Name
Michael Bates
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1920-12-04
Deathday
1978-01-11 (58 years old)
Place of Birth
Jhansi, British India (now Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India)
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michael Hammond Bates was an Indian-born English actor. He was educated at Uppingham School in Rutland and St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
Bates served as a Major serving with the Brigade of Gurkhas in Burma before his discharge at the end of World War II. In 1953, while an ensemble member with the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario, he appeared in Richard III and All's Well That End's Well. In 1956 he appeared in Hotel Paradiso which starred Alec Guinness, at the Winter Garden Theatre in London.
He appeared in many UK television series including Last of the Summer Wine from 1973 to 1975 as Cyril Blamire and It Ain't Half Hot Mum from 1974 to 1977 as Rangi Ram, as well as many others. His role as Rangi Ram caused some controversy as it required Bates to be made-up with fake tan to look like an Indian, which he took to naturally as he was born in India and spoke the Hindi language fluently. On radio he played a variety of characters in the BBC's long-running comedy series The Navy Lark. These were: Able Seaman Ginger, Lt. Bates, Rear Admiral Ironbridge, the Padre and Captain Ignatius Aloysius Atchison.
Bates' film roles include Battle of Britain (1969) as Warrant Officer Warwick, Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) as a Lance-corporal, Patton (1970) as Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery (to whom he bore a striking resemblance), Frenzy (1972) by Alfred Hitchcock, and the Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange (1971). On stage, he did Shakespeare at Stratford and the Old Vic and made a big impression as Inspector Truscott in the West End production of Loot by Joe Orton in 1966. He died of cancer in Cambridge, aged 57.
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Known For
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- 1971 A Clockwork Orange as Chief Guard
- 1970 Patton as Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery
- 1969 Oh! What a Lovely War as Drunk Lance Corporal
- 1969 Battle of Britain as Warrant Officer Warwick
- 1968 Salt & Pepper as Inspector Crabbe
- 1966 Macready's Gala as Mike MacFarland
- 1969 Sling Your Hook as Joe
- 1967 Bedazzled as Inspector Clarke
- 1954 The Stratford Adventure as Self
- 1968 Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush as Mr. McGregor
- 1968 Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River as Dr. Spink
- 1969 Arthur? Arthur! as Mr. Harrington
- 1978 Hokusai: An Animated Sketchbook as Narrator
- 1977 Gulliver's Travels as (voice)
- 1968 Hammerhead as Andreas / Sir Richard
- 1969 Male of the Species as Fred
- 1959 I'm All Right Jack as Bootle
- 1965 A Passage to India as Professor Godbole
- 1968 The Brahmin Widow as Mr. Ambekar
- 1972 The Stone Tape as Eddie Holmes
- 1958 Dunkirk as Froome
- 1973 No Sex Please - We're British as Mr. Arnold Needham
- 1976 The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones as Madman
- 1970 Every Home Should Have One as Magistrate
- 1971 The Fox Trot as Arthur
- 1972 Frenzy as DS Spearman
- 1970 The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer as Mr. Spimm
- 1954 Carrington V.C. as Major Broke-Smith
- 1956 The Spanish Gardener as Consular Official (uncredited)
- 1955 Quay South as Captain Alan Gerald
- 1958 A Midsummer Night's Dream as Starveling
- 1974 It Ain't Half Hot Mum ( 56 episodes ) as Rangi Ram
- 1971 Jason King ( 1 episode )
- 1973 Last of the Summer Wine ( 14 episodes ) as Cyril Blamire
- 1962 The Saint ( 1 episode ) as Joe
- 1958 Ivanhoe ( 1 episode ) as Will The Simple
- 1971 The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes ( 1 episode ) as Colonel Sandstream
- 1959 No Hiding Place ( 1 episode )
- 1974 Fall of Eagles ( 2 episodes ) as Von Ludendorff
- 1967 Man in a Suitcase ( 1 episode ) as Delacroix
- 1965 BBC Play of the Month ( 1 episode ) as Professor Godbole
- 1963 The Dick Emery Show ( 161 episodes )
- 1964 Cluff ( 20 episodes ) as Inspector Mole
- 1968 Cilla ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1969 Male of the Species ( 1 episode ) as Fred
- 1968 Ooh La La! ( 1 episode ) as Vatelin
- 1965 Public Eye ( 1 episode ) as George
- 1964 The Wednesday Play ( 1 episode ) as Joe
- 1956 Armchair Theatre ( 1 episode )
- 1971 Budgie ( 1 episode ) as Minces Nutty
- 1970 The Misfit ( 1 episode ) as Sgt. Wilfreds
- 1964 Theatre 625 ( 1 episode ) as Shpichelsky
- 1964 Thursday Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Tommy
- 1950 Sunday Night Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Starveling
- 1971 Six Dates with Barker ( 1 episode ) as Gasman
- 1959 The Four Just Men ( 1 episode ) as Corporal Bates
- 1967 ITV Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Mr. Ambekar
- 1967 ITV Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Harold Radcliff
- 1969 ITV Saturday Night Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Fred
- 1969 ITV Saturday Night Theatre ( 1 episode ) as George
- 1964 The Wednesday Play ( 1 episode ) as Mike MacFarland
- 1964 The Wednesday Play ( 1 episode ) as Tommy
- 1965 Thirty-Minute Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Captain Gambell
- 1965 Thirty-Minute Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Mr. Lightfoot
