FrameThrower · Actors · Pete Postlethwaite
Pete Postlethwaite
10 films · 641 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1988–2010
Born 7 February 1946 · Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK · died 2 January 2011
Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE 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.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 10 films · 641 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1988–2010
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire2004
How their films are shot
Measured across 641 frames from the 10 films we hold. This is the look of the work Pete takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 10 films we hold, 45% of their frames are night, 49% low key — the look of the work Pete takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997 · Roland Tembo
Distant Voices, Still Lives
1988 · Father
The Town
2010 · Fergus "Fergie" Colm
Inception
2010 · Maurice Fischer
Dark Water
2005 · Veeck
Aeon Flux
2005 · Keeper
Amistad
1997 · Holabird
James and the Giant Peach
1996 · The Magic Man
Romeo + Juliet
1996 · Father Laurence
The Usual Suspects
· Kobayashi
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 641 frames from Pete Postlethwaite's 10 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.