Alan Bates
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1934-02-17
Day of Death
2003-12-27 (69 years old)
Place of Birth
Allestree, Derbyshire, England
Alan Bates
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.
Acting
(2020)
Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father
as Major James Prentis (archival footage)
(2018)
Nothing Like a Dame
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2011)
Discovering Hamlet
as Claudius (archive footage)
(2004)
Spartacus
as Antonius Agrippa
(2004)
Hollywood North
as Michael Baytes
(2003)
The Statement
as Armand Bertier
(2003)
(2002)
The Sum of All Fears
as Dressler
(2002)
The Mothman Prophecies
as Alexander Leek
(2002)
Evelyn
as Thomas Connolly
(2002)
Salem Witch Trials
as Sir William Phips
(2002)
Bertie and Elizabeth
as King George V
(2002)
The Making of 'Gosford Park'
as Self
(2001)
Gosford Park
as Jennings
(2001)
(2000)
The Prince and the Pauper
as Re Enrico VIII
(2000)
St. Patrick: The Irish Legend
as Calpornius
(1999)
The Cherry Orchard
as Gayev
(1998)
Nicholas’ Gift
as Reg Green
(1995)
The Grotesque
as Sir Hugo Coal
(1994)
Hard Times
as Josiah Bounderby
(1993)
Silent Tongue
as Eamon McCree
(1993)
Shuttlecock
as Major James Prentis VC
(1992)
Unnatural Pursuits
as Hamish Partt
(1992)
Losing Track
as Henry Sitchell
(1991)
Secret Friends
as John
(1991)
Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
as Claudius (archive footage)
(1990)
Hamlet
as Claudius
(1990)
Dr. M
as Dr, Marsfeldt / Guru
(1990)
Mister Frost
as Felix Detweiler
(1990)
102 Boulevard Haussmann
as Marcel Proust
(1989)
Uncontrollable Circumstances
as Malcolm Forrest
(1989)
The Dog It Was That Died
as Blair
(1988)
We Think the World of You
as Frank Meadows
(1988)
The Ray Bradbury Theater: And So Died Riabouchinska
as John Fabian
(1987)
A Prayer for the Dying
as Jack Meehan
(1987)
Pack of Lies
as Stewart
(1986)
Duet for One
as David Cornwallis
(1985)
Hands Up!
as Self (1981 footage)
(1985)
One for the Road
as Nicholas
(1984)
Dr. Fischer of Geneva
as Dr. Alfred Jones
(1984)
A Voyage Round My Father
as John Mortimer
(1983)
Separate Tables
as John Malcolm / Maj. Pollock
(1983)
The Return of the Soldier
as Captain Chris Baldry
(1983)
The Wicked Lady
as Captain Jerry Jackson
(1983)
An Englishman Abroad
as Guy Burgess
(1982)
Britannia Hospital
as Macready
(1981)
Quartet
as H.J. Heidler
(1981)
The Trespasser
as Siegmund
(1981)
Very Like a Whale
as Sir Jock Mellor
(1980)
Nijinsky
as Sergei Diaghilev
(1979)
The Rose
as Rudge Campbell
(1978)
The Shout
as Charles Crossley
(1978)
An Unmarried Woman
as Saul Kaplan
(1976)
The Collection
as James
(1975)
Royal Flash
as Rudi Von Sternberg
(1975)
In Celebration
as Andrew Shaw
(1975)
Two Sundays
as Charles
(1975)
Plaintiffs and Defendants
as Peter
(1974)
The Story of Jacob and Joseph
as Narrator (voice)
(1974)
Butley
as Ben Butley
(1973)
Impossible Object
as Harry
(1972)
Second Best
as Tom
(1972)
(1971)
The Go-Between
as Ted Burgess
(1970)
Three Sisters
as Col. Vershinin
(1969)
Women in Love
as Rupert Birkin
(1969)
(1968)
The Fixer
as Yakov Bok
(1967)
Far from the Madding Crowd
as Gabriel Oak
(1967)
Location: Far from the Madding Crowd
as Himself
(1966)
King of Hearts
as Charles Plumpick
(1966)
Georgy Girl
as Jos Jones
(1965)
Once Upon a Tractor
as Joe Turrel
(1964)
Zorba the Greek
as Basil
(1964)
The Caretaker
as Mick
(1964)
Nothing But the Best
as Jimmy Brewster
(1963)
The Running Man
as Stephen
(1962)
A Kind of Loving
as Victor Arthur 'Vic' Brown
(1961)
Whistle Down the Wind
as The Man, Arthur Alan Blakey
(1960)
The Entertainer
as Frank Rice
Crew
(1972)
Second Best
Producer