He had a wife and two children. With Sean Bean, Pete Postlethwaite, Daragh O'Malley, Hugh Fraser. On stage, he performed with such prestigious groups as the Manchester Royal Exchange and the Liverpool Everyman, as well as the Royal Shakespeare Company. 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. And yet, behind the bravado, all was not as it seemed with Brand, and the inner darkness soon made itself apparent...Swashbuckling action starring the brooding Sean Bean as Bernard Cornwell's sergeant.A strikingly youthful Daniel Craig showed his nasty side as Lieutenant Berry. In 1813, a band of deserters, British, French, and others, led by Sharpe's nemesis Obadiah Hakeswill (Pete Postlethwaite) and a French renegade named Pot-au-Feu (Tony Haygarth), takes over a Portuguese village.Lady Isabella (Elizabeth Hurley), the wife of Sir Augustus Farthingdale (Jeremy Child), the English military envoy to Portugal, is taken captive. His supporting roles becoming ever more prominant as the decade wore on, Postlethwaite navigated multiple genres with ease by turning up as a crusty building supervisor in the psychological horror thriller Dark Water, the keeper of a great conspiracy in the sci-fi action entry Æon Flux, and a shady drug company man in The Constant Gardener, a dramatic thriller detailing a determined widower's efforts to solve the mystery of his wife's murder.
Later that same year, Postlethwaite set sail with Spielberg one again, only this time in decidedly more grim capacity, in the historical slave drama Amistad. The sheer acting intensity of the great Pete Postlethwaite was put to perfect use in the role of Obadiah Hakeswill.
Keksijä Itä-Virossa selvittiin kevään koronakriisistä kohtalaisen hyvin. Michael Postlethwaite, Patricia Postlethwaite, Anne PostlethwaiteFind out more about Pete PostlethwaitePostlethwaite was born in Warrington, England in 1946. For this, he earnt not only Sharpe's respect, but the awe of the whole army. He trained as a teacher and taught drama before training as an actor. After minor television appearances, including in The Professionals, his first major success arose through the British autobiographical film Distant Voices, Still Lives. 25 hrs. One of his delusions was that he believed he couldn't be killed. Ravishingly beautiful (and played by a young Elizabeth Hurley), her looks had propelled her from a humble background to the most lavish, gilded echelons of high society.
Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill is a recurring villain from Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe novel series and its subsequent television adaptations. Product details Actors: Sean Bean , Assumpta Serna , Pete Postlethwaite , Brian Cox , Daragh O'Malley He didn't suffer fools gladly ("Take my advice, and a pistol, and go behind that tent to blow out what's left of your brains") and was also suitably impressed by Sharpe's fighting skills, warning one of Richard's rivals: "Sharpe would have shot out your left eye at a minute past six, and you'd have spent all day tomorrow looking up at nothing with the other."
Pete Postlethwaite : biography 16 February 1945 – 2 January 2011 One of his more notable roles was as antagonist Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill in ITV’s Sharpe series, which starred Sean Bean. But just what were those concerns? We first met Colonel Brand in a flashback sequence, showing an early skirmish he fought alongside Sharpe. Played by the dark-haired and doe-eyed James Purefoy, he had a kind of melancholy, Byronic magnetism, like someone whose mind was forever soaring above the battlefield to loftier concerns.
Directed by Tom Clegg. As you can imagine, Sharpe didn't take very kindly to this foppish prince parading around the battlefield and putting crucial skirmishes in jeapordy - especially as the war against Napoleon nears its grand finale.
A gruff, no-nonsense soldier with a taste for taking snuff and deploying witty put-downs of the more hapless members of his circle, Hogan was one of Britain's intelligence operatives during the war, and entangled Sharpe in his various schemes.
Fast-moving, hard-hitting adventure, Sharpe brings to the screen all the danger, romance and sheer spectacle of one of the bloodiest periods in English warfare.
Not that Berry minded - he looked down on Sharpe for his "low birth", and deliberately provoked our hero by behaving in a nasty way to a woman under Sharp's protection. "My fame follows me like a bucket tied to a dog's tail," he mused. Once a working girl, she went from "a whore to a duchess" after catching the eye of Sir Augustus Farthingdale, who mistakenly believed her to be a high-born lady. Postlethwaite has said that this was one of his favourite roles and that he and Sean played so well off each other because of […] Well, that's what a ravishing appearance and exquisite command of etiquette will do for you. The rivalry between the two men featured a memorable fist fight, but the only real reckoning only came on the battlefield, while they were supposed to be fighting on the same side...The sheer acting intensity of the great Pete Postlethwaite was put to perfect use in the role of Obadiah Hakeswill.