Acting credits
101
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Pete Postlethwaite
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 81Series: 20
TMDB ID: 4935
IMDb ID: nm0000592
Known for: Acting
Born: February 7, 1946
Died: January 2, 2011
Age: 64
Place of birth: Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1949 - 2011
Years active: 63
Average TMDB rating: 6.53
Wikidata: Q217137
Also known as
Peter William Postlethwaite • Peter Postlethwaite • Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE • Пит Постлетуэйт • 彼得·威廉·波斯尔思韦特 • 皮特·波斯尔思韦特
Biography
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.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Pete Postlethwaite.
6.2
Killing Bono
as Karl
2011 Movie
6.6
Return to Jurassic Park
as Self
2011 Movie
7.2
The Town
as Fergus "Fergie" Colm
2010 Movie
8.4
Inception
as Maurice Fischer
2010 Movie
5.9
Clash of the Titans
as Spyros
2010 Movie
6.0
Solomon Kane
as William Crowthorn
2009 Movie
6.5
The Age of Stupid
as The Archivist
2009 Movie
Tattoos: A Scarred History
as Self
2009 Movie
Clough: The Brian Clough Story
as Narrator
2009 Movie
6.1
Closing the Ring
as Quinlan
2007 Movie
4.4
Ghost Son
as Doc
2007 Movie
5.7
The Omen
as Father Brennan
2006 Movie
6.0
Valley of the Heart's Delight
as Albion Munson
2006 Movie
4.0
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
as Self
2006 Movie
5.6
Æon Flux
as Keeper
2005 Movie
7.0
The Constant Gardener
as Lorbeer
2005 Movie
5.7
Dark Water
as Veeck
2005 Movie
4.0
Red Mercury
as Gold Commander
2005 Movie
5.2
The Limit
as Gale
2004 Movie
5.6
Strange Bedfellows
as Russell McKenzie (taxman)
2004 Movie
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
as Arthur (voice)
2003 Movie
5.9
Cowboy Up
as Reid Braxton
2002 Movie
5.8
Between Strangers
as John
2002 Movie
4.6
Triggermen
as Ben Cutler
2002 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Pete Postlethwaite.
7.6
Criminal Justice
as Hooch • 5 eps
2008 Series
2.9
Richard & Judy
as Self • 1 eps
2001 Series
0.5
The Sins
as Len Green • 7 eps
2000 Series
Butterfly Collectors
as DI John McKeown • 2 eps
1999 Series
8.5
Martin Chuzzlewit
as Montague Tigg • 5 eps
1994 Series
8.3
Pie in the Sky
as Kevin Tasker • 1 eps
1994 Series
8.0
Sharpe
as Obadiah Hakeswill • 2 eps
1993 Series
6.3
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
as Quince (voice) • 1 eps
1992 Series
5.2
Between the Lines
as Ch. Supt. Jameson • 1 eps
1992 Series
7.1
Zorro
as Bandit • 1 eps
1990 Series
6.2
Casualty
as Ralph Peters • 1 eps
1986 Series
7.3
Lovejoy
as Terence Sullivan • 1 eps
1986 Series
6.8
Screen Two
as Panter • 1 eps
1985 Series
5.0
Mitch
as Jack Frost • 1 eps
1984 Series
6.8
Minder
as Jack Wragg • 1 eps
1979 Series
7.7
Going Straight
as Thomas Clifford Crowther • 1 eps
1978 Series
7.1
Last of the Summer Wine
as Man in Cafe • 1 eps
1973 Series
6.3
Play for Today
as Danny Duggan • 1 eps
1970 Series
7.1
The Oscars
as Self • 1 eps
1953 Series
10.0
The BAFTA Awards
as Self • 1 eps
1949 Series