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