Pete Postlethwaite
Born in Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK — Feb 07 1946• Died Jan 02 2011
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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…
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Casualty
Ralph Peters
Minder
Jack Wragg
Play for Today
Danny Duggan
Inception
Maurice Fischer
Last of the Summer Wine
Man in Cafe
The Oscars
Self
Screen Two
Panter
Pie in the Sky
Kevin Tasker
Lovejoy
Terence Sullivan
Sharpe
Obadiah Hakeswill
The BAFTA Awards
Self
Between the Lines
Ch. Supt. Jameson
The Usual Suspects
Kobayashi
Zorro
Bandit
The Town
Fergus "Fergie" Colm
Romeo + Juliet
Father Laurence
Clash of the Titans
Spyros
The Last of the Mohicans
Captain Beams
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Quince (voice)
Alien³
David
Æon Flux
Keeper
Criminal Justice
Hooch
Martin Chuzzlewit
Montague Tigg
James and the Giant Peach
The Magic Man
The Constant Gardener
Lorbeer
The Sins
Len Green
In the Name of the Father
Giuseppe Conlon
Closing the Ring
Quinlan
DragonHeart
Gilbert
The Shipping News
Tert Card
The Dressmaker
Jack
Solomon Kane
William Crowthorn
Going Straight
Thomas Clifford Crowther
El C.I.D.
Vince
The Omen
Father Brennan
Mitch
Jack Frost
To Kill a Priest
Josef
Dark Water
Veeck
Alice in Wonderland
Carpenter
Split Second
Paulsen
Hamlet
Player King
The Duellists
Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard
Return to Jurassic Park
Self
Brassed Off
Danny
Animal Farm
Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice)
Waterland
Henry Crick
Treasure Island
George Merry
Rat
Hubert Flynn
Sharpe's Enemy
Obadiah Hakeswill
Tumbledown
Major (Rehabilitation Centre)
Triggermen
Ben Cutler
Sharpe: The Legend
Hakeswill
Killing Bono
Karl
Among Giants
Ray
Tattoos: A Scarred History
Self
The Limit
Gale
Butterfly Collectors
DI John McKeown
When the Sky Falls
Martin Shaughnessy
A Private Function
Nuttol
Between Strangers
John
Sin Bin
Mitch
When Saturday Comes
Ken Jackson
Sharpe's Company
Obadiah Hakeswill
The Making of 'The Lost World'
Self
Needle
Paula's Father
Crimetime
Sidney
Tales of Sherwood Forest
Eric
Anchoress
William Carpenter
Wayward Son
Ben Alexander
Lost for Words
Deric Longden
Coast to Coast
Kecks McGuinness
Ghost Son
Doc
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Various Characters
Cowboy Up
Reid Braxton
Fords on Water
Winston's Boss
Occupy!
Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
The Paradise Run
Soldier
The Age of Stupid
The Archivist
Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
Self
Brute
Sincai
Afternoon Off
Attendant in Art Gallery
Kingdom Come
Keef
Number 27
Becket
The Divine Ryans
Uncle Reg Ryan
They Never Slept
Panter
Red Mercury
Gold Commander
Waving at Trains
Douglas Warren
Player
Colin
The Grass Arena
The Dipper
Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
Arthur (voice)
Cyrano de Bergerac
Ragueneau
Doris and Doreen
Mr. Lomax
The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.
Self
Thwum
Duffy
Amistad
Holabird
The Muscle Market
Danny Duggan
A Box of Swan
Tony
Valley of the Heart's Delight
Albion Munson
A Crack in the Ice
Painter
Strange Bedfellows
Russell McKenzie (taxman)
The Serpent's Kiss
Thomas Smith
Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water'
Self
Clough: The Brian Clough Story
Narrator
Suite 16
Glover
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
Ireneusz Lesniak
Thora Hird Tribute
Deric Longden (archive footage, uncredited)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Roland Tembo
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Father
The Racer
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