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Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE (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...
Highest rated appearances

Solomon Kane
as William Crowthorn

The Age of Stupid
as The Archivist

Tattoos: A Scarred History
as Self

Clough: The Brian Clough Story
as Narrator
Waving at Trains
as Douglas Warren
Player
as Colin

Closing the Ring
as Quinlan

Ghost Son
as Doc

The Omen
as Father Brennan

Valley of the Heart's Delight
as Albion Munson

Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener
as Self
Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water'
as Self

Æon Flux
as Keeper

The Constant Gardener
as Lorbeer

Dark Water
as Veeck

Red Mercury
as Gold Commander

The Limit
as Gale

Strange Bedfellows
as Russell McKenzie (taxman)

Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose
as Arthur (voice)

Thora Hird Tribute
as Deric Longden (archive footage, uncredited)

Cowboy Up
as Reid Braxton

Between Strangers
as John

Triggermen
as Ben Cutler

The Shipping News
as Tert Card

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
as Various Characters

Rat
as Hubert Flynn

When the Sky Falls
as Martin Shaughnessy

Animal Farm
as Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones

Wayward Son
as Ben Alexander

Alice in Wonderland
as Carpenter

Lost for Words
as Deric Longden

The Divine Ryans
as Uncle Reg Ryan

The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.
as Self

Among Giants
as Ray

Amistad
as Holabird

Brute
as Sincai

Sharpe: The Legend
as Hakeswill

The Lost World: Jurassic Park
as Roland Tembo

The Serpent's Kiss
as Thomas Smith

The Making of 'The Lost World'
as Self

Romeo + Juliet
as Father Laurence

Brassed Off
as Danny

Crimetime
as Sidney

DragonHeart
as Gilbert

James and the Giant Peach
as The Magic Man

When Saturday Comes
as Ken Jackson

The Usual Suspects
as Kobayashi

Suite 16
as Glover

Sharpe's Enemy
as Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill

Sharpe's Company
as Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill

Sin Bin
as Mitch

In the Name of the Father
as Giuseppe Conlon

Anchoress
as William Carpenter

The Last of the Mohicans
as Captain Beams

Waterland
as Henry Crick

Alien³
as David

Split Second
as Paulsen

A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Quince (voice)

The Grass Arena
as The Dipper

They Never Slept
as Panter

Hamlet
as Player King
A Box of Swan
as Tony
Kingdom Come
as Keef

Needle
as Paula's Father

Treasure Island
as George Merry

The Dressmaker
as Jack

Distant Voices, Still Lives
as Father

Number 27
as Becket

To Kill a Priest
as Josef

Tumbledown
as Major (Rehabilitation Centre)

Coast to Coast
as Kecks McGuinness

A Crack in the Ice
as Painter
Cyrano de Bergerac
as Ragueneau

A Private Function
as Nuttol

Fords on Water
as Winston's Boss

Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
as Ireneusz Lesniak

The Muscle Market
as Danny Duggan