Pete Postlethwaite
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 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.
Inception
as Maurice FischerCobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his...
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Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus is helpless to save his family from Hades, vengeful...
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The Town
as Fergus "Fergie" ColmDoug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his...
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Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic...
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Solomon Kane
as William CrowthornA nomadic 16th century warrior, condemned to hell for his brutal past, seeks redemption by...
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After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a...
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The Last of the Mohicans
as Captain BeamsIn war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and...
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Romeo + Juliet
as Father LaurenceIn director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the...
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The Duellists
as Orderly shaving Gen. TreillardIn 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and...
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James and the Giant Peach
as The Magic ManWhen the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in...
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Treasure Island
as George MerryYoung Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who...
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DragonHeart
as GilbertIn an ancient time when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, a knight named Bowen...
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The Omen
as Father BrennanA diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic...
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In the Name of the Father
as Giuseppe ConlonA small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub...
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400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except...
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The Constant Gardener
as LorbeerJustin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly,...
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Closing the Ring
as QuinlanDuring the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love...
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Alice in Wonderland
as CarpenterAlice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets...
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Return to Jurassic Park
as SelfA multi-part documentary about the making of the Jurassic Park trilogy. Each part walks through...
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Hamlet
as Player KingHamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the...
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Brassed Off
as DannyA Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their...
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Dark Water
as VeeckDahlia Williams and her daughter Cecelia move into a rundown apartment on New York's Roosevelt...
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Distant Voices, Still Lives
as FatherSiblings Maisie and Tony, along with their mother, gather for their sister Eileen's wedding. It...
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Split Second
as PaulsenIn a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone hunts a serial killer who murdered his...
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Animal Farm
as Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice)Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands....
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The Shipping News
as Tert CardAn emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to...
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Waterland
as Henry CrickThe story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete...
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A Private Function
as NuttolIn the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and...
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Killing Bono
as KarlThe true story of Neil and Ivan McCormick, two Irish brothers who attempt to become rock stars...
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The Muscle Market
as Danny DugganDanny Duggan runs a failing building contractors, and resorts to sub-gangster thuggery to keep...
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The Age of Stupid
as The ArchivistThe Age of Stupid is the new movie from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel) and producer John...
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When the Sky Falls
as Martin ShaughnessyFact-based story about Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton, who invaded the Irish...
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park
as Roland TemboFour years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John...
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The Limit
as GaleAn undercover drug agent (Claire Forlani) has been "in" too long. the line between her job and...
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Cowboy Up
as Reid Braxton"Cowboy Up" is a celebration of the risk-taking, daredevil personalities of modern rodeo. In the...
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Anchoress
as William CarpenterA 16th-century peasant becomes transfixed by a statue of the Virgin Mary, and petitions to be...
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Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
as SelfThe Constant Gardener featurette.
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Amistad
as HolabirdIn 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque...
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The Serpent's Kiss
as Thomas SmithA man sends a young architect to build an extravagant garden to bankrupt the husband of the...
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The Grass Arena
as The DipperThe Grass Arena is based on the autobiography of John Healy. Raised in an strongly religious...
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Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
as Arthur (voice)A nightingale sings for a lovesick student. The student is pining for a girl who will only dance...
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When Saturday Comes
as Ken JacksonJimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working...
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To Kill a Priest
as JosefA young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.
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Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
as Various CharactersThe comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.
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Bandyta
as SincaiShipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but...
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Triggermen
as Ben CutlerTwo British conmen in Chicago are mistaken for hired hitmen by mobsters wanting to rub out a...
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Valley of the Heart's Delight
as Albion MunsonWhen a fatal kidnapping ignites a firestorm of suspicion and rage in idyllic 1933 San Jose,...
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Sharpe's Company
as Obadiah HakeswillSpain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from...
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Sharpe's Enemy
as Obadiah HakeswillPortugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe's old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have...
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Occupy!
as Player in Everyman Theatre Company, LiverpoolBill Nighy, Pete Postlewaite and (briefly) Julie Walters, then all of the Everyman Theatre...
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Strange Bedfellows
as Russell McKenzie (taxman)Two 'very straight' old timers have to learn how to pass as a loving gay couple after falsely...
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Sin Bin
as MitchA male nurse in a mental hospital witnesses one patient killing another, but struggles with his...
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Tumbledown
as Major (Rehabilitation Centre)The film centers on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC, an officer of the Scots Guards during...
