Alan Bates
Acting
Born: February 17, 1934 · Allestree, Derbyshire, England
Died: December 27, 2003 (aged 69)
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
The Sum of All Fears
2002
The Mothman Prophecies
2002
Gosford Park
2001
Hamlet
1990
Zorba the Greek
1964
The Go-Between
1971
Women in Love
1969
The Rose
1979
The Shout
1978
A Prayer for the Dying
1987
Evelyn
2002
Far from the Madding Crowd
1967
Photos (5)
Movies (72)
The Sum of All Fears
Dressler
The Mothman Prophecies
Alexander Leek
Gosford Park
Jennings
Hamlet
Claudius
Women in Love
Rupert Birkin
Spartacus
Antonius Agrippa
Zorba the Greek
Basil
The Go-Between
Ted Burgess
A Prayer for the Dying
Jack Meehan
Evelyn
Thomas Connolly
The Wicked Lady
Captain Jerry Jackson
Far from the Madding Crowd
Gabriel Oak
An Unmarried Woman
Saul Kaplan
Discovering Hamlet
Claudius (archive footage)
Mr. Frost
Felix Detweiler
The Shout
Charles Crossley
The Running Man
Stephen
The Statement
Armand Bertier
Britannia Hospital
Macready
The Fixer
Yakov Bok
Georgy Girl
Jos Jones
Duet for One
David Cornwallis
Dr. M
Dr, Marsfeldt / Guru
The Grotesque
Sir Hugo Coal
The Rose
Rudge Campbell
Silent Tongue
Eamon McCree
Whistle Down the Wind
The Man, Arthur Alan Blakey
Royal Flash
Rudi Von Sternberg
The Collection
James
An Englishman Abroad
Guy Burgess
King of Hearts
Charles Plumpick
The Prince and the Pauper
Re Enrico VIII
Second Best
Tom
The Cherry Orchard
Gayev
The Return of the Soldier
Captain Chris Baldry
The Caretaker
Mick
Pack of Lies
Stewart
The Entertainer
Frank Rice
Uncontrollable Circumstances
Malcolm Forrest
Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father
Major James Prentis (archival footage)
The Story of Jacob and Joseph
Narrator (voice)
Three Sisters
Col. Vershinin
Secret Friends
John
Separate Tables
John Malcolm / Maj. Pollock
Nothing But the Best
Jimmy Brewster
Impossible Object
Harry
The Dog It Was That Died
Blair
A Kind of Loving
Victor 'Vic' Brown
Quartet
H.J. Heidler
102 Boulevard Haussmann
Marcel Proust
We Think the World of You
Frank Meadows
Bertie and Elizabeth
King George V
Hard Times
Josiah Bounderby
Nijinsky
Sergei Diaghilev
Hollywood North
Michael Baytes
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Bri
Very Like a Whale
Sir Jock Mellor
Nicholas’ Gift
Reg Green
Once Upon a Tractor
Joe Turrel
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
Archive
St. Patrick: The Irish Legend
Calpornius
Dr. Fischer of Geneva
Dr. Alfred Jones
Meanwhile
Father Peter
Shuttlecock
Major James Prentis VC
A Voyage Round My Father
John Mortimer
Butley
Ben Butley
Unnatural Pursuits
Hamish Partt
Losing Track
Henry Sitchell
In Celebration
Andrew Shaw
The Trespasser
Siegmund
The Ray Bradbury Theater: And So Died Riabouchinska
John Fabian
One for the Road
Nicholas
TV Shows (18)
Great Performances
James · 1 eps
The Wednesday Play
Grigor Pecharin · 1 eps
Screen Two
Marcel Proust · 1 eps
The Ray Bradbury Theater
John Fabian · 1 eps
Screen One
Henry Sitchell · 1 eps
Arabian Nights
Storyteller · 2 eps
Spartacus
Antonius Agrippa · 2 eps
Laurence Olivier Presents
1976
In the Beginning
Jethro · 2 eps
Oliver's Travels
Oliver · 5 eps
Love in a Cold Climate
Uncle Matthew · 2 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Stewart · 1 eps
Salem Witch Trials
Sir William Phips · 2 eps
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Michael Henchard · 7 eps
Unnatural Pursuits
Hamish Partt · 2 eps
Hard Times
Josiah Bounderby · 4 eps
Armchair Theatre
Lewis Black · 1 eps
Armchair Theatre
Mario · 1 eps
Self / Appearances (8)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · 1 eps
Celebrity Naked Ambition
Self (archive footage)
Nothing Like a Dame
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lionpower from MGM
Self - Gabriel Oak (archive footage) (uncredited)
Anthony Quinn: The Final Words
Self
The Making of Gosford Park
Self
Hands Up!
Self (1981 footage)
Look at Life: All in a Day's Work
Self