Alan Bates
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.
Born: 17 February 1934 • Died: 27 December 2003
Played In
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
Archive
Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father
Major James Prentis (archival footage)
Nothing Like a Dame
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Discovering Hamlet
Claudius (archive footage)
The Graham Norton Show
Self
Spartacus
Antonius Agrippa
Spartacus
Antonius Agrippa
Hollywood North
Michael Baytes
The Statement
Armand Bertier
Meanwhile
Father Peter
Celebrity Naked Ambition
Self (archive footage)
Salem Witch Trials
Sir William Phips
Salem Witch Trials
Sir William Phips
Evelyn
Thomas Connolly
The Making of Gosford Park
Self
Bertie and Elizabeth
King George V
The Sum of All Fears
Dressler
The Mothman Prophecies
Alexander Leek
Gosford Park
Jennings
Love in a Cold Climate
Uncle Matthew
Anthony Quinn: The Final Words
Self
The Prince and the Pauper
Re Enrico VIII
In the Beginning
Jethro
Arabian Nights
Storyteller
St. Patrick: The Irish Legend
Calpornius
The Cherry Orchard
Gayev
Nicholas’ Gift
Reg Green
The Grotesque
Sir Hugo Coal
Oliver's Travels
Oliver
Hard Times
Josiah Bounderby
Hard Times
Josiah Bounderby
Silent Tongue
Eamon McCree
Shuttlecock
Major James Prentis VC
Unnatural Pursuits
Hamish Partt
Losing Track
Henry Sitchell
Unnatural Pursuits
Hamish Partt
Pebble Mill
Self
Secret Friends
John
Hamlet
Claudius
102 Boulevard Haussmann
Marcel Proust
Dr. M
Dr, Marsfeldt / Guru
Mister Frost
Felix Detweiler
Screen One
Henry Sitchell
Uncontrollable Circumstances
Malcolm Forrest
The Dog It Was That Died
Blair
We Think the World of You
Frank Meadows
The Ray Bradbury Theater: And So Died Riabouchinska
John Fabian
A Prayer for the Dying
Jack Meehan
Pack of Lies
Stewart
Duet for One
David Cornwallis
One for the Road
Nicholas
The Ray Bradbury Theater
John Fabian
Hands Up!
Self (1981 footage)
Screen Two
Marcel Proust
Dr. Fischer of Geneva
Dr. Alfred Jones
A Voyage Round My Father
John Mortimer
An Englishman Abroad
Guy Burgess
The Wicked Lady
Captain Jerry Jackson
The Return of the Soldier
Captain Chris Baldry
Separate Tables
John Malcolm / Maj. Pollock
Britannia Hospital
Macready
Quartet
H.J. Heidler
The Trespasser
Siegmund
Very Like a Whale
Sir Jock Mellor
Nijinsky
Sergei Diaghilev
The Rose
Rudge Campbell
The Shout
Charles Crossley
An Unmarried Woman
Saul Kaplan
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Michael Henchard
Laurence Olivier Presents
The Collection
James
Two Sundays
Charles
Plaintiffs and Defendants
Peter
Royal Flash
Rudi Von Sternberg
In Celebration
Andrew Shaw
The Story of Jacob and Joseph
Narrator (voice)
Butley
Ben Butley
Impossible Object
Harry
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Bri
Second Best
Tom
The Go-Between
Ted Burgess
Great Performances
James
Three Sisters
Col. Vershinin
Women in Love
Rupert Birkin
Look at Life: All in a Day's Work
Self
The Fixer
Yakov Bok
Location: Far from the Madding Crowd
Himself
Far from the Madding Crowd
Gabriel Oak
Lionpower from MGM
Self - Gabriel Oak (archive footage) (uncredited)
King of Hearts
Charles Plumpick
Georgy Girl
Jos Jones
Once Upon a Tractor
Joe Turrel
Zorba the Greek
Basil
The Wednesday Play
Grigor Pecharin
Nothing But the Best
Jimmy Brewster
The Caretaker
Mick
The Running Man
Stephen
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
A Kind of Loving
Victor Arthur 'Vic' Brown
Whistle Down the Wind
The Man, Arthur Alan Blakey
The Entertainer
Frank Rice
Armchair Theatre
Lewis Black
Armchair Theatre
Mario
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Stewart