Pete Postlethwaite

Pete Postlethwaite

1946-02-07 Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK 86 Credits

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...

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Killing Bono

Killing Bono

2011

as Karl

6.3
Acting

The true story of Neil and Ivan McCormick, two Irish brothers who attempt to become rock stars but can only look on as their high school friends U2 be...

Return to Jurassic Park

Return to Jurassic Park

2011

as Self

6.6
Acting

A multi-part documentary about the making of the Jurassic Park trilogy. Each part walks through the making of part of one of the films, including the ...

The Town

The Town

2010

as Fergus "Fergie" Colm

7.2
Acting

Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the grou...

Inception

Inception

2010

as Maurice Fischer

8.4
Acting

Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as pa...

Clash of the Titans

Clash of the Titans

2010

as Spyros

5.9
Acting

Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus is helpless to save his family from Hades, vengeful god of the underworld. With nothing to lose, Perseus vo...

The Age of Stupid

The Age of Stupid

2009

as The Archivist

6.5
Acting

The Age of Stupid is the new movie from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel) and producer John Battsek (One Day In September). Pete Postlethwaite stars...

Solomon Kane

Solomon Kane

2009

as William Crowthorn

6.0
Acting

A nomadic 16th century warrior, condemned to hell for his brutal past, seeks redemption by renouncing violence, but finds some things are worth burnin...

Tattoos: A Scarred History

Tattoos: A Scarred History

2009

as Self

Acting

An exploration of how the once taboo art form has become socially acceptable.

Clough: The Brian Clough Story

Clough: The Brian Clough Story

2009

as Narrator

Acting

30 years since his first European Cup success, 15 years since his retirement and 5 years after his death; Brian Clough continues to fascinate. The Aft...

Waving at Trains

2009

as Douglas Warren

Acting

Some summer days last forever… A poignant short film starring Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite in one of his last film roles.

Player

2008

as Colin

Acting

The story of a claustrophobic relationship between a single mother and her piano prodigy son. Arriving in a tight-knit rural community, the pair becom...

Closing the Ring

Closing the Ring

2007

as Quinlan

6.1
Acting

During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man n...

Ghost Son

Ghost Son

2007

as Doc

4.5
Acting

A widowed newlywed stays on her deceased husband's South African farm, then bears a child who seems to be possessed by the dead man.

The Omen

The Omen

2006

as Father Brennan

5.6
Acting

A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror film of the same name from 1976.

Valley of the Heart's Delight

Valley of the Heart's Delight

2006

as Albion Munson

6.0
Acting

When a fatal kidnapping ignites a firestorm of suspicion and rage in idyllic 1933 San Jose, California, a hard-nosed young reporter takes on the power...

Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener

Anatomy of a Global Thriller: Behind the Scenes of The Constant Gardener

2006

as Self

4.0
Acting

The Constant Gardener featurette.

Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water'

2005

as Self

8.0
Acting
Æon Flux

Æon Flux

2005

as Keeper

5.6
Acting

400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scient...

The Constant Gardener

The Constant Gardener

2005

as Lorbeer

7.0
Acting

Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Te...

Dark Water

Dark Water

2005

as Veeck

5.7
Acting

Dahlia Williams and her daughter Cecelia move into a rundown apartment on New York's Roosevelt Island. Dahlia is in the midst of divorce proceedings, ...

Red Mercury

Red Mercury

2005

as Gold Commander

4.0
Acting

Three young Muslim men, part of a terror cell, are making a bomb in a London flat, when they get a call to vacate immediately with their gear. The pol...

The Limit

The Limit

2004

as Gale

4.0
Acting

An undercover drug agent (Claire Forlani) has been "in" too long. the line between her job and her assumed lifestyle as girlfriend to the crime boss (...

Strange Bedfellows

Strange Bedfellows

2004

as Russell McKenzie (taxman)

5.8
Acting

Two 'very straight' old timers have to learn how to pass as a loving gay couple after falsely claiming same-sex status to take advantage of newly legi...

Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose

Wilde Stories: The Nightingale and the Rose

2003

as Arthur (voice)

Acting

A nightingale sings for a lovesick student. The student is pining for a girl who will only dance with him if he presents her with a red rose. The nigh...

Cowboy Up

Cowboy Up

2002

as Reid Braxton

5.9
Acting

"Cowboy Up" is a celebration of the risk-taking, daredevil personalities of modern rodeo. In the world of professional bull riding, newcomer Ely Braxt...

Between Strangers

Between Strangers

2002

as John

5.9
Acting

Three women confront their pasts which changes their futures.

