Pete Postlethwaite

Born: 1946-02-07

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.


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Inception

as Maurice Fischer
Released: 2010-07-15

Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his...

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as David
Released: 1992-05-22

After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a...

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as Spyros
Released: 2010-03-26

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" Colm
Released: 2010-09-15

Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his...

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James and the Giant Peach

as The Magic Man
Released: 1996-04-12

When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in...

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as Kobayashi
Released: 1995-07-19

Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic...

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The Omen

as Father Brennan
Released: 2006-06-06

A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic...

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Romeo + Juliet

as Father Laurence
Released: 1996-11-01

In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the...

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as Keeper
Released: 2005-11-30

400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except...

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The Last of the Mohicans

as Captain Beams
Released: 1992-08-26

In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and...

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The Constant Gardener

as Lorbeer
Released: 2005-08-31

Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly,...

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Solomon Kane

as William Crowthorn
Released: 2009-09-16

A nomadic 16th century warrior, condemned to hell for his brutal past, seeks redemption by...

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DragonHeart

as Gilbert
Released: 1996-05-31

In an ancient time when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, a knight named Bowen...

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In the Name of the Father

as Giuseppe Conlon
Released: 1993-12-12

A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub...

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Alice in Wonderland

as Carpenter
Released: 1999-02-28

Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets...

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The Shipping News

as Tert Card
Released: 2001-12-18

An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to...

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Dark Water

as Veeck
Released: 2005-07-08

Dahlia Williams and her daughter Cecelia move into a rundown apartment on New York's Roosevelt...

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Animal Farm

as Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice)
Released: 1999-10-03

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands....

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The Duellists

as Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard
Released: 1977-08-31

In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and...

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Treasure Island

as George Merry
Released: 1990-01-22

Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who...

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Brassed Off

as Danny
Released: 1996-11-01

A Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their...

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Split Second

as Paulsen
Released: 1992-05-01

In a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone hunts a serial killer who murdered his...

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Hamlet

as Player King
Released: 1990-12-19

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the...

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Closing the Ring

as Quinlan
Released: 2007-09-14

During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love...

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Return to Jurassic Park

as Self
Released: 2011-02-05

A multi-part documentary about the making of the Jurassic Park trilogy. Each part walks through...

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Killing Bono

as Karl
Released: 2011-04-01

The true story of Neil and Ivan McCormick, two Irish brothers who attempt to become rock stars...

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Distant Voices, Still Lives

as Father
Released: 1988-11-16

Siblings Maisie and Tony, along with their mother, gather for their sister Eileen's wedding. It...

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A Private Function

as Nuttol
Released: 1984-11-09

In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and...

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Waterland

as Henry Crick
Released: 1992-08-21

The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete...

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Triggermen

as Ben Cutler
Released: 2002-07-26

Two British conmen in Chicago are mistaken for hired hitmen by mobsters wanting to rub out a...

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Cowboy Up

as Reid Braxton
Released: 2002-09-03

"Cowboy Up" is a celebration of the risk-taking, daredevil personalities of modern rodeo. In the...

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Between Strangers

as John
Released: 2002-08-30

Three women confront their pasts which changes their futures.

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Tumbledown

as Major (Rehabilitation Centre)
Released: 1988-05-29

The film centers on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC, an officer of the Scots Guards during...

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Amistad

as Holabird
Released: 1997-12-10

In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque...

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When Saturday Comes

as Ken Jackson
Released: 1996-03-01

Jimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working...

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Strange Bedfellows

as Russell McKenzie (taxman)
Released: 2004-04-22

Two 'very straight' old timers have to learn how to pass as a loving gay couple after falsely...

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The Age of Stupid

as The Archivist
Released: 2009-09-21

The Age of Stupid is the new movie from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel) and producer John...

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Sharpe's Company

as Obadiah Hakeswill
Released: 1994-05-25

Spain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from...

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Bandyta

as Sincai
Released: 1997-11-07

Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but...

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The Serpent's Kiss

as Thomas Smith
Released: 1997-05-14

A man sends a young architect to build an extravagant garden to bankrupt the husband of the...

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To Kill a Priest

as Josef
Released: 1988-09-07

A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.

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Among Giants

as Ray
Released: 1998-06-24

A manager hires Ray, off the books, to paint all the power towers in a 15-mile stretch of...

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When the Sky Falls

as Martin Shaughnessy
Released: 2000-06-26

Fact-based story about Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton, who invaded the Irish...

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The Lost World: Jurassic Park

as Roland Tembo
Released: 1997-05-23

Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John...

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Crimetime

as Sidney
Released: 1996-08-01

The star of a TV crime reenactment show becomes caught up in the mind of the killer he is playing.

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Rat

as Hubert Flynn
Released: 2001-04-01

After a night of drinking Guiness at the local watering hole, an ordinary, working-class, family...

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Sharpe's Enemy

as Obadiah Hakeswill
Released: 1994-06-01

Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe's old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have...

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The Making of 'The Lost World'

as Himself
Released: 1997-05-08

Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of director Steven Spielberg's 1997 film "The...

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Red Mercury

as Gold Commander
Released: 2005-05-13

Three young Muslim men, part of a terror cell, are making a bomb in a London flat, when they get...

