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 (71)
The Sum of All Fears
Dressler
Zorba the Greek
Basil
The Mothman Prophecies
Alexander Leek
Gosford Park
Jennings
Women in Love
Rupert Birkin
The Go-Between
Ted Burgess
A Prayer for the Dying
Jack Meehan
An Unmarried Woman
Saul Kaplan
Hamlet
Claudius
Evelyn
Thomas Connolly
Far from the Madding Crowd
Gabriel Oak
Georgy Girl
Jos Jones
Nijinsky
Sergei Diaghilev
Spartacus
Antonius Agrippa
The Running Man
Stephen
Duet for One
David Cornwallis
The Statement
Armand Bertier
The Shout
Charles Crossley
Nothing But the Best
Jimmy Brewster
Britannia Hospital
Macready
The Wicked Lady
Captain Jerry Jackson
Silent Tongue
Eamon McCree
Whistle Down the Wind
The Man, Arthur Alan Blakey
King of Hearts
Charles Plumpick
The Story of Jacob and Joseph
Narrator (voice)
Royal Flash
Rudi Von Sternberg
Mr. Frost
Felix Detweiler
Hollywood North
Michael Baytes
Pack of Lies
Stewart
The Return of the Soldier
Captain Chris Baldry
The Collection
James
The Rose
Rudge Campbell
Dr. M
Dr, Marsfeldt / Guru
Uncontrollable Circumstances
Malcolm Forrest
A Kind of Loving
Victor 'Vic' Brown
Impossible Object
Harry
Shuttlecock: Sins of a Father
Major James Prentis (archival footage)
We Think the World of You
Frank Meadows
Quartet
H.J. Heidler
St. Patrick: The Irish Legend
Calpornius
Butley
Ben Butley
Secret Friends
John
Bertie and Elizabeth
King George V
The Fixer
Yakov Bok
The Prince and the Pauper
Re Enrico VIII
Separate Tables
John Malcolm / Maj. Pollock
The Grotesque
Sir Hugo Coal
Very Like a Whale
Sir Jock Mellor
An Englishman Abroad
Guy Burgess
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Bri
The Entertainer
Frank Rice
In Celebration
Andrew Shaw
Three Sisters
Col. Vershinin
Once Upon a Tractor
Joe Turrel
Second Best
Tom
The Cherry Orchard
Gayev
The Caretaker
Mick
102 Boulevard Haussmann
Marcel Proust
Dr. Fischer of Geneva
Dr. Alfred Jones
Nicholas’ Gift
Reg Green
Discovering Hamlet
Claudius (archive footage)
The Dog It Was That Died
Blair
A Voyage Round My Father
John Mortimer
Losing Track
Henry Sitchell
One for the Road
Nicholas
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
Archive
Shuttlecock
Major James Prentis VC
Meanwhile
Father Peter
The Trespasser
Siegmund
The Ray Bradbury Theater: And So Died Riabouchinska
John Fabian
Unnatural Pursuits
Hamish Partt
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
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Stewart · 1 eps
In the Beginning
Jethro · 2 eps
Spartacus
Antonius Agrippa · 2 eps
Laurence Olivier Presents
1976
Love in a Cold Climate
Uncle Matthew · 2 eps
Oliver's Travels
Oliver · 5 eps
Salem Witch Trials
Sir William Phips · 2 eps
Armchair Theatre
Lewis Black · 1 eps
Armchair Theatre
Mario · 1 eps
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Michael Henchard · 7 eps
Hard Times
Josiah Bounderby · 4 eps
Unnatural Pursuits
Hamish Partt · 2 eps
Self / Appearances (8)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · 1 eps
Nothing Like a Dame
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Celebrity Naked Ambition
Self (archive footage)
Hands Up!
Self (1981 footage)
Lionpower from MGM
Self - Gabriel Oak (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Making of Gosford Park
Self
Anthony Quinn: The Final Words
Self
Look at Life: All in a Day's Work
Self