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