Alan Bates
Acting
🎂 1934-02-17
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.
Cast credits(96)
Self
1962
Self
2007
James
1971
John Fabian
1985
Self
1991
Stewart
1951
Antonius Agrippa
2004
Michael Henchard
1978
Oliver
1995
Dressler
2002
Jethro
2000
Storyteller
2000
Hamish Partt
1992
Basil
1964
1976
Alexander Leek
2002
Jennings
2001
Uncle Matthew
2001
Antonius Agrippa
2004
Gabriel Oak
1967
Josiah Bounderby
1994
Thomas Connolly
2002
Armand Bertier
2003
Frank Rice
1960
Sir William Phips
2002
Claudius
1990
Self
2002
Ted Burgess
1971
Captain Chris Baldry
1983
Charles Plumpick
1966
Stephen
1963
Macready
1982
Jack Meehan
1987
Rupert Birkin
1969
Captain Jerry Jackson
1983
Saul Kaplan
1978
H.J. Heidler
1981
Rudge Campbell
1979
Narrator (voice)
1974
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2018
Re Enrico VIII
2000
Charles Crossley
1978
Rudi Von Sternberg
1975
Felix Detweiler
1990
Malcolm Forrest
1989
Yakov Bok
1968
Sir Hugo Coal
1995
Jimmy Brewster
1964
Jos Jones
1966
Sergei Diaghilev
1980
Mick
1964
Col. Vershinin
1970
Victor Arthur 'Vic' Brown
1962
Reg Green
1998
Gayev
1999
Claudius (archive footage)
2011
Eamon McCree
1993
Dr, Marsfeldt / Guru
1990
Andrew Shaw
1975
Harry
1973
Calpornius
2000
The Man, Arthur Alan Blakey
1961
King George V
2002
Josiah Bounderby
1994
David Cornwallis
1986
Frank Meadows
1988
Stewart
1987
Guy Burgess
1983
John Malcolm / Maj. Pollock
1983
James
1976
Major James Prentis VC
1993
Ben Butley
1974
Michael Baytes
2004
Dr. Alfred Jones
1984
John
1991
Major James Prentis (archival footage)
2020
Claudius (archive footage)
1991
Self (1981 footage)
1985
Joe Turrel
1965
Bri
1972
Marcel Proust
1990
Self
2001
2003
Hamish Partt
1992
Blair
1989
Henry Sitchell
1992
Siegmund
1981
Nicholas
1985
John Mortimer
1984
Peter
1975
Tom
1972
Charles
1975
Self
1969
Himself
1967
Sir Jock Mellor
1981
John Fabian
1988