Pete Postlethwaite

Pete Postlethwaite (b. 1945) is a British character actor who appeared in the Creature Shop productions Alice in Wonderland (as the carpenter), Animal Farm (doubling as farmer Jones and the voice of Benjamin the donkey), and Rat (as Hubert).

A veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Postlethwaite has appeared in several cinematic Shakespeare adaptations, including Mel Gibson's 1989 version of Hamlet (as the player king} and Romeo + Juliet (as Father Laurence). Other films include the comedy Brassed Off, Last of the Mohicans, The Usual Suspects (as Kobayashi), Dragonheart, and in 2006, Amistad, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, and the [[2006 version of  The Omen.