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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Killing Bono
2011
as Karl
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
2011
as Self
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
2010
as Fergus "Fergie" Colm
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
2010
as Maurice Fischer
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
2010
as Spyros
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
2009
as The Archivist
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
2009
as William Crowthorn
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
2009
as Self
An exploration of how the once taboo art form has become socially acceptable.

Clough: The Brian Clough Story
2009
as Narrator
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
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
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
2007
as Quinlan
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
2007
as Doc
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
2006
as Father Brennan
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
2006
as Albion Munson
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
2006
as Self
The Constant Gardener featurette.
Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water'
2005
as Self

Æon Flux
2005
as Keeper
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
2005
as Lorbeer
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
2005
as Veeck
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
2005
as Gold Commander
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
2004
as Gale
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
2004
as Russell McKenzie (taxman)
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
2003
as Arthur (voice)
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
2002
as Reid Braxton
"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
2002
as John
Three women confront their pasts which changes their futures.

Triggermen
2002
as Ben Cutler
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'
2002
as Kobayashi (archive footage)
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
2001
as Tert Card
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
2000
as Various Characters
The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.

Rat
2000
as Hubert Flynn
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
2000
as Martin Shaughnessy
Fact-based story about Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton, who invaded the Irish underworld and attempted to expose the illegitimate a...

Animal Farm
1999
as Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice)
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
1999
as Ben Alexander
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
1999
as Carpenter
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
1999
as Deric Longden
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
1999
as Uncle Reg Ryan
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.
1999
as Self
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
1998
as Ray
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
1997
as Holabird
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
1997
as Sincai
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
1997
as Hakeswill
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
1997
as Roland Tembo
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
1997
as Thomas Smith
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'
1997
as Self
Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of director Steven Spielberg's 1997 film "The Lost World."

Romeo + Juliet
1996
as Father Laurence
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
1996
as Danny
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
1996
as Sidney
The star of a TV crime reenactment show becomes caught up in the mind of the killer he is playing.

DragonHeart
1996
as Gilbert
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
1996
as The Magic Man
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
1996
as Ken Jackson
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
1995
as Kobayashi
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
1994
as Glover
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
1994
as Obadiah Hakeswill
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
1994
as Obadiah Hakeswill
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
1994
as Mitch
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
1993
as Giuseppe Conlon
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
1993
as William Carpenter
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
1992
as Captain Beams
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
1992
as Henry Crick
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
1992
as David
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
1992
as Paulsen
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
1992
as The Dipper
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
1991
as Panter
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
1991
as Player King (archive footage)
Mel Gibson teaches Hamlet to a group of high school drama students.

Hamlet
1990
as Player King
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
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
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
1990
as Paula's Father
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
1990
as George Merry
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
1988
as Jack
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
1988
as Father
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
1988
as Josef
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.

Tumbledown
1988
as Major (Rehabilitation Centre)
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
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
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
1984
as Nuttol
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
1983
as Winston's Boss
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
1981
as Ireneusz Lesniak
British TV Movie drama/documentary detailing the birth of Poland's Solidarity union

The Muscle Market
1981
as Danny Duggan
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
1979
as Attendant in Art Gallery
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
1978
as Mr. Lomax
A series of pink forms has Doris and Doreen fearing for their cushy jobs.

The Duellists
1977
as Orderly shaving Gen. Treillard
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
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!
1976
as Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
Bill Nighy, Pete Postlewaite and (briefly) Julie Walters, then all of the Everyman Theatre Company, feature in this potent reportage/dramatisation hyb...

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