Pete Postlethwaite
Birthday: 1946-02-07
Deathday: 2010-01-22
Birthplace: Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
Gender: Male
Drafted: 0
Drafted By: Unowned
Owned By: Unowned
Owned Wins: 0
Owned Noms: 0
Win Bonus: 0
Nom Bonus: 0
Total Points: 0
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.
Career Statisics
| Season | Age | Movie | Role | Result | Points | |
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| 1994 | 48 | In the Name of the Father (1993) | Supporting Actor | Nom | 0 | |
| Career | 0 |
Transaction History
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Credits
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2011-04-01 | Killing Bono | Karl |
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2010-09-15 | The Town | Fergus "Fergie" Colm |
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2010-07-15 | Inception | Maurice Fischer |
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2010-03-26 | Clash of the Titans | Spyros |
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2009-09-21 | The Age of Stupid | The Archivist |
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2009-09-16 | Solomon Kane | William Crowthorn |
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2009-01-01 | Waving at Trains | Douglas Warren |
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2008-10-03 | Player | Colin |
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2007-09-14 | Closing the Ring | Quinlan |
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2007-04-05 | Ghost Son | Doc |
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2006-06-06 | The Omen | Father Brennan |
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2006-04-24 | Valley of the Heart's Delight | Albion Munson |
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2005-11-30 | Æon Flux | Keeper |
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2005-08-31 | The Constant Gardener | Lorbeer |
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2005-07-08 | Dark Water | Veeck |
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2005-05-13 | Red Mercury | Gold Commander |
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2004-12-28 | The Limit | Gale |
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2004-04-22 | Strange Bedfellows | Russell McKenzie (taxman) |
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2003-12-26 | Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose | Arthur (voice) |
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2002-09-03 | Cowboy Up | Reid Braxton |
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2002-08-30 | Between Strangers | John |
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2002-07-26 | Triggermen | Ben Cutler |
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2001-12-18 | The Shipping News | Tert Card |
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2001-04-01 | Rat | Hubert Flynn |
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2000-12-25 | Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings | Various Characters |
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2000-06-26 | When the Sky Falls | Martin Shaughnessy |
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1999-10-03 | Animal Farm | Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice) |
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1999-09-20 | Wayward Son | Ben Alexander |
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1999-02-28 | Alice in Wonderland | Carpenter |
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1999-01-03 | Lost for Words | Deric Longden |
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1999-01-01 | The Divine Ryans | Uncle Reg Ryan |
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1998-06-24 | Among Giants | Ray |
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1997-12-10 | Amistad | Holabird |
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1997-11-07 | Bandyta | Sincai |
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1997-10-13 | Sharpe: The Legend | Hakeswill |
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1997-05-23 | The Lost World: Jurassic Park | Roland Tembo |
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1997-05-14 | The Serpent's Kiss | Thomas Smith |
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1996-11-01 | Romeo + Juliet | Father Laurence |
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1996-11-01 | Brassed Off | Danny |
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1996-08-01 | Crimetime | Sidney |
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1996-05-31 | DragonHeart | Gilbert |
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1996-04-12 | James and the Giant Peach | The Magic Man |
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1996-03-01 | When Saturday Comes | Ken Jackson |
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1995-07-19 | The Usual Suspects | Kobayashi |
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1994-11-24 | Suite 16 | Glover |
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1994-06-01 | Sharpe's Enemy | Obadiah Hakeswill |
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1994-05-25 | Sharpe's Company | Obadiah Hakeswill |
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1994-05-18 | Sin Bin | Mitch |
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1993-12-12 | In the Name of the Father | Giuseppe Conlon |
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1993-09-10 | Anchoress | William Carpenter |
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1992-08-26 | The Last of the Mohicans | Captain Beams |
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1992-08-21 | Waterland | Henry Crick |
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1992-05-22 | Alien³ | David |
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1992-05-01 | Split Second | Paulsen |
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1992-01-19 | The Grass Arena | The Dipper |
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1991-01-20 | They Never Slept | Panter |
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1990-12-19 | Hamlet | Player King |
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1990-10-09 | A Box of Swan | Tony |
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1990-10-02 | Kingdom Come | Keef |
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1990-09-12 | Needle | Paula's Father |
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1990-01-22 | Treasure Island | George Merry |
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1988-12-16 | The Dressmaker | Jack |
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1988-11-16 | Distant Voices, Still Lives | Father |
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1988-09-07 | To Kill a Priest | Josef |
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1988-05-29 | Tumbledown | Major (Rehabilitation Centre) |
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1987-01-04 | Coast to Coast | Kecks McGuinness |
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1985-07-26 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Ragueneau |
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1984-11-09 | A Private Function | Nuttol |
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1983-01-01 | Fords on Water | Winston's Boss |
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1981-12-18 | Strike: The Birth of Solidarity | Ireneusz Lesniak |
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1981-01-13 | The Muscle Market | Danny Duggan |
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1979-02-03 | Afternoon Off | Attendant in Art Gallery |
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1978-12-16 | Doris and Doreen | Mr. Lomax |
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1977-08-31 | The Duellists | Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard |
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1976-04-05 | The Paradise Run | Soldier |
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1976-01-01 | Occupy! | Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool |
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1975-11-22 | Thwum | Duffy |