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Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

as uncredited
Released: 2000-12-25

The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.

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They Never Slept

as Panter
Released: 1991-01-20

When plucky Corporal Pru Merriman reports to her superiors Monk and Bob for driving duty, she...

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Ghost Son

as Doc
Released: 2007-04-05

A widowed newlywed stays on her deceased husband's South African farm, then bears a child who...

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Anchoress

as William Carpenter
Released: 1993-09-10

Enter the medieval world of Christine Carpenter, a visionary girl who is to become an Anchoress...

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Afternoon Off

as Attendant in Art Gallery
Released: 1979-02-03

Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little...

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Needle

as Paula's Father
Released: 1990-09-12

Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's...

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Sin Bin

as Mitch
Released: 1994-05-18

A male nurse in a mental hospital witnesses one patient killing another, but struggles with his...

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Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener

as Self
Released: 2006-01-10

The Constant Gardener featurette.

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The Divine Ryans

as Uncle Reg Ryan
Released: 1999-01-01

When Draper Doyle’s father drops dead two days after his birthday, Draper realises that he his...

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The Dressmaker

as Jack
Released: 1988-12-16

In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after...

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Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose

as Arthur (voice)
Released: 2003-12-26

A nightingale sings for a lovesick student. The student is pining for a girl who will only dance...

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Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'

as Kobayashi (archive footage)
Released: 2002-04-02

Documentary that includes interviews with Singer as well as the rest of the cast - mainly...

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Occupy!

as Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
Released: 1976-01-01

Bill Nighy, Pete Postlewaite and (briefly) Julie Walters, then all of the Everyman Theatre...

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Fords on Water

as Winston's Boss
Released: 1983-01-01

Influential, cult classic, UK buddy road movie about two friends, one white and one black, who...

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Wayward Son

as Ben Alexander
Released: 1999-09-20

Former fashion photographer Randall Harris debuts with this gritty drama about justice and...

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Suite 16

as Glover
Released: 1994-11-24

After an argument and fight with a wealthy one night stand in a posh hotel, young hustler Chris...

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The Grass Arena

as The Dipper
Released: 1992-01-19

The Grass Arena is based on the autobiography of John Healy. Raised in an strongly religious...

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Valley of the Heart's Delight

as Albion Munson
Released: 2006-04-24

When a fatal kidnapping ignites a firestorm of suspicion and rage in idyllic 1933 San Jose,...

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Lost for Words

as Deric Longden
Released: 1999-01-03

Deric Longden and his wife, Aileen, come to terms with the fact that his mother, Annie, is...

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Thwum

as Duffy
Released: 1975-11-22

Presumed lost after its initial broadcast in 1975, Thwum features a young Pete Postlethwaite in...

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The Limit

as Gale
Released: 2004-12-28

An undercover drug agent (Claire Forlani) has been "in" too long. the line between her job and...

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The Muscle Market

as Danny Duggan
Released: 1981-01-13

Danny Duggan runs a failing building contractors, and resorts to sub-gangster thuggery to keep...

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Clough: The Brian Clough Story

as Narrator
Released: 2009-03-25

30 years since his first European Cup success, 15 years since his retirement and 5 years after...

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The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.

as Self
Released: 1999-01-01

Narrated by Connick himself in a candid look at his own life and career, the program features...

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Minder

as Jack Wragg
First aired: 1979-10-29

This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and...

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Minder

as Logie
First aired: 1979-10-29

This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and...

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Casualty

as Ralph Peters
First aired: 1986-09-06

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...

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Casualty

as Hank
First aired: 1986-09-06

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...

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The One Show

as Self - Guest
First aired: 2006-08-14

A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One and BBC One HD....

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The Oscars

as Self
First aired: 1953-03-19

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...

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Last of the Summer Wine

as Man in Cafe
First aired: 1973-01-04

Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never...

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Richard & Judy

as Self
First aired: 2001-11-26

Richard & Judy was a British chat show presented by the married couple Richard Madeley and...

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Pie in the Sky

as Kevin Tasker
First aired: 1994-03-13

Pie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and...

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Lovejoy

as Terence Sullivan
First aired: 1986-01-10

The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East...

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Sharpe

as Obadiah Hakeswill
First aired: 1993-05-05

Sharpe is a British series of television dramas starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a...

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Between the Lines

as uncredited
First aired: 1992-09-04

Detective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation...

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Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

as Quince (voice)
First aired: 1992-11-09

An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by...

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Criminal Justice

as Hooch
First aired: 2008-06-30

Thriller by Peter Moffat about the challenges and politics of the criminal justice system seen...

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Sins

as Len Green
First aired: 2000-10-24

Len Green is a former bank robber and getaway driver who has retired from the criminal life and...

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Going Straight

as uncredited
First aired: 1978-02-24

Going Straight is a BBC sitcom which was a direct spin-off from Porridge, starring Ronnie Barker...

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Martin Chuzzlewit

as Tigg Montague
First aired: 1994-11-07

When old Martin Chuzzlewit disinherits his grandson, he falls prey to a host of rapacious relatives.

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Butterfly Collectors

as John McKeown
First aired: 1999-04-19

John McKeown emphatically dislikes being a policeman. Two teenage boys discover a murdered man...

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