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Killing Bono

as Karl

2011
Clash of the Titans

as Spyros

2010
The Town

as Fergus "Fergie" Colm

2010
Inception

as Maurice Fischer

2010
The Age of Stupid

as The Archivist

2009
Solomon Kane

as William Crowthorn

2009
Closing the Ring

as Quinlan

2007
Ghost Son

as Doc

2008
The Omen

as Father Brennan

2006
The Constant Gardener

as Lorbeer

2005
Æon Flux

as Keeper

2005
Dark Water

as Veeck

2005
Red Mercury

as Gold Commander

2005
Strange Bedfellows

as Russell McKenzie (taxman)

2004
Gone Dark

as Gale Carmody

2004
Triggermen

as Ben Cutler

2002
Between Strangers

as John

2002
Cowboy Up

as Reid Braxton

2002
The Shipping News

as Tert Card

2001
Rat

as Hubert Flynn

2001
Sins

as Len Green

2000
When the Sky Falls

as Martin Shaughnessy

2000
Animal Farm

as Benjamin (voice) / Farmer Jones (voice)

1999
Among Giants

as Ray

1998
The Lost World: Jurassic Park

as Roland Tembo

1997
Bandyta

as Sincai

1997
Amistad

as Holabird

1997
Romeo + Juliet

as Father Laurence

1996
When Saturday Comes

as Ken Jackson

1996
DragonHeart

as Gilbert

1996
Pete Postlethwaite Pete Postlethwaite

Birthday

1945-02-07

Place of Birth

Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK

Biography

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 Obadiah Hakeswill in the Sharpe television series and television movies opposite actor Sean Bean's character of Richard Sharpe. Postlethwaite was born in Warrington, England in 1946. He trained as a teacher and taught drama before training as an actor. Steven Spielberg called Postlethwaite "the best actor in the world" after working with him on The Lost World: Jurassic Park. He received an Academy Award nomination for his role in In the Name of the Father in 1993, and was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2004 New Year's Honours List. He died of pancreatic cancer on 2 January 2011. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pete Postlethwaite, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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