Name
Alan Bates
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1934-02-17
Deathday
2003-12-27 (69 years old)
Place of Birth
Allestree, Derbyshire, England
Biography
Sir Alan Arthur Bates CBE (17 February 1934 – 27 December 2003) was an English actor, who came to prominence in the 1960s, a time of high creativity in British cinema, when he demonstrated his versatility in films ranging from the popular children’s story Whistle Down the Wind to the "kitchen sink" drama A Kind of Loving. He is also known for his tour-de-force with Anthony Quinn, Zorba the Greek, as well as his roles in King of Hearts, Georgy Girl, Far From the Madding Crowd, and The Fixer, which gave him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. In 1969, he starred in the Ken Russell film Women in Love with Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson. Bates went on to star in The Go-Between, An Unmarried Woman, Nijinsky, and The Rose with Bette Midler, as well as playing varied roles in television drama, including The Mayor of Casterbridge, Harold Pinter's The Collection, A Voyage Round My Father, An Englishman Abroad (as Guy Burgess), and Pack of Lies. He also continued to appear on the stage, notably in the plays of Simon Gray, such as Butley and Otherwise Engaged.
Known For
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When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown suc...
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An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life change...
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In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of ...
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Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror when fate draws him to th...
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Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirit...
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British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush...
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A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity a...
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Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large far...
- 1990 Hamlet as Claudius
- 1964 Zorba the Greek as Basil
- 1967 Far from the Madding Crowd as Gabriel Oak
- 2002 The Mothman Prophecies as Alexander Leek
- 2001 Gosford Park as Jennings
- 2018 Nothing Like a Dame as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2020 Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father as Major James Prentis (archival footage)
- 2004 Spartacus as Antonius Agrippa
- 1982 Britannia Hospital as Macready
- 1962 A Kind of Loving as Victor 'Vic' Brown
- 1961 Whistle Down the Wind as The Man, Arthur Alan Blakey
- 1987 A Prayer for the Dying as Jack Meehan
- 1990 Mr. Frost as Felix Detweiler
- 2003 The Statement as Armand Bertier
- 1990 Dr. M as Dr, Marsfeldt / Guru
- 1971 The Go-Between as Ted Burgess
- 1966 Georgy Girl as Jos Jones
- 2000 The Prince and the Pauper as Re Enrico VIII
- 1992 Losing Track as Henry Sitchell
- 1979 The Rose as Rudge Campbell
- 1978 An Unmarried Woman as Saul Kaplan
- 2002 Bertie and Elizabeth as King George V
- 1969 Women in Love as Rupert Birkin
- 1984 A Voyage Round My Father as John Mortimer
- 1981 Quartet as H.J. Heidler
- 1966 King of Hearts as Charles Plumpick
- 1995 The Grotesque as Sir Hugo Coal
- 1960 The Entertainer as Frank Rice
- 1986 Duet for One as David Cornwallis
- 1975 Royal Flash as Rudi Von Sternberg
- 2004 Hollywood North as Michael Baytes
- 1968 The Fixer as Yakov Bok
- 1964 The Caretaker as Mick
- 1972 A Day in the Death of Joe Egg as Bri
- 1991 Secret Friends as John
- 1988 We Think the World of You as Frank Meadows
- 1983 An Englishman Abroad as Guy Burgess
- 1983 The Wicked Lady as Captain Jerry Jackson
- 1964 Nothing But the Best as Jimmy Brewster
- 1983 Separate Tables as John Malcolm / Maj. Pollock
- 1963 The Running Man as Stephen
- 1994 Silent Tongue as Eamon McCree
- 1974 Butley as Ben Butley
- 1975 In Celebration as Andrew Shaw
- 1980 Nijinsky as Sergei Diaghilev
- 1976 The Collection as James
- 1985 One for the Road as Nicholas
- 1989 Uncontrollable Circumstances as Malcolm Forrest
- 1973 Impossible Object as Harry
- 1990 102 Boulevard Haussmann as Marcel Proust
- 1983 The Return of the Soldier as Captain Chris Baldry
- 2011 Discovering Hamlet as Claudius (archive footage)
- 1998 Nicholas’ Gift as Reg Green
- 1992 Unnatural Pursuits as Hamish Partt
- 1985 Hands Up! as Self (1981 footage)
- 1987 Pack of Lies as Stewart
- 1981 Very Like a Whale as Sir Jock Mellor
- 1970 Three Sisters as Col. Vershinin
- 1981 The Trespasser as Siegmund
- 2002 Evelyn as Thomas Connolly
- 1989 The Dog It Was That Died as Blair
- 2000 St. Patrick: The Irish Legend as Calpornius
- 1975 Two Sundays as Charles
- 1975 Plaintiffs and Defendants as Peter
- 2002 The Sum of All Fears as Dressler
- 1974 The Story of Jacob and Joseph as Narrator (voice)
- 1965 Once Upon a Tractor as Joe Turrel
- 2001 Anthony Quinn: The Final Words as Self
- 1972 Second Best as Tom
- 2003 Meanwhile as Father Peter
- 1999 The Cherry Orchard as Gayev
- 1993 Shuttlecock as Major James Prentis VC
- 1978 The Shout as Charles Crossley
- 1984 Dr. Fischer of Geneva as Dr. Alfred Jones
- 2002 The Making of Gosford Park as Self
- 1967 Location: Far from the Madding Crowd as Self
- 1969 Look at Life: All in a Day's Work as Self
- 1988 The Ray Bradbury Theater: And So Died Riabouchinska as John Fabian
- 1967 Lionpower from MGM as Self - Gabriel Oak (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2025 Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders as Archive
- 2003 Celebrity Naked Ambition as Self (archive footage)
- 1976 Laurence Olivier Presents ( 0 episode )
- 1985 The Ray Bradbury Theater ( 1 episode ) as John Fabian
- 1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame ( 1 episode ) as Stewart
- 1995 Oliver's Travels ( 5 episodes ) as Oliver
- 1991 Pebble Mill ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2000 Arabian Nights ( 2 episodes ) as Storyteller
- 1978 The Mayor of Casterbridge ( 7 episodes ) as Michael Henchard
- 2004 Spartacus ( 2 episodes ) as Antonius Agrippa
- 2000 In the Beginning ( 2 episodes ) as Jethro
- 2001 Love in a Cold Climate ( 2 episodes ) as Uncle Matthew
- 1971 Great Performances ( 1 episode ) as James
- 1994 Hard Times ( 4 episodes ) as Josiah Bounderby
- 1992 Unnatural Pursuits ( 2 episodes ) as Hamish Partt
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1956 Armchair Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Lewis Black
- 1956 Armchair Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Mario
- 2003 Salem Witch Trials ( 2 episodes ) as Sir William Phips
- 1989 Screen One ( 1 episode ) as Henry Sitchell
- 1985 Screen Two ( 1 episode ) as Marcel Proust
- 1964 The Wednesday Play ( 1 episode ) as Grigor Pecharin
- 1985 Summer Season ( 1 episode ) as Nicolas
