
Pete Postlethwaite
Born
1946-02-07
Place of birth
Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
Died
2011-01-02
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 ...
Known for

Inception
Maurice Fischer

The Usual Suspects
Kobayashi

The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Roland Tembo

Clash of the Titans
Spyros

Alien³
David

The Town
Fergus "Fergie" Colm

Romeo + Juliet
Father Laurence

The Last of the Mohicans
Captain Beams

Æon Flux
Keeper

DragonHeart
Gilbert

In the Name of the Father
Giuseppe Conlon

The Constant Gardener
Lorbeer

Solomon Kane
William Crowthorn

James and the Giant Peach
The Magic Man

Amistad
Holabird