — Jack
• 1988To Kill a Priest — Josef
• 1988Tumbledown — Major (Rehabilitation Centre)
• 1987Coast to Coast — Kecks McGuinness
• Casualty — Ralph Peters, Hank
• Lovejoy — Terence Sullivan
• ScreenPlay — Paula's Father
• 1985A Crack in the Ice — Painter
• 1985Cyrano de Bergerac — Ragueneau
• Screen Two — Panter, Kecks McGuinness, The Dipper, Mitch
• 1984A Private Function — Nuttol
• Mitch — Jack Frost
• 1983Fords on Water — Winston's Boss
• 1981Strike: The Birth of Solidarity — Ireneusz Lesniak
• 1981The Muscle Market — Danny Duggan
• 1979Afternoon Off — Attendant in Art Gallery
• Minder — Jack Wragg, Logie
• 1978Doris and Doreen — Mr. Lomax
• Going Straight — Thomas Clifford Crowther
• 1977The Duellists — Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard
• 1976Occupy! — Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
• Plays for Britain — Soldier
• 1976The Paradise Run — Soldier
• 1975The Racer — Ecco
• 1975Thwum — Duffy
• Last of the Summer Wine — Man in Cafe
• Second City Firsts — Duffy
• Play for Today — Danny Duggan

Appearances as themselves (9)

• 2011Return to Jurassic Park — Self
• 2009Tattoos: A Scarred History — Self
• 2006Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener — Self
• 2005Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water' — Self
• Richard & Judy — Self
• 1999The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr. — Self
• 1997The Making of 'The Lost World' — Self
• The Oscars — Self
• The BAFTA Awards — Self