Alan Bates

Birthday:

02/17/1934

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.



Credits

Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father (2020)
Major James Prentis (archival footage)
Nothing Like a Dame (2018)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Discovering Hamlet (2011)
Claudius (archive footage)
An Englishman Abroad (2009)
Guy Burgess
Spartacus (2004)
Antonius Agrippa
Hollywood North (2004)
Michael Baytes
The Statement (2003)
Armand Bertier
Meanwhile (2003)
Salem Witch Trials (2002)
Sir William Phips
Evelyn (2002)
Thomas Connolly
Bertie and Elizabeth (2002)
King George V
The Making of 'Gosford Park' (2002)
Self
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
Dressler
The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
Alexander Leek
Gosford Park (2001)
Jennings
Anthony Quinn: The Final Words (2001)
Himself
The Prince and the Pauper (2000)
Re Enrico VIII
St. Patrick: The Irish Legend (2000)
Calpornius
The Cherry Orchard (1999)
Gayev
Nicholas’ Gift (1998)
Reg Green
The Grotesque (1995)
Sir Hugo Coal
Hard Times (1994)
Josiah Bounderby
Shuttlecock (1993)
Major James Prentis VC
Silent Tongue (1993)
Eamon McCree
Losing Track (1992)
Henry Sitchell
Unnatural Pursuits (1992)
Hamish Partt
Secret Friends (1991)
John
Hamlet (1990)
Claudius
102 Boulevard Haussmann (1990)
Marcel Proust
Dr. M (1990)
Dr, Marsfeldt / Guru
Mister Frost (1990)
Felix Detweiler
Uncontrollable Circumstances (1989)
Malcolm Forrest
The Dog It Was That Died (1989)
Blair
We Think the World of You (1988)
Frank Meadows
A Prayer for the Dying (1987)
Jack Meehan
Pack of Lies (1987)
Stewart
Duet for One (1986)
David Cornwallis
One for the Road (1985)
Nicholas
Hands Up! (1985)
Self (1981 footage)
Dr. Fischer of Geneva (1984)
Dr. Alfred Jones
A Voyage Round My Father (1984)
John Mortimer
The Wicked Lady (1983)
Captain Jerry Jackson
The Return of the Soldier (1983)
Captain Chris Baldry
Separate Tables (1983)
John Malcolm / Maj. Pollock
Britannia Hospital (1982)
Macready
Quartet (1981)
H.J. Heidler
The Trespasser (1981)
Siegmund
Very Like a Whale (1981)
Sir Jock Mellor
Nijinsky (1980)
Sergei Diaghilev
The Rose (1979)
Rudge Campbell
The Shout (1978)
Charles Crossley
An Unmarried Woman (1978)
Saul Kaplan
The Collection (1976)
James
Two Sundays (1975)
Charles
Plaintiffs and Defendants (1975)
Peter
Royal Flash (1975)
Rudi Von Sternberg
In Celebration (1975)
Andrew Shaw
The Story of Jacob and Joseph (1974)
Narrator (voice)
Butley (1974)
Ben Butley
Story of a Love Story (1973)
Harry
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972)
Bri
Second Best (1972)
Tom
The Go-Between (1971)
Ted Burgess
Three Sisters (1970)
Col. Vershinin
Women in Love (1969)
Rupert Birkin
The Fixer (1968)
Yakov Bok
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
Gabriel Oak
King of Hearts (1966)
Charles Plumpick
Georgy Girl (1966)
Jos Jones
Once Upon a Tractor (1965)
Joe Turrel
Zorba the Greek (1964)
Basil
Nothing But the Best (1964)
Jimmy Brewster
The Caretaker (1964)
Mick
The Running Man (1963)
Stephen
A Kind of Loving (1962)
Victor Arthur 'Vic' Brown
Whistle Down the Wind (1961)
The Man, Arthur Alan Blakey
The Entertainer (1960)
Frank Rice
Second Best (1972)
Producer