Triggermen

Triggermen

2002

as Ben Cutler

4.6
Acting

Two British conmen in Chicago are mistaken for hired hitmen by mobsters wanting to rub out a rival gangster. Keen to make a fast buck, they pretend th...

Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'

Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'

2002

as Kobayashi (archive footage)

7.0
Acting

Documentary that includes interviews with Singer as well as the rest of the cast - mainly Spacey. There is no "plot" or "promotional" elements to this...

The Shipping News

The Shipping News

2001

as Tert Card

6.4
Acting

An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

2000

as Various Characters

6.5
Acting

The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.

Rat

Rat

2000

as Hubert Flynn

6.1
Acting

After a night of drinking Guiness at the local watering hole, an ordinary, working-class, family man in Dublin's life is turned upside-down when he wa...

When the Sky Falls

When the Sky Falls

2000

as Martin Shaughnessy

5.0
Acting

Fact-based story about Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton, who invaded the Irish underworld and attempted to expose the illegitimate a...

Animal Farm

Animal Farm

1999

as Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice)

5.7
Acting

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and t...

Wayward Son

Wayward Son

1999

as Ben Alexander

3.0
Acting

Former fashion photographer Randall Harris debuts with this gritty drama about justice and redemption in rural Georgia during the Great Depression. Je...

Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland

1999

as Carpenter

6.2
Acting

Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets characters like the delightful Cheshire Cat, the clumsy W...

Lost for Words

Lost for Words

1999

as Deric Longden

7.0
Acting

Deric Longden and his wife, Aileen, come to terms with the fact that his mother, Annie, is getting too old to live on her own. Annie suffers her first...

The Divine Ryans

The Divine Ryans

1999

as Uncle Reg Ryan

Acting

When Draper Doyle’s father drops dead two days after his birthday, Draper realises that he his memories of visiting his father two days previously hav...

The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.

The Worlds of Harry Connick Jr.

1999

as Self

Acting

Narrated by Connick himself in a candid look at his own life and career, the program features interviews with jazz greats Branford and Wynton Marsalis...

Among Giants

Among Giants

1998

as Ray

5.0
Acting

A manager hires Ray, off the books, to paint all the power towers in a 15-mile stretch of high-tension wires outside Sheffield. Ray's crew of men are ...

Amistad

Amistad

1997

as Holabird

7.0
Acting

In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are th...

Bandyta

Bandyta

1997

as Sincai

5.8
Acting

Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but also discovers corruption inside the facility.

Sharpe: The Legend

Sharpe: The Legend

1997

as Hakeswill

6.0
Acting

Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn reminiscing about the brave and determined officer ...

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

1997

as Roland Tembo

6.6
Acting

Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing tha...

The Serpent's Kiss

The Serpent's Kiss

1997

as Thomas Smith

5.4
Acting

A man sends a young architect to build an extravagant garden to bankrupt the husband of the woman he once loved.

The Making of 'The Lost World'

The Making of 'The Lost World'

1997

as Self

6.8
Acting

Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of director Steven Spielberg's 1997 film "The Lost World."

Romeo + Juliet

Romeo + Juliet

1996

as Father Laurence

6.8
Acting

In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the...

Brassed Off

Brassed Off

1996

as Danny

7.0
Acting

A Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competiti...

Crimetime

Crimetime

1996

as Sidney

4.0
Acting

The star of a TV crime reenactment show becomes caught up in the mind of the killer he is playing.

DragonHeart

DragonHeart

1996

as Gilbert

6.5
Acting

In an ancient time when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, a knight named Bowen comes face to face and heart to heart with the last dra...

James and the Giant Peach

James and the Giant Peach

1996

as The Magic Man

6.6
Acting

When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strang...

When Saturday Comes

When Saturday Comes

1996

as Ken Jackson

5.7
Acting

Jimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working down the pit or in a factory. But Jimmy has other idea...

The Usual Suspects

The Usual Suspects

1995

as Kobayashi

8.2
Acting

Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also res...

Suite 16

Suite 16

1994

as Glover

6.0
Acting

After an argument and fight with a wealthy one night stand in a posh hotel, young hustler Chris finds himself trapped inside. With nowhere to go and t...

Sharpe's Enemy

Sharpe's Enemy

1994

as Obadiah Hakeswill

7.0
Acting

Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe's old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have captured two women, one the wife of a high-ranking English o...

Sharpe's Company

Sharpe's Company

1994

as Obadiah Hakeswill

6.7
Acting

Spain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from Sharpe's past uses a beautiful woman revenge himself on Sharp...

Sin Bin

Sin Bin

1994

as Mitch

Acting

A male nurse in a mental hospital witnesses one patient killing another, but struggles with his loyalties and his conscience to come forward.