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Sharpe: The Legend
as HakeswillSeveral years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London...
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Wayward Son
as Ben AlexanderFormer fashion photographer Randall Harris debuts with this gritty drama about justice and...
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Ghost Son
as DocA widowed newlywed stays on her deceased husband's South African farm, then bears a child who...
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Suite 16
as GloverAfter an argument and fight with a wealthy one night stand in a posh hotel, young hustler Chris...
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Between Strangers
as JohnThree women confront their pasts which changes their futures.
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Among Giants
as RayA manager hires Ray, off the books, to paint all the power towers in a 15-mile stretch of...
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The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.
as SelfNarrated by Connick himself in a candid look at his own life and career, the program features...
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Fords on Water
as Winston's BossInfluential, cult classic, UK buddy road movie about two friends, one white and one black, who...
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They Never Slept
as PanterWhen plucky Corporal Pru Merriman reports to her superiors Monk and Bob for driving duty, she...
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Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'
as Kobayashi (archive footage)Documentary that includes interviews with Singer as well as the rest of the cast - mainly...
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The Divine Ryans
as Uncle Reg RyanWhen Draper Doyle’s father drops dead two days after his birthday, Draper realises that he his...
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Rat
as Hubert FlynnAfter a night of drinking Guiness at the local watering hole, an ordinary, working-class, family...
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Needle
as Paula's FatherNeedle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's...
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Lost for Words
as Deric LongdenDeric Longden and his wife, Aileen, come to terms with the fact that his mother, Annie, is...
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Red Mercury
as Gold CommanderThree young Muslim men, part of a terror cell, are making a bomb in a London flat, when they get...
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Crimetime
as SidneyThe star of a TV crime reenactment show becomes caught up in the mind of the killer he is playing.
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Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
as Player King (archive footage)Mel Gibson teaches Hamlet to a group of high school drama students.
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The Making of 'The Lost World'
as SelfBehind-the-scenes documentary about the making of director Steven Spielberg's 1997 film "The...
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Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
as Ireneusz LesniakBritish TV Movie drama/documentary detailing the birth of Poland's Solidarity union
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The Dressmaker
as JackIn England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after...
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Clough: The Brian Clough Story
as Narrator30 years since his first European Cup success, 15 years since his retirement and 5 years after...
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Afternoon Off
as Attendant in Art GalleryLee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little...
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Thwum
as DuffyPresumed lost after its initial broadcast in 1975, Thwum features a young Pete Postlethwaite in...
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The One Show
as Self - GuestA topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.
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Minder
as Jack WraggThis comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and...
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Minder
as LogieThis comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and...
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Casualty
as Ralph PetersDrama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...
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Casualty
as HankDrama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...
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Play for Today
as Danny DugganPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...
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Last of the Summer Wine
as Man in CafeUnencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never...
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Richard & Judy
as SelfRichard & Judy was a British chat show presented by the married couple Richard Madeley and...
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Pie in the Sky
as Kevin TaskerPie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and...
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Zorro
as BanditZorro, also known as The New Zorro, New World Zorro, and Zorro 1990, is an American...
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The Oscars
as SelfAn annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...
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Sharpe
as Obadiah HakeswillSharpe is a British series of television dramas starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a...
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Lovejoy
as Terence SullivanThe adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East...
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Screen Two
as PanterSeries of single made-for-television dramas.
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Screen Two
as Kecks McGuinnessSeries of single made-for-television dramas.
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Screen Two
as The DipperSeries of single made-for-television dramas.
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Screen Two
as MitchSeries of single made-for-television dramas.
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Between the Lines
as Ch. Supt. JamesonDetective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation...
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Criminal Justice
as HoochThriller by Peter Moffat about the challenges and politics of the criminal justice system seen...
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Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
as Quince (voice)An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by...
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Martin Chuzzlewit
as Tigg MontagueWhen old Martin Chuzzlewit disinherits his grandson, he falls prey to a host of rapacious relatives.
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The BAFTA Awards
as SelfBAFTA presents awards for film, television and games, including children's entertainment, at a...
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Sins
as Len GreenLen Green is a former bank robber and getaway driver who has retired from the criminal life and...
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Going Straight
as uncreditedGoing Straight is a BBC sitcom which was a direct spin-off from Porridge, starring Ronnie Barker...
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Butterfly Collectors
as John McKeownJohn McKeown emphatically dislikes being a policeman. Two teenage boys discover a murdered man...
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