Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
2/7/1946
Place of Birth
Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
Also Known As
Peter William PostlethwaitePeter PostlethwaitePeter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE
Pete Postlethwaite
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
as Maurice Fischer
The Usual Suspects
as Kobayashi
Alien³
as David
Clash of the Titans
as Spyros
Animal Farm
as Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice)
The Last of the Mohicans
as Captain Beams
The Town
as Fergus "Fergie" Colm
Brute
as Sincai
Solomon Kane
as William Crowthorn
Cowboy Up
as Reid Braxton
Killing Bono
as Karl
Romeo + Juliet
as Father Laurence
Rat
as Hubert Flynn
Hamlet
as Player King
DragonHeart
as Gilbert
Treasure Island
as George Merry
The Omen
as Father Brennan
Æon Flux
as Keeper
The Constant Gardener
as Lorbeer
In the Name of the Father
as Giuseppe Conlon