In the Name of the Father

In the Name of the Father

1993

as Giuseppe Conlon

7.9
Acting

A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in ...

Anchoress

Anchoress

1993

as William Carpenter

6.0
Acting

A 16th-century peasant becomes transfixed by a statue of the Virgin Mary, and petitions to be walled into a cell attached to the church as a religious...

The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans

1992

as Captain Beams

7.4
Acting

In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a B...

Waterland

Waterland

1992

as Henry Crick

6.3
Acting

The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life i...

Alien³

Alien³

1992

as David

6.4
Acting

After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfo...

Split Second

Split Second

1992

as Paulsen

5.9
Acting

In a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner and has haunted him ever since — but he soon discove...

The Grass Arena

The Grass Arena

1992

as The Dipper

8.0
Acting

The Grass Arena is based on the autobiography of John Healy. Raised in an strongly religious family, with an abusive father, John soon learns that he ...

They Never Slept

They Never Slept

1991

as Panter

Acting

When plucky Corporal Pru Merriman reports to her superiors Monk and Bob for driving duty, she finds herself catapulted into the murky world of the Fre...

Mel Gibson Goes Back to School

Mel Gibson Goes Back to School

1991

as Player King (archive footage)

Acting

Mel Gibson teaches Hamlet to a group of high school drama students.

Hamlet

Hamlet

1990

as Player King

6.6
Acting

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.

A Box of Swan

1990

as Tony

Acting

A moving and unusual film about a young man who returns to his Liverpool roots for his father's funeral.

Kingdom Come

1990

as Keef

Acting

Keef owns a small seaside café. His comfortable routine with regular customer Wayne is disrupted by a confrontational punk girl who has seen something...

Needle

Needle

1990

as Paula's Father

10.0
Acting

Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmarish descent into intravenous heroin use and AIDS and...

Treasure Island

Treasure Island

1990

as George Merry

6.6
Acting

Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led...

The Dressmaker

The Dressmaker

1988

as Jack

4.0
Acting

In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affai...

Distant Voices, Still Lives

Distant Voices, Still Lives

1988

as Father

6.9
Acting

Siblings Maisie and Tony, along with their mother, gather for their sister Eileen's wedding. It is a joyous occasion, but through flashbacks, it becom...

To Kill a Priest

To Kill a Priest

1988

as Josef

5.9
Acting

A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.

Tumbledown

Tumbledown

1988

as Major (Rehabilitation Centre)

5.6
Acting

The film centers on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC, an officer of the Scots Guards during the Falklands War of 1982. While fighting at the Batt...

Coast to Coast

1987

as Kecks McGuinness

6.0
Acting

Two guys meet, one American, a deserter from the US army, one Brit, and they are drawn together by their mutual love of Soul music. Neither being gain...

Cyrano de Bergerac

1985

as Ragueneau

5.5
Acting

As incomparable in swordplay and wordplay as he is, the gallant soldier, philosopher, and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is as timid as a schoolboy before th...

A Private Function

A Private Function

1984

as Nuttol

6.3
Acting

In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Ch...

Fords on Water

Fords on Water

1983

as Winston's Boss

Acting

Influential, cult classic, UK buddy road movie about two friends, one white and one black, who bond over their desire to escape from boredom and unemp...

Strike: The Birth of Solidarity

Strike: The Birth of Solidarity

1981

as Ireneusz Lesniak

Acting

British TV Movie drama/documentary detailing the birth of Poland's Solidarity union

The Muscle Market

The Muscle Market

1981

as Danny Duggan

7.0
Acting

Danny Duggan runs a failing building contractors, and resorts to sub-gangster thuggery to keep the business afloat. However, with the bottom falling o...

Afternoon Off

Afternoon Off

1979

as Attendant in Art Gallery

Acting

Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested in...

Doris and Doreen

Doris and Doreen

1978

as Mr. Lomax

Acting

A series of pink forms has Doris and Doreen fearing for their cushy jobs.

The Duellists

The Duellists

1977

as Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard

7.3
Acting

In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perce...

The Paradise Run

1976

as Soldier

Acting

Johnny has joined the army because he likes canoeing, but ends up in a war-torn city and is compromised into helping the enemy. However, desertion wil...

Occupy!

Occupy!

1976

as Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool

Acting

Bill Nighy, Pete Postlewaite and (briefly) Julie Walters, then all of the Everyman Theatre Company, feature in this potent reportage/dramatisation hyb...

Thwum

Thwum

1975

as Duffy

Acting

Presumed lost after its initial broadcast in 1975, Thwum features a young Pete Postlethwaite in his earliest television appearance. This sci-fi